The Healey Library waterproofing/roof project will continue its second phase Monday, May 11.
Railings, waterproofing, and parapet removal are all parts of the work to be done in this phase. Exterior scaffolding will be installed against the building. No work will be performed during final exam week.
Read more details about the work to be done on the university’s construction website.
The library is open extended hours through May 22nd. Here’s the schedule:
| Monday through Friday | 7:30am to 11:00pm |
| Saturday | 9:00am to 7:00pm |
| Sunday | 11:00am to 5:00pm |
The ACRL/NEC Annual Conference is on Friday, May 8, 2015 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. The theme of the conference is “Spacing Out with the Library: An Exploration of Collaboration Across the Physical, Virtual and those Places in Between”.
The conference description notes “as the academic library evolves, it is wherever students and faculty are conducting research and learning, and within physical and virtual spaces intentionally designed to encourage scholarship, collaboration and production. Librarians and our colleagues across our campuses and beyond are actively engaged in building and assessing the most useful discovery services, the most valuable collections, the most cost-effective learning resources, the most effective collaborative spaces … for the best education and research. What does it take to expand “the library” beyond its traditional physical space? With whom are we working to expand our services?” Continue reading UMass Boston Librarians Presenting at ACRL/NEC 2015 Conference
For the past 13 years, the New Media Consortium (NMC) has been monitoring emerging technology trends in education and libraries. 
Partnering with EDUCAUSE, the NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition identifies trends, challenges, and important developments higher education institutions face. The Report synthesizes discussion of a 56 member panel of experts. Continue reading The Horizon Reports
Digital National Security Archive unlocks a trove of important declassified U.S. government documents, providing vital primary source
material to advance research in twentieth and twenty-first century history, politics, and international relations. The digitized documents are made available in over 40 topic-based collections, with two new collections added each year. The curation of each collection is overseen by Continue reading Try the Digital National Security Archive (through July 30)