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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »