This guest blog post is written by Catherine Brooks, a long-time BPL patron who found healing and personal transformation while visiting the Central Library in Copley Square.
On Tape: Highlights of the McKim Building
A brief video tour featuring highlights of the McKim Building at the Central Library in Copley Square.
Behind the Scenes at the Arts Department
The Arts Department consists of the Fine Arts, Architecture, Music, and Prints & Photographs. So what on earth have we been doing in the seven+ months the building has been closed? Here are a few things Arts staff members have been able to work on amidst quarantine and now, at the trial reopening of the…
Cataloging BPL Manuscripts From Home
Since March, a small team of BPL Special Collections Department staff have labored to make more of the library's manuscripts findable online.
Notes From A Lost Renaissance Library
The BPL recently purchased an annotated volume from the library of the Italian author and magistrate Giuliano Guizzelmi (1446-1518).¹ A minor, if interesting figure in the history of renaissance Italy, Guizzelmi is mostly remembered as a jurist, diary-keeper, and pious chronicler of miracles attributed to the shrines and holy relics of the Tuscan city of…
