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Sometimes the temperature in the library can feel like this: If you check out Mugar Library’s twitter page you’ll see that, within any given week, the library gets about a half dozen to a dozen tweets asking why the library is so hot or so cold. The library usually responds by alerting administration. But what [...]

The bad news is that finals week is approaching…but the good news is that the library will be open 24/7! From Thursday December 13th at 7 am to Thursday December 20th at 12 midnight, Mugar will be open all day and all night so you can study, and nap, as much as you need to. [...]

Hey Everyone! We here at Uncommon Discussion are now using Instagram to document our time here at BU- check out some of our pics below! And be sure to follow us at @mugarlib – we’ll be sure to post some interesting shots for Halloween!

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.

Heads-up: Mugar’s current entrance is closing soon! You’ll have to enter through the new and improved entrance in the GSU Link instead. Thanks!

Last Friday I learned a valuable lesson: always check hours of operation before entering a building. I am a member of the Mugar Student Work Group. This information would make you think that I had some general knowledge about how Mugar operates–think again.  This summer I’ve been working at Mugar (doing graphic design projects) from [...]

Music is the ultimate motivator. A perfectly crafted playlist forces me to get my ass to the gym, if running a couple miles means listening to it. And once there, the up-tempo of a Robyn track pushes me through my last lap. Music’s motivational properties aren’t only applicable to exercise, though. A lot of people [...]

We’d like to encourage all of you interested in writing and poetry, or just looking for something to do to come to HGARC Reading Room here at the fifth floor of the Mugar Memorial Library TONIGHT! The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center is hosting a discovery seminar on Twentieth Century Poets. English Professor Bonnie Costello [...]

When I first met with Diane d’Almeida, mild mannered Boston University librarian, I had no idea of her worldly travels or eye opening adventures. She just had so many stories to share. “There are Arab women writers?” I asked. I didn’t know that was acceptable behavior over there. But in Diane’s journey to Jordan, she [...]