displays

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.

The library is excited to feature Bentley University faculty and staff book recommendations in a special book display—Campus Reads: Faculty & Staff Favorites. The display will be in our lobby from July 1 through August 15, coinciding with the Bentley Community Learning Conference being held July 21-23. The books on display were chosen by Bentley faculty and staff who responded to our request to "share the books that have informed, inspired, or entertained you with colleagues across campus".  

We are celebrating Pride Month with a display of recently received books that highlight LGBTQ+ history, experiences, stories, and authors. This collection includes more than fifty noteworthy and award-winning works—fiction, memoirs, short stories, graphic novels, and nonfiction—published within the past two years.