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A Year in Review: 2015-2016

Posted on July 25, 2016 by burnslibrary

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 →

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Fulton’s Various Rules: Making Boston College a Jesuit Institution

Posted on September 21, 2015 by burnslibrary

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 →

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#WeWereBC

Posted on September 14, 2015 by burnslibrary

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

Posted on April 7, 2014 by burnslibrary

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

Posted on November 18, 2013 by burnslibrary

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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Six Degrees of Separation: Interconnected Archival Collections at the Burns Library

Posted on April 8, 2013 by burnslibrary

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”

Posted on September 24, 2012 by burnslibrary

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 →

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Archives Diary: Introducing Howard Belding Gill

Posted on September 17, 2012 by burnslibrary

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 →

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