displays

September 15 marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month and the Library is celebrating with a book display showcasing H

You can’t spell EARTH without ART! This year in celebration of Earth Day, Bentley Library is partnering with the BSLCE and Collins Creative Corner to encourage the Bentley Community to make, look at, and read about eco-art and sustainable design to find ways to connect to nature and one another and imagine better climate futures.

March 23–March 27 is Disability Awareness Week at Bentley!

We all recently advanced our clocks by one hour, springing forward into longer days and later sunsets.

The 17th annual Best Books display has arrived! Our display features more than 300 titles published in 2025 that have appeared on 18 year-end best books lists*, covering a broad selection of fiction and nonfiction across subjects and genres. Some of these books are bestsellers that you'll surely recognize, while others are critically acclaimed works that may have received less publicity or escaped your attention. 

The Bentley Library is happy to serve as a drop-in space for all community members to explore, discover, and reflect on readings from our book display honoring MLK Day.

Book selections for this special display include Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s own words, as well as his contemporaries, and books by current advocates who were influenced by Dr. King.

Discover something new in our latest nonfiction display! The Bentley Library staff have carefully selected standout titles from across a wide range of subjects and interests. Whether you're looking for academic insight or a bestselling read, this collection highlights titles you may have missed when they first hit our shelves.

October 5th marked the start of Banned Books Week, an annual event launched in 1982 to bring awareness to efforts to ban or challenge books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. This year’s theme, Censorship is so 1984, speaks to the continued encroachment of outside voices attempting to control what people can and cannot read.

“Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth

October and Halloween whisper a promise of thrills and chills. It’s that magical time of year when shadows lengthen, pumpkins grin from every porch, and our imaginations run wild. Whether you’re conjuring nail-biting stories around a campfire, curling up under a blanket with a psychological thriller as the dark sky looms overhead, or dimming the lights to watch a horror flick by candlelight, the season calls us to lean into the unknown.

Bentley faculty research takes many forms: art and articles, essays and editing, and of course, books.