The Boston College Libraries add Value Beyond Discovery.
BC Libraries serve the University’s distinctive mission by fostering student formation and world-class research in the Jesuit Catholic intellectual tradition. As stewards of knowledge creation and dissemination, we deliver excellence through inclusive services, collections, and spaces.
As members of the BC community, we embrace diversity and promote belonging by intentionally cultivating a culture of care. We make our Libraries places of possibility where everyone can discover, imagine, and create.
Library Guiding Principles:
Access - We support academic inquiry and intellectual freedom by providing equitable access to the highest quality scholarly resources and services whenever and wherever users need them.
Innovation - We are a creative, experimental, and responsive organization that engages with the global scholarly community to achieve distinction in research, learning, and teaching.
Stewardship - We cultivate and preserve our collections, manage our resources, and prepare for the future in support of Boston College's academic mission as a Jesuit, Catholic University.
People - We cultivate an open, respectful, diverse, and collaborative environment that contributes to the intellectual and ethical growth of the Boston College community.
Our Commitment:
The BC Libraries support the process of student formation, reasoned discernment and cura personalis within the context of the undergraduate commitment to the liberal arts and excellence in graduate and faculty research. We do this by providing services, collections, and spaces that foster academic excellence, promote formative learning, and offer places where our community can discover, imagine and create.
The BC Libraries collect, curate and make available a wide range of scholarly resources, with particular distinctiveness and content commensurate with the BC grounding in the Jesuit Catholic intellectual tradition
The BC Libraries maintain welcoming facilities, relevant collections and integrated services to facilitate the scholarship, learning and teaching for all BC academic and scholarly activities
The BC Libraries recruit and support a highly skilled, collaborative and thoughtful workforce dedicated to student success and the BC Mission
In each of these areas we remain committed to the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion and our library workplace values.
Library Assessment Questions
These questions guide us as we plan for new services and reflect on activities.
Is it good for the user?
Is it good for Boston College?
Is it the right thing to do?
Is it sustainable?
