Located in the original Bapst Library building on Boston College's Chestnut Hill campus, the University’s special collections, including the University’s Archives, are housed in the John J. Burns Library.
Burns Library offers students, scholars, and the general public opportunities to engage with rare books, special collections, and archives.
Irish studies; British Catholic authors; Jesuitica; Fine printing; Catholic liturgy and life in America, 1925-1975; Boston history; the Caribbean, especially Jamaica; Nursing; and Congressional archives.
These materials are available for use in the Burns Library Reading Room.
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To find archival materials, you will need a Finding Aid, which is a document (often a pdf) that describes the contents of a collection, arranged by box. You will need to request materials by box number.
There are many special collections and archives in the Boston area. These databases can help you find locations of particular materials in Boston (and of course all over the world):
