{"id":598,"date":"2024-07-18T20:26:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariescatholicresearch.bc.edu\/?page_id=598"},"modified":"2026-09-17T19:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:34:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/?page_id=598","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:clamp(35.641px, 2.228rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.79), 65px);\">About<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/050415LP005v1-1024x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-856\" style=\"border-width:1px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/050415LP005v1-1024x425.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/050415LP005v1-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/050415LP005v1-768x319.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/050415LP005v1.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">In keeping with its motto of \u2018Value Beyond Discovery\u2019 and with support from the Office of the Provost, Boston College Libraries offers a series of diverse programming to encourage widespread engagement with the University\u2019s Catholic collections \u2013 especially the Catholic Religious Archives \u2013 to facilitate global collaborations between institutions, archivists, and scholars, and generally to promote scholarship on the Catholic Church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">The CHRI collaborates with partners at Boston College and elsewhere to organize events (both in-person and online), to award grants to defray the travel costs of researching Catholic archival collections, to gather writing fellows to discuss works and progress, and to offer innovative, open-access databases to advance the study of Catholic history. The CHRI is coordinated by Seth Meehan, program director, and by Thomas B. Wall, University Librarian at Boston College Libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">These initiatives are coordinated by Thomas B. Wall, University Librarian, and Seth Meehan, Department of Academic Programming and Special Projects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About In keeping with its motto of \u2018Value Beyond Discovery\u2019 and with support from the Office of the Provost, Boston College Libraries offers a series of diverse programming to encourage widespread engagement with the University\u2019s Catholic collections \u2013 especially the Catholic Religious Archives \u2013 to facilitate global collaborations between institutions, archivists, and scholars, and generally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-598","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/598\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chri.bc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}