What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
On the move: Arabbers on Baltimore streets (Sept-Oct 1969) The Special Collections Department is often an overlooked resource at Langsdale Library. It doesn’t help that it is located on the fourth floor, housed behind locked doors and open by appointment Continue reading Discovering Our Hidden Resources
Langsdale Library is always looking for ways to make things easier and faster for faculty and students. Well, we have successfully made retrieving E-reserves as simple as 1 click. Watch the before and after demonstration. Then try it out for Continue reading Fewer clicks, no extra passwords
Midterms are here and Finals are approaching! It’s crunch time @ UB, plenty of test, and papers are being tossed at us students, so that means plenty of research is needed to be done. Langsdale online provides research help @ http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/research-help/. Continue reading Research Research
Seattle Times guest columnists Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg push back on the prevailing idea that today’s college students are slackers. Rather, these researchers argue that colleges must retool to help young people learn the skills to negotiate Continue reading College students eager to learn but need help negotiating the information overload!
Staff in Special Collections at Langsdale have been working with MICA students from Dan D’Oca’s 2010-11 Exhibition Development Seminar as they prepare their exhibit, Baltimore: Open City, which opens this Friday at the former North Avenue Market and runs through Continue reading Upcoming exhibit mixes art, archives, & politics
Hi – this is your student liaison, Dawn, again. While researching, are you finding everything you need? Don’t forget to use Langsdale’s interlibrary loan service. Interlibrary loan can allow you to retrieve documents, articles, or books that are not available Continue reading Don’t forget to use Interlibrary Loan
A new study out of the University of Washington School of Information finds that 84% of students don’t know where to go to start researching a topic. In a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education notes that students Continue reading Survey reports students’ difficulty with research
This is Dawn, your student liaison. Well, the countdown continues and we only have five and ½ weeks left…could that be right? It doesn’t seem possible. With finals approaching, does everyone have everything they need in terms of research? If Continue reading Need help with research?
This time of year you’re working on the next big project for the semester. Maybe it’s in a field you’re unfamiliar with, or maybe you know your topic, but you still need to find resources. At Langsdale, we have library Continue reading Using LibGuides for research help
On April 30, 2010, UB will host a symposium, Inspired Discoveries, featuring undergraduates’ original research and creative works. This one-day conference will offer student presentations, including poster sessions, panel discussions and presentations of honors theses. Students or faculty advisors should Continue reading Inspired Discoveries: An Undergraduate Research Symposium