Join the Mugar Book Club, meeting electronically this summer on Facebook! We’re reading How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez. Lead by our fabulous Mugar Orientation Ambassadors, BU students Rebecca Strong Garcia, Kate Monroe, and Naveen Imin, we’ll discuss everything from the portrayal of identity and race... Read the rest of this entry »

The 2018 Edition of Journal Citation Reports is now available. This edition covers citations from scholarly journal articles published in 2017, and includes: More than 11,000 of the world's most highly cited, peer reviewed journals in 234 disciplines 80 countries represented 276 journals receiving their first impact factor To find an impact... Read the rest of this entry »

Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, announced the appointment of Dr. K. Matthew Dames as the next University Librarian on May 15: http://www.bu.edu/provost/2018/05/15/selection-of-dr-k-matthew-dames-as-boston-university-librarian/ And BU Today profiled the new University Librarian on May 18: http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/k-matthew-dames-appointed-new-university-librarian/

If you need assistance citing your sources, be sure to consult the library's Citing Your Sources research guide. This guide will help you locate some of the most frequently used style manuals and provides links to a few subject specific citation guides. Also, if you are interested in using a bibliographic... Read the rest of this entry »

How do you get students from the blank stare - or the constant “I don’t know” - to having them tell you the right answer?  According to Teach Like a Champion 2.0 part of the answer is to practice Technique #11: No Opt Out.  This technique is meant to ensure that... Read the rest of this entry »

The Pickering Library’s Education on Film series continues later today, Tuesday, April 3rd at 5pm. We will be showing the film Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women (4th edition) from the library’s Kanopy database. The movie examines the challenges women continue to face through advertising: images that stereotype women in a number of ways and that promote unhealthy... Read the rest of this entry »

If you need assistance citing your sources, be sure to consult the library's Citing Your Sources research guide.  This guide will help you locate some of the most frequently used style manuals and provides links to a few subject specific citation guides. Also, if you are interested in using a bibliographic... Read the rest of this entry »

We are pleased to announce that the library has added American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals to its electronic collections. This unique resource includes digitized images of American magazines published between 1684 and 1912. It covers the history of slavery, literature, women's and religious issues, politics, culture, the arts and foreign... Read the rest of this entry »

The Pickering Library’s Education on Film series continues later today, Monday, March 19 at 4pm. We will be showing the film Starving the Beast: the Battle to Disrupt and Reform America's Public Universities from the library’s Kanopy database. The movie explores various pressures affecting higher education. Please feel free to bring... Read the rest of this entry »

Looking for some great STEM lessons to share with students? Microsoft offers this Hacking STEM Library as part of their educational efforts. The library is divided into three sections: the main Activities Library, an area for Skills Guides, and then also Bite-Sized Activities. This is just one of the many sources... Read the rest of this entry »