Healey Library at UMass Boston

📊 THIS OR THAT: Student Edition

We want to know your study style 👇

📱 eBooks or 📚 Print books?
🤫 Quiet study or 🎧 background noise?
🌅 Early morning focus or 🌙 late-night productivity?
✍️ Annotated PDFs or 📝 handwritten notes?

Drop your answers in the comments!

☀️📚 Summer Reading Picks

Looking for your next great read this summer? Here are 10 engaging, thought-provoking books, whether you want something light, emotional, strange, or deeply reflective.

Perfect for UMB students looking to unwind, reflect, or get completely absorbed in a story this summer.

What’s on your summer reading list? ☀️📖

Every time rolls around, we cheer a little extra loudly for our graduating student employees. Student employees are the lifeblood of , and celebrating them is one of our favorite parts of Commencement season!

Click through to read about our December 2025 graduates and Healey : Kartik, Pavitra, and Shaivi and why we think they deserve all the social media fame and accolades we can offer!

Congratulations, Graduates - we're cheering you on, and we know your next chapter will be amazing! Thanks for letting us be a part of your journey!🎓💛💙

☀️ Summer hours are here at Healey Library! Whether you’re taking classes, researching, or just looking for a quiet study spot, we’ve got you covered all summer long 📖✨

We’ll see you this summer!💛

Hello Beacons!

As we near the end of the semester, many of you will be filling out end-of-semester course surveys.

If your professor used no-cost or low-cost materials in their course, you can thank them in their survey! Doing so will:

1) Encourage them to continue using no-cost and low-cost materials in their future courses.

2) Let them know that you appreciate their efforts to make education more affordable.

3) Help to make college more accessible to all students.

Why do no-cost and low-cost course materials matter?

1) You save money.

2) Affordable course materials can be as good as traditional textbooks.

3) They are more accessible to students.

Learn about how UMass Boston is supporting faculty to make their courses more affordable for students by visiting UMass Boston's Open Education page linked here: https://www.umb.edu/library/open-education/

📚 Finals season is here and Healey Library wants to help you succeed! 💛💙

Plan your study sessions accordingly, and good luck on finals! ✨

Attention all UMass Boston researchers! As we near the end of the semester, have you thought about where you want your work to be hosted? Consider uploading your materials to ScholarWorks, UMass Boston's online institutional repository!

UMB faculty, staff and researchers are eligible to upload their pre-prints, post-prints, manuscripts, datasets, conference proceedings, presentations, posters, and other scholarly content to the repository, free of charge. Works uploaded to ScholarWorks are permanently preserved and tracked for readership and downloads.

All uploaded materials must comply with copyright and accessibility requirements.
Undergraduate and graduate students are also welcome to submit their work, but must be sponsored by a department for inclusion in the repository.

For more information, visit Healey's ScholarWorks Library Guide at https://umb.libguides.com/scholarworks

Visit scholarworks.umb.edu to upload your work today!

Celebrate Green Open Access Week with Healey Library and upload your research to ScholarWorks, UMass Boston’s Institutional Repository!

Green Open Access means that authors can upload their works to an institutional repository online without having to pay article processing charges, and users seeking to access this material are not faced with a paywall.

UMB faculty, staff, and researchers can self-submit their work to our institutional repository, ScholarWorks (scholarworks.umb.edu). Your materials will be open access, free of charge, permanently preserved, and tracked for readership and downloads.

Undergraduate and graduate students are also welcome to submit their work, but must be sponsored by a department for inclusion in the repository.

For more information, visit Healey's ScholarWorks Library Guide at https://umb.libguides.com/scholarworks

Visit scholarworks.umb.edu to upload your work today!

Stop by to say hello and take a break with a therapy dog!

Philameno from Pause for Paws will be at Healey Library - 2nd Floor lounge area - on Wednesday, May 6, from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Enjoy a moment of calm as we approach the last week of classes.