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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.

The original and certified copies of the charter of incorporation for Boston College (1863), as well as amendments (1908 and 1959).

Collection is open for research; also available digitally. Access restricted to the digital version.

This collection consists of individual and group photographs of graduates and attendees of Boston College Commencement ceremonies, as well as program materials. The collection includes contact sheets, photographs, printed ephemera, and slides.

Collection is open for research; a portion is available digitally.

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.

This collection consists of photographs of Boston College faculty members and staff. Faculty photographs contain images of both Jesuit and lay faculty members. Also included in this collection is a printed faculty photograph album from 1981, as well as the images and negatives used in its compilation.

Collection is open for research; a portion is available digitally.

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.

The collection consists of documents, performer interviews, as well as audio- and video-recordings of the Spring 1990 Boston College Irish fiddle festival called "My Love is in America," co-sponsored by the Boston College Music Department and Irish Studies Programs and directed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.

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.

These records document an interview project conducted by the Boston College Office of Marketing Communications during the Alumni Association's Reconnect event in 2009. The interviews include alumni recollections of their student years and experience of participating in AHANA student programs in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as accounts of their career paths following graduation.

Collection is open for research. The video recordings have been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Composed of subject files, correspondence, manuscripts, publications, audiotapes and photographs related to the projects of the University Historian. The material dates from the tenure of the first University Historian Rev. Charles F. Donovan, S.J.

Collection is closed.

The Timothy Brosnahan, SJ, President's Office records contain correspondence, clippings, and writings documenting the life and work of Timothy Brosnahan, SJ, the tenth president of Boston College.

Collection is open for research.

The Edward I. Devitt, SJ, President's Office records reflect the life and work of Edward I. Devitt, SJ, ninth president of Boston College.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research; portions are available digitally.

"Father Rector's Office and President of Boston College" scrapbook in Series II is closed due to fragility. A photocopied duplicate of the scrapbook can be accessed in Box 4.

Collection is open for research; portions available digitally.

The Robert Fulton, SJ, President’s Office Records contain correspondence, manuscript material, notes, programs, and ephemera documenting the life and work of Robert Fulton, SJ, twice president of Boston College.

Collection is open for research.

Collection open for research; portion also available digitally. Three items in Series V. have been closed due to fragility.