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The BU libraries house more than 2.4 million physical volumes, over 45,000 current unique serials, and 77,000 media titles. [1] Students also have access to more than 35 million items due to the increased networked services through the Boston Library Consortium, the Boston Theological Institute and the New England Law Library Consortium.
The African Studies Library [4] (ASL) was founded in 1953 and is located on the sixth floor of the Mugar Memorial Library, accessible by the North elevator.Its primary function is to support Boston University's African Studies Center and all undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research on Africa.
Beaman Memorial Public Library West Boylston: Worcester: West Bridgewater Public Library West Bridgewater: Plymouth: Merriam-Gilbert Public Library West Brookfield: Worcester: G. A. R. Memorial Library: West Newbury: Essex: MVLC: West Springfield Public Library West Springfield: Hampden: West Stockbridge Public Library West Stockbridge
After the purchase, BU leased the building to Howard Johnson Co. [10] BU rented out for its students at the hotel when there was a shortage of student housing. [11] [12] On February 5, 1994, about 200 people were evacuated from the hotel after a fire broke out on the top floor of the building. Five people were treated for smoke inhalation. [10]
The library is accessible to UMass Amherst and 5-College Students for 7 days a week during the normal academic year. The building is a public library so citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who are 18 years of age can access the majority of the building and its materials. An application for a borrowers card can be made online or on-site.
West Campus is an area in the westernmost part of Boston University's Charles River campus in Boston, Massachusetts. The area taken up by West Campus takes up most of the footprint of the former grandstand of Braves Field , whose right field pavilion grandstand is currently used as the primary grandstand for Nickerson Field .
These trustees were successful Boston businessmen and Methodist laymen, with a history of involvement in educational enterprises, and they became the founders of Boston University. They were Isaac Rich (1801–1872), Lee Claflin (1791–1871), and Jacob Sleeper (1802–1889), for whom Boston University's three West Campus dormitories were later ...
Boston University's rare book and manuscript collections are held in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, formerly called the Twentieth Century Archives. The Research Center was renamed in his honor on the 40th anniversary of his appointment. [3] It is housed in the Mugar Library and is open to the public for research and viewing.