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A Year in Review: 2015-2016
Hello, readers! Thank you for another academic year of following the John J. Burns Library blog. Over the summer we like to take a look back at what has been posted throughout the year both to thank our authors and … Continue reading
Fulton’s Various Rules: Making Boston College a Jesuit Institution
In 1599, the Society of Jesus published the Ratio Studiorum and sent copies to their eight schools throughout Europe. The Ratio was essentially a rulebook for all the colleges operated by the Jesuits. The daily course schedule was outlined. Each … Continue reading
#WeWereBC
At 4:30 p.m. on September 17, an exhibit curated by the students of “Making History Public: Boston College” opens in the History department on the 3rd floor of Stokes South. The exhibit—#WeWereBC—uses archival material from Burns Library to chronicle the … Continue reading
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Evolution of an English Course: The Syllabus
The Studies in Poetry class at Boston College has been in existence for at least four decades, but a similar course was also once offered at Boston College within the English department. The class was called Craft of Poetry when it was taught … Continue reading
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Processing BC Presidents’ Records
Just over a year ago, in July 2012, the archivists at the Burns Library started an ambitious backlog processing project. Since then, we’ve worked on a variety of archival collections, most recently the institutional records of the Boston College President’s Office. … Continue reading
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Tagged archives and manuscripts, backlog processing project, boston college 150th, boston college archives, boston college history, burns library archives, joseph r. n. maxwell sj, lebanon expedition boston college, louis j. gallagher, mcgarry, michael p walsh sj, Sesquicentennial Boston College, sesquicentennial university archives
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Six Degrees of Separation: Interconnected Archival Collections at the Burns Library
Have you ever played “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?” If you’ve never heard of this game, the rules are pretty basic: you take any actor and try to connect her or him in some way to Footloose star Kevin Bacon … Continue reading
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Archives Diary: Prison, the Musical, Howard Gill’s “The Perfect 36”
What would you do if you felt you were unjustly accused of approximately thirty-six offenses? We recently discovered that Howard Belding Gill, a noted prison reformer and former Boston College adjunct faculty member who gave his papers to the Burns … Continue reading
Archives Diary: Introducing Howard Belding Gill
In October 1973, librarian Catherine Seelye was editing the papers of the poet Charles Olson when she came across a curious reference to criminologist Howard Belding Gill and poet Ezra Pound. She wrote Gill to ask for more information: “In … Continue reading