News Releases
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Travel Photograph Album, 1910 – An Historical Mystery
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015By Jessica Bright and Kalyna Melnyk Mysteries within archives abound, and the Travel Photograph Album, 1910, is no different. The Travel Photograph Album is a scrapbook that someone …
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Poetry Collection Staff Featured in The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections
Monday, October 19th, 2015Michael Basinski, Marie Elia, James Maynard, and Edric Mesmer are featured in “Acts of Curation: The Curating of Poetry & The Poetics of Curating” in the inaugural issue …
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A Fighting Spirit
Monday, October 19th, 2015Colorful. Controversial. Courageous. UB Alumnus Gustin L. (Gus) Reichbach was never afraid to take a stand on issues ranging from antiwar activism to the legalization of medical marijuana. …
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University Libraries Cancellations: January 2016
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015After consulting with the campus this past spring, the University Libraries will be cancelling the following subscriptions (journals, serials, databases). Most cancellations will take effect January 2016. These …
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Knovel Academic Challenge: Let the Games Begin!
Friday, October 9th, 2015The Knovel Academic Challenge is currently underway! Knovel is an engineering database which the UB Libraries’ subscribes to. It includes the full text of over 1,000 engineering handbooks …
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Packed in: The UB Libraries Annex has over 1.3 million volumes in high-density storage.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015Inside the UB Libraries Annex, long rows of free-standing shelves soar three stories overhead, dwarfing staff and visitors alike. Built in 2006 to help alleviate serious overcrowding of …
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University at Buffalo Recruitment Brochures and Pamphlets collection
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015When a student applies to college, they are inundated with recruitment brochures. The brochures give the student a sense of life at the college, both scholastically and socially. …
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An Evening with Irving Feldman, October 8th, 2015
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 7pm UB Anderson Gallery | Doors open at 6:30 Irving Feldman, poet and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English, arrived in Buffalo in 1964 …
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Library Artifact: Robert Graves WWI Knapsack
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015The Poetry Collection is home to the World War I knapsack of poet and novelist Robert Graves. Graves served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, an infantry regiment of …
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Science & Engineering Information Fair
Friday, September 25th, 2015Welcome to the new academic year and to a new, permanent home for the science and engineering librarians at UB and our book, journal, and reference collections. We …