This month the Pickering Library is featuring a display with resources related to Black History. Our entrance display is a collaboration between students, staff, librarians, and faculty highlighting some books that have won the Children's Africana Book Awards (CABA). Members of the Teaching Africa Library and the Pickering Library have put... Read the rest of this entry »

Did you set a New Year’s resolution to improve your study habits, find better schoolwork-life balance, or develop new research skills? The BU Libraries’ expert librarians and our array of resources can help you achieve many of your academic-related goals. To help you find the tools that meet your needs, we’ve... Read the rest of this entry »

The Boston University Libraries have hired and promoted librarians into new roles that will strengthen the Libraries’ ongoing work supporting the University’s robust research and learning agendas and fostering a vibrant academic experience for all BU community members. Kristina Bush has joined the BU Libraries as the Library Experience Manager. In... Read the rest of this entry »

The BU Libraries’ Mugar Memorial Library will be open 24 hours per day beginning at 7 a.m. Tuesday, December 12, until 11 p.m. on Thursday, December 21, in order to support students during Boston University’s study period and final exams. During these extended hours, the BU Libraries will provide a late-night... Read the rest of this entry »

Need help with that research paper? Have questions about citations? Hope to build your research skills? The BU Libraries, in partnership with the Educational Resource Center, are hosting a research help pop-up for students to ask questions about the research process, learn about resources and tools, and to troubleshoot issues as... Read the rest of this entry »

The BU Libraries have entered an agreement with Cambridge University Press to cover open access publishing costs for Boston University-affiliated authors publishing in assorted journals.  Although authors are occasionally required to pay a publication fee to make the published version open access, publishers may waive these costs for BU authors when... Read the rest of this entry »

The BU Libraries’ Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center has curated two new archival exhibitions that provide glimpses into the history of BU, America and the world, and encourage the BU community to discover new connections through the archival materials on display. While both exhibitions enable visitors to consider historic moments... Read the rest of this entry »

The BU Libraries are celebrating International Open Access Week (October 23-29) by highlighting library services that support the global reach of scholarship produced at BU and by sharing the variety of works available in BU’s digital institutional repository. To support the university’s commitment to “disseminating the fruits of its research and... Read the rest of this entry »

Faculty, are you getting ready for the new semester? The library is looking to help. See our faculty services just for you, including librarian-led class instruction and course reserves among others.  For course reserves, the time is now to get your needed materials to us, so that if we have... Read the rest of this entry »

The BU Libraries recently hosted an immersive two-day copyright workshop to provide university staff a stronger foundational understanding of copyright and to foster collaboration across departments. The Copyright First Responders Workshop, was taught by Kyle K. Courtney, a lawyer and librarian serving as the Copyright Advisor for Harvard University. He... Read the rest of this entry »