Funding available for Humanities-related library materials
The Boston University Center for the Humanities and BU Libraries are partnering to create a new streamlined library acquisitions process. Students and faculty can now suggest resources directly to the library acquisitions staff for humanities-related library materials. The Center for the Humanities has several funds for purchasing new library materials to support Humanities research at […]
Help the Libraries improve research guides
Have you used a Library Research Guide in the past academic year? What did you think? We want to know, so we can make them better. What are Library Research Guides? Library Research Guides are digital tools curated by BU librarians to assist with a specific course, topic, or field of study. To see an example, […]
From BU Today: New University Librarian Aims to Create the Library of the Future, With the Community’s Help
By Cody Mello-Klein For Kate Donovan, all roads lead to the library. As a child, Donovan would visit her local library and emerge carrying a stack of books as tall as she was. But she never imagined that years later, she would be working in libraries—let alone leading them. This year, after more than a […]
Pardee Library: Supporting Your Success
Welcome, new and returning students! Pardee Library is here to help you start the semester strong: research support, business resources, study spaces, technology, and printing. Explore the New BU Libraries Website BU Libraries launched a redesigned website this summer, including updated Pardee Library pages. It’s now easier to find resources, guides, and subject specialists. Research […]
Sargent College in the BU Archives
by Kate Silfen, Health Sciences Librarian As a health sciences librarian, I spend most of my time helping researchers find current peer-reviewed articles. This past summer, I had the privilege of exploring an entirely different type of source. I spent some time exploring special collections at The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at the Boston University Libraries. The Gotlieb Archival Research Center houses the […]
Students Rescue Lost Stories with Archival Research
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a 2,000-to-3,000-word piece of narrative non-fiction about a key event in a historic figure’s life or a significant event or moment in history. The trick? This must be based on primary sources from a library’s archive. You’ll use personal letters, handwritten diaries, government documents, […]
Now Live: New BU Libraries website connects community to resources
The Boston University Libraries have launched a fully redesigned website that will better connect the BU and global communities to scholarly and special collections, research tools, and the expertise of our subject specialists. The new site, which launched on August 3, is designed to help users quickly locate essential resources and engage with all the […]
Nikki Giovanni Papers to open with celebratory events, exhibition
“Poetry is the Culture of a People”: A Celebration of Nikki Giovanni and her Archive at Boston University Thursday, September 17, 2-7 pm George Sherman Union, 2nd Floor 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215 The BU Libraries invites you to the grand opening of the Nikki Giovanni Papers at Boston University as we celebrate the […]
Applications open: Nursing Archives Associates Archival Research Award
The Boston University Libraries Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center and the Nursing Archives Associates are pleased to announce that applications are sought for the 2026-2026 Nursing Archives Associates Archival Research Award. The award will help offset travel and related expenses to visit the Boston University Libraries to conduct research in the more than 200 collections […]
Mugar Library open 24 hours a day for study period and finals week
Mugar Memorial Library will be open 24 hours beginning Thursday, April 30, at 7 am until Friday, May 8, at 5 pm to provide all students study space that fits their schedules during the University’s study period and final exams. All other BU Libraries branches will be open during their regularly scheduled hours during this […]