June is Pride Month! It’s a time when Boston and many other cities around the country hold pride parades to celebrate LGBTQIA+ experiences. June 28th marks an anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, which led to the first pride marches around the country to mobilize gay rights... Read the rest of this entry »

Mugar Memorial Library will be open 24 hours per day beginning at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, through 11 p.m. Friday, May 12, 2023. The BU Libraries will provide a late-night campus shuttle for students between midnight – 6 a.m. beginning at 12 a.m. May 4.  The shuttle will... Read the rest of this entry »

The BU Libraries is hosting a Research Help pop-up station during the last full week of classes to answer questions and provide research support. The Ask-A-Librarian Pop Up will be staffed by librarians ready to answer research questions and help students make the most out of the resources available to... Read the rest of this entry »

Shake off those winter blues and spring into Spring at Pickering Library! Spring is the season of growth, renewal, and blossoming. Our featured books touch on these topics through a variety of ways. We are also offering free coloring pages for our patrons to color in as they celebrate the warmer... Read the rest of this entry »

Librarians at Brigham Young University created a video that nicely points out how students can learn to evaluate different types of information sources. This includes peer-reviewed and scholarly sources, which are often conflated as being one and the same. You can also find more tips on how to evaluate sources in... Read the rest of this entry »

  The African Studies Library at the BU Libraries houses collections by and about women within African Studies. We are highlighting some of these collections through the month of March in honor of Women’s History Month. Care to learn more? Stop by the African Studies Library on the 6th floor of... Read the rest of this entry »

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database contains records of literature and other material useful for K-12 teaching, counseling, administration, higher education, public policy, and other areas within education. The “thesaurus” section is a guide to the standardized education-related subject headings used across the records, and those standardized headings are also... Read the rest of this entry »

The film Merchants of Doubt is part of the BU Libraries Academic Video Online database. It examines the process of determining scientific policy in the United States, and highlights how that process sometimes gets warped by lobbyists and pundits-for-hire. Merchants of Doubt is of value to science educators who go on to... Read the rest of this entry »

The National Science Digital Library is an excellent site that provides plenty of lesson plans, information on educational standards (including the Common Core), and Science Literacy Maps. Their lesson plans are often available in multiple translations to support students in many languages.  It was produced by funding from multiple grants from... Read the rest of this entry »

Boston University Libraries are excited to announce the appointment of Dawn E. Gross to the position of Associate University Librarian for Planning & Operations. Gross begins her appointment January 1, 2023. Reporting to University Librarian ad interim Mark Newton, Gross will direct the library’s core administrative and operational programs, providing strategic... Read the rest of this entry »