July 3rd-4th celebrations initiate a wave of free summer events. Guides prepared by BU's Office for the Arts, NEMLA (NE chapter of the Music Library Association), and Berklee offer up multiple possibilities. For instance: the beautiful group Sons of Serendip, friends who came together while in grad school at BU, Read the rest of this entry »

Newly available on the Pickering Educational Resources Library website: a central location to access Handbooks on various topics in Education. The new page contains accessible eBooks and also highlights print books. Hover your mouse over a book cover to see a popup of the book's title. Clicking on an eBook... Read the rest of this entry »

New eBook Available: OECD Skills Outlook 2015: Youth, Skills and Employability According to this work "one in four 16-29 year-olds is neither employed nor in education or training".  Focused on international trends and policies affecting the labor market, this book is an excellent source for comparative international statistics on education. The Skills... Read the rest of this entry »

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an amazing collection of material from all over the country.  This engaging site can be enjoyed by exploring various places or time periods, or simply by browsing their wonderful exhibitions. Not to be missed is the exhibit featuring Boston Sports Temples, as... Read the rest of this entry »

Not all important databases are available through Google, and many do not use a similar search algorithm. There are real differences in the way scholarly literature databases are structured, and the distinctions are important. Knowing these details makes it possible to search in advanced ways. Spending time with a librarian now... Read the rest of this entry »

The Journal of the American Revolution is a visually-engaging free resource that features scholarship, interviews, book reviews, and other media.  History teachers can use this material in classrooms to captivate students with the stories and scholarship on this important period of America's past. The Mythbuster section brings the reader up to... Read the rest of this entry »

Library PressDisplay is a subscription database that scans papers from all over the world and presents them in full-color and full-page format. Titles from the United States include the Boston Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Post. International titles include the Jerusalem Post, Metro... Read the rest of this entry »

The US Census Bureau has made several data visualizations available on their website. Visitors will be able to quickly scan the page for ready-made visualizations such as Differential City Growth Patterns and Without a High School Education. The Population Bracketology visualization can be used as a game that tests knowledge... Read the rest of this entry »

Featured eBook Research Perspectives and Best Practices in Educational Technology Integration Jared Keengwe, 2013 This book features 16 chapters on the many ways that teachers and students engage with new technologies.  Some chapters focus on aspects within higher education (e.g. "Using Social Media to Enhance Instruction in Higher Education") while others address K-12... Read the rest of this entry »

    The African Studies Library was very pleased to host his excellency Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister of Kenya for a brief visit and tour this morning.  He was particularly interested in the library's collections of Kenyan government documents, maps, and Luo texts, including folktales and stories that he recalled from... Read the rest of this entry »