Tomorrow, in the link outside the new entrance to Mugar, we’ll be hosting a banned books reading and information session! Come and learn about the history of banned or challenged books in America and what libraries around the country have done to fight literary censorship.

Yesterday, Mugar Library held its Grand Opening Ceremony and ribbon cutting! Alexis Gordon was chosen to cut the ribbon. She’s sporting one of the six hundred t-shirts the library gave away to passing students. There was also free cake and soda for students to enjoy! Beginning on September 30th is Banned Books week! I was [...]

I spent the last two days reading a book called The Fault in Our Stars by John Green — I mentioned my intent to read it in my video earlier this semester. I finished it about half an hour ago, and it has taken me until now to really absorb and process what I’d read. [...]

I don’t know if maybe I just watch too many movies or TV shows but it seems that I’m always watching something. My takeaway from a pretty decent sociology lecture was that I should watch The Insider (a movie, incidentally, which I highly recommend and think everyone should watch right now, two big thumbs up [...]

Libraries are synonymous with books but all of that has slowly been changing as libraries enter the digital age. Libraries have been making the shift from the physical to the digital for some time. For example Boston University’s libraries now use a digital database to catalog books, as opposed to a card catalog. Additionally many [...]

When I went to Los Angeles, I stayed with my friend who lives there. Unfortunately, after I had purchased my plane ticket, he found out that his brother won tickets to go to SXSW on Friday 3/18. This meant that he had to be on a 9:00am flight that day which was a whole 14.5 [...]

Picture this. It’s a beautiful summer day. You’re walking down the street with no real purpose at all. You stop to look at the store windows. You look up at the buildings as you walk by. You eavesdrop on the conversation between the man and woman in front of you. You restrain yourself from butting [...]

I have always loved reading. When I was younger, I had a habit of reading multiple books at once. I think I was a bit lonely and bored, and why just have one friend to hang out with, when you could have a multitude of friends at your beck and call? My mom tells me [...]