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 »

Boston University Libraries announces that after a nationwide, competitive search process, it has named Christine M. Quirion  as Associate University Librarian for Data and Operations. Effective February 24, 2020, Quirion (pronounced CURIE-on) will oversee BU Libraries’ talent, data, and operations, also directly supervising the Libraries’ branches: African Studies Library, Music... Read the rest of this entry »

  Stressed out about finals? Good thing the therapy dogs are coming! De-stress with some cuteness Thursday, Dec 12th from 5-9pm and Sunday, Dec 15th, 1-5pm. Please make a reservation.

Ready for Halloween? Mugar Greene Scholar and film aficionado Naveen Inim (COM and CAS'20) recently put together her top ten Halloween films for Instagram (which she's letting us share here): Night of the Living Dead (1968): A horror classic! This is my all time favorite zombie movie (Sorry Zombieland). Edward... Read the rest of this entry »

Looking for something to do? Here are upcoming events hosted at BU Libraries. All events are held in the Estin Room (Rm 302) in the Mugar Memorial Library except events listed as Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center (HGARC), which are held in the archive's 5th floor reading room. October 9:  The CinemAfriq... Read the rest of this entry »

Boston University Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Services are honored to announce the public release of over 18,000 pages of manuscripts from 58 different Mandinka scholars in Casamance, Senegal, which are now completely digitized and openly available in the African Ajami Library on OpenBU. The project initially focused on preserving endangered Mandinka Ajami manuscripts of the... Read the rest of this entry »

Academic Video Online is now available through BU Libraries.  This collection contains over 67,000 videos on topics including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.  Distributors include Sony Pictures Classics, PBS, and Documentary Education Resources (DER) All films include permission for classroom showings, as well as public... Read the rest of this entry »

The Chronicle of Higher Education is available to the BU community in two ways: If you are on-campus, you can access it directly through www.chronicle.com. If you are off-campus, you'll need to use your BU login and this link: https://www-chronicle-com.ezproxy.bu.edu/. BU Libraries has up-to-date and full access to the Chronicle. You'll be able to... Read the rest of this entry »

New Journal Impact Factors can be found in a library database called Journal Citation Reports. The 2019 edition of Journal Citation Reports is now available. This edition covers citations from scholarly journal articles published in 2018, and includes: More than 11,000 of the world’s most highly cited, peer reviewed journals 236 research categories ... Read the rest of this entry »