 Welcome to Boston College. My name is Tom Wall. I'm a university librarian. We're thrilled to have you here as part of our community. The libraries feel like we're an integral part of that academic community. We also have a social element within the libraries. We have beautiful spaces. We provide a suite of services to help you and your students become successful both from research interests as well as teaching and learning as well as at the more basic level of just getting assignments completed and having them done the best they can. We're a major research library. We have over three million volumes on site. We have access to thousands of databases and we have a digital reach in terms of getting materials from other libraries in the area and around the world. We do have a model with our services that we call a suite of services or through a cohort. We do everything from digital scholarship to content to teaching and learning, research consultations. We can help you with any and all of your needs as well as your students at the classroom level and as well as the project level. We pride ourselves in being collaborators around campus so we work with the folks over in these Center for Teaching Excellence as well as the people in digital innovation. We work with student affairs. I'm a member of the council of deans so I work closely with the other deans. If you have any needs whatsoever that have to do with academic needs we are there to help you and we will get it if we can't if we don't have it here. We'd also like to point out that our special collections is not just a museum-like presence but it's a teaching library. We have unique materials particularly in Irish and Jesuitica but a lot of other unique collections. We use those spaces for teaching and learning so I urge you and your students to contact our folks over in the Burns library because they have an amazing teaching presence and we're fully dedicated to having our special collections used by undergraduates as well as researchers. Throughout our libraries our spaces are equipped to maximize people's time here and to allow them to come in and do a lot of different things. We have as you can see a lot of technology behind this but there's a lot of analog materials as well so we try to create that kind of hybrid environment that's more reflective of what we're going into this term as well but we see it also as the future of what academia is about and the future of academic libraries. If you think about our libraries in a way that you can synthesize think of us as sort of a combination of what Barnes and Noble used to be in its best moments and what the Apple Store is but the Genius Bar going forward and you put those two together and you animate it with a residential campus that's what we're trying to accomplish here. So it's always dynamic it's always different things happening and we want folks to come in and use our services physically but also digitally and we're prepared to meet the challenges of this nuanced world that we're living in with this pandemic but at the same time we're basing it on fundamentals that have gotten us to excellence at this point and our hope is that we can continue to have you all continue with that excellence going forward. We are confident that this semester is going to work out and that everything that you need academically in terms of content and library services we are able to meet and hopefully exceed your expectations. So welcome to Boston College we're happy to have you we're thrilled to have you and if you have any questions or needs or see any idea areas where we can improve please don't hesitate to contact either subject liaison or me directly. We listen to and take every suggestion as a form of constructive criticism and do everything we can to meet that because we are we are always on the path from good to great and that means that you can never be complacent about where you are. So thank you for being here and thank you for listening.