Catholic Historical Research Initiatives at Boston College Libraries
In keeping with its motto of “Value Beyond Discovery,” Boston College Libraries offers diverse research opportunities to encourage widespread engagement with Catholic content at Boston College and beyond.
The Catholic Historical Research Initiative intends to facilitate collaboration between institutions, archivists, and scholars and to promote scholarship on the history of the Catholic Church.
Program Spotlight
The Catholic Historical Research Library is an open-access, curated, and growing compilation of newspapers, journals, and books to facilitate the study and understanding of the Catholic Church. Initial titles complement the archival collections at the Catholic Religious Archives at Boston College, and, with time, publications will also include the histories of the institutions, people, and religious congregations identified in the Catholic Almanac project.
The CHRI partners with archives and other institutions to loan portable scanners to digitize content for this open-access database. To learn more, contact chri@bc.edu.
