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Mugar Memorial Library. Mice were spotted in Mugar Library as a result of cold weather, construction and food. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Of Mice and Mugar: Mouse spotted on third floor of Mugar Library

Megan Amato January 22, 2025
Boston University students share pest sightings after a video of a mouse in Mugar Memorial Library was posted on to the BU subreddit.
Sweaty Penguin Podcast

Boston University celebrates Earth Week in multi-platform plans

Katarzyna Jezak April 22, 2021
Virtual activities include panel events, social media discussions and more.
marsh plaza at boston university

BU conducts diversity survey to seek input from staff

Anna Vidergar March 26, 2021
BU launched the survey to seek guidance from employees on diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
empty classroom in the college of arts and sciences

Online learning poses new challenges, advantages for faculty with disabilities, those in the Deaf community

Emily Stevenson March 22, 2021
Those with disabilities and in the Deaf community had more flexibility, restraints with pandemic.
Desks in Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University

BU Student Government endorses in-person library boycott in response to denied workplace accommodations

Katarzyna Jezak February 19, 2021
Boston University Student Government has endorsed a boycott against the use of in-person library services and released a petition demanding library staff receive proper workplace accommodations.
In its Monday meeting, Boston University Student Government discussed resolutions supporting free on-campus laundry and accommodating BU library workers, and also voted on a bill that alters Senate participation. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

New Senate positions, library workers’ accommodations, free laundry on the agenda at StuGov meeting

Anna Vidergar February 9, 2021
Boston University Student Government voted on a bill regarding Senate positions, resolutions in support of library workers and free laundry in a Zoom meeting Monday night.
Some Boston University library employees will work partially in person during the Spring semester because their requests for full workplace accommodations were denied. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DFP FILE

BU library staff denied full workplace accommodations for Spring

Daily Free Press Staff December 17, 2020
Multiple BU library staff members have been denied full workplace accommodations and are required to work in person for a certain number of hours per week.
“Re-Birth” photographer Sheila Pree Bright’s multi-photograph installation hangs on a wall of Boston University’s Mugar Memorial Library. NICOLE BARTUCH / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Photographer captures BU student voices in campus installation

Nicole Bartuch October 26, 2020

Four black-and-white portraits hang side by side on the wall of Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University, overlaid by a transparent projection of a slideshow of similar photos. The themes of freedom,...

Commonwealth Ave. as seen from 660 Beacon St. in 1912. The “Ghost and Shadows of Commonwealth Avenue’s Automobile Row” lecture held in Brookline’s Larz Anderson Auto Museum Thursday focused on the revitalization of Automobile Row as a dealership mecca in the early 20th century. COURTESY BOSTON CITY ARCHIVES VIA FLICKR

The history of Commonwealth’s automobile row

Miriam Fauzia February 12, 2020
Almost a century ago, long before Boston University students dominated the busy stretch of Commonwealth Ave., cars ruled the street. With Cadillacs, Buicks, Studebakers and LaSalles, the Automobile Row had been Boston’s dealership mecca of the early 20th century. But it is a history many are not familiar with.
Boston University Libraries hosted their fourth “Wikipedia in the Classroom” workshop Thursday to educate faculty on how to incorporate Wikipedia into their courses. RYAN GREGORY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Wikipedia in the Classroom encourages students to serve the public

Mita Kataria February 6, 2020
Years ago, students were always told not to use Wikipedia as a source when doing any type of research assignment in school. But that is beginning to change as users are learning how to edit Wikipedia pages, and professors are even implementing this process into their coursework.
BU Libraries hosts an edit-a-thon at the Thurman Center in the George Sherman Union Wednesday afternoon during BU's Open Access Month. PHOTO BY YVETTE LOPEZ/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU Libraries launches Open Access Month with Wikipedia edit-a-thon

Haley Lerner October 12, 2017

Kicking off Open Access Month — which celebrates free and equitable access to information — BU Libraries hosted a Wikipedia edit-a-thon Wednesday afternoon. There, library staff members taught...

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