Burns Library Archival Collections

A hand-lettered memorial list of Boston College alumni who died serving in the United States Armed Forces in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Open for research.

This collection is minimally described and includes many items on public view or too large to be easily paged. Burns Library might not be able to fulfill access requests.

This collection documents the history of the American Jesuit university Boston College in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries through its material culture. The collection includes banners, flags, football memorabilia, groundbreaking shovels, medals, pins, plaques, seals, and signs from Boston College administrators, faculty, and, to a lesser degree, students.

Collection is open for research.

The records of the Office of the Associate Academic Vice President document the office's involvement in committee activities between 1974-2005. Materials include agendas, committee reports, correspondence, handouts, meeting minutes and summaries, member lists, memos, notes, operations and procedures, reports, self-studies, and task force updates.

Collection is closed. Access with permission of office.

This collection includes programs, media guides, and occasional score sheets produced by Boston College for home events and tournaments for both men's and women's athletic teams and clubs. Some programs from away games of BC teams are also included. All-Sports Banquet, Hall of Fame Induction, and other gala materials are not included.

Collection is open for research.

The records contain correspondence, lectures, ephemera, and photographs documenting the Boston College Candlemas Lecture Series and its participants. Notable correspondents include Daniel Berrigan, SJ; Walter J. Burghardt, SJ; Philip Caraman, SJ; Robert Coles; Gerard Ellard, SJ; Allen Tate; and Bishop John J. Wright.

Collection is open for research.

Contains correspondence, surveys, clippings, and publications. The files from the 1940s include information on Boston College students enlisted in the military reserves and correspondence from the National Youth Administration. Later files primarily contain departmental reports and student surveys.

Collection is closed until processed.

Consists of annual reports, newsletters, program schedules and other publications of the Center.

Collection is closed until processed.

This collection documents the Irish perspective on the visit of American President John F. Kennedy to the Republic of Ireland in June of 1963 through Irish national security memoranda, a contemporary newspaper special issue, and publications from the 45th and 50th anniversary of the visit.

Collection is open for research. The DVD is not available for playback due to format impermanence and has not been reformatted.

Materials reflecting Boston College community members' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, including blog posts or journal entries, essays, newsletters, photographs, podcast episodes, and poems.

Collection is open for research.

Contains scrapbooks, correspondence, reports, publications, newspaper clippings, and yearbooks. The scrapbook provides an overview of the school between 1937 and 1961. The collection also contains material on the curriculum including correspodence from Dean Charles M. Crowley, S.J. regarding business courses. It also includes files on programs affliated with the Evening College such as the Mater Christi Institute which taught young women childrearing skills.

Collection is closed until processed.

Composed of administrative files that include personal and biographical material on former and retired Boston College faculty and staff members. Consists mainly of Jesuit and lay faculty information forms. Also includes newspaper clippings, press releases, and curricula vitae.

Collection is closed.

Recordings of events organized by the Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance, Workshop, and Lecture Series at Boston College, founded in 2003 by Séamus Connolly. The Series brings together accomplished performers and experts in Irish, Scottish, American, and related folk music traditions to share their experience, knowledge, and talent with the Boston College community and beyond.

Collection is open for research.

Recordings have been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Consists of diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, reports, and publications. The diaries and scrapbooks document the School's history during the tenures of deans Walter McGuinn, SJ and Dorothy L. Book. The collection also contains files on special projects and programs, such as work with the Peace Corps and the School's anniversary celebrations.

Collection is closed until processed.

Ephemera produced by Jesuit secondary school Boston College High School and its students, primarily photographs and programs.

Collection is open for research.

These records include correspondence, manuscripts, financial records, scrapbooks, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting the first forty years of Boston College's Humanities Series and related lecture series. Materials also document director Francis W. Sweeney, SJ's lifelong relationship with prominent writers, theologians and academics of the 20th century.

Collection is open for research.

Composed of correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, publications, and other materials. Most of the collection consists of administrative files of the Institute's Associate Director.

Collection is closed until processed.

Composed of publications, videocassettes, correspondence, and other materials relating to the Jesuit Institute. Includes newsletters and some letters of the Director.

Collection is closed until processed.

Composed of annual reports, correspondence, photographs, press clippings, publications, recordings, and other items relating to the Law School and Law School Library.

Collection is closed until processed.