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 »

The National Science Digital Library is an excellent site that provides plenty of lesson plans, information on educational standards (including the Common Core), and Science Literacy Maps. Their lesson plans are often available in multiple translations to support students in many languages.  It was produced by funding from multiple grants from... Read the rest of this entry »

Policy Map is a wonderful database for Education data available through the BU Libraries. An easy-to-use online mapping and visualization tool, the database provides downloadable U.S. demographic, economic and social data by city, state, zip code, county, or census tract. Look for the Education menu option near the top of the... Read the rest of this entry »

Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers Edited by Conra D. Gist and Travis J. Bristol This major new release has more than 70 chapters and 1000 pages. Several opening and closing chapters accompany these 11 sections: Recruitment Program Design Minority-Serving Institutions Human Resource Development and Induction Mentorship Professional... Read the rest of this entry »

Featured Resource Mobile Media Learning: Amazing Uses of Mobile Devices for Learning Seann Dikkers, John Martin, Bob Coulter et al. This free eBook contains chapters that highlight "innovative uses of mobile technology for learning".  Most of the chapters include a description of an educational implementation of a game or app.  There are games... Read the rest of this entry »

Did you know there are more than 30 great databases for education research available through the BU Libraries?  They include: Major education news sources Education Week Chronicle of Higher Education Streaming video sources  Academic Video Online  Kanopy HistoryMakers: African American Video Oral History Collection Sign Language Acquisition Research literature discovery tools Sage Research... Read the rest of this entry »