Category Archives: Digital Projects

Archives Diary: The Making of the John Boyle O’Reilly Memorial

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

The Boston College University Libraries have digitized the James Jeffrey Roche Letters.  This Burns Library collection is now available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1119 as part of Boston College University Libraries Digital Collections. Roche (1870 – 1908) was an Irish born journalist who edited The Pilot, starting … Continue reading →

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Archives Diary: Connolly Book of Hours Now Online

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

The Connolly Book of Hours, a fifteenth century illuminated manuscript held by the John J. Burns Library, is now available online to scholars, students and admirers everywhere.  Digital imaging of illuminated manuscripts requires advanced photographic techniques in order to maintain … Continue reading →

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100 Years on the Heights: The Move, 1913

Posted on September 10, 2012 by

The 2012-2013 academic year will be celebrated as the 150th year since the chartering of Boston College, but the university has another milestone to commemorate this year as well: 100 years on the Heights. Planning for the move from Boston … Continue reading →

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Reading Room Log: Exploring the World of Late Medieval Liturgy and Music, Part 2

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

In my previous post I gave an overview of medieval liturgical and musical books. One of these is the antiphonale or antiphoner, which contains the proper antiphons for the Divine Office. The Burns Library owns a beautiful (and now digitized) … Continue reading →

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Information Wanted: Missing Persons and Missing Pieces

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

In my time as a research assistant for the Information Wanted Database, I have encountered hundreds of advertisements for missing persons that offer a tantalizing but frustratingly brief snapshot of a potentially compelling back story. The searchable online database contains … Continue reading →

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Blog in Review: Spring Semester 2012

Posted on May 7, 2012 by

Dear Burns Library Blog Readers, The Spring 2012 semester is drawing to a close and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for reading the John J. Burns Library’s blog this semester and to remind you of the great posts … Continue reading →

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Collections Chat: Science & Jesuits

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

In the Boston College Course Bulletin for 1894, President Father Timothy Brosnahan somewhat grudgingly affirmed a role for scientific education in the Jesuit system of learning: “While recognizing, then, in education the necessity and importance of Mathematics and the Natural … Continue reading →

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Archives Diary: A New Campus, Clifton Church Photographs of Boston College

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Materials recently added to the Flickr site for the Burns Library include a set of striking photographs taken by Clifton Church from about 1917 to 1934. Clifton Church was a landscape photographer who worked in Jackson, New Hampshire, and Dallas, … Continue reading →

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Cataloger’s Corner: Burns Library’s Earliest Printed Book Now Online

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

The Burns Library’s earliest printed book, Jean Gerson’s De Spiritualib[us] Nupciis (On Spiritual Marriage), is a book of superlatives, of firsts. The topic of this short, 80 page quarto-sized book is a commentary on one of the shortest books of … Continue reading →

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Conservator’s Notebook: Making History and Putting Out Fires

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

We have had a very productive and exciting summer in the conservation lab. My assistant Robert Williams and I stabilized two important collections in preparation for digitization: the Heights, a Boston College student publication, and the Michael H. Leary Letters, … Continue reading →

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