What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
Who better than a research librarian to check facts on the campaign trail? A Washington (state) non-partisan election guide, Living Voters Guide, offers callers the expertise of reference librarians from the Seattle Public Library in fact-checking each comment/post on an Continue reading Question a politician’s statement? Librarians to the rescue
Open publication – Free publishing – More 2012 Find out what Langsdale has been up to for the last year.
Even libraries are k-pop fans! Watch students, librarians and Testudo at UMD’s McKeldin Library showing their own Gangnam style:
Langsdale Library has a new way to browse our DVD collection! Using our new online lists, you can easily see what DVDs we own and if they’re checked out. Here’s how you get there (trust me, it’s not as hard Continue reading UB DVDs Lists
Hello all of you voracious readers out there! For those of you who love to read and share your opinions and insights with others who are reading the same material, we invite you to participate in the Maryland Humanities Council’s Continue reading The Cellist of Sarajevo Program, Oct 2
As the semester wears on and studying begins to take over your life, it’s important to remember to pull your nose out of your textbooks every once in a while and give yourself a mental break. Take a little time Continue reading Need a mental break? Check out a new movie!
Want to see Baltimore’s funniest home videos? Well, nobody’s voting, but you can take a peek at the past when Baltimore residents raid their attics for home movies and show them at UB. Home Movie Day is October 20 and will take place in the Continue reading Home movies, BOOk sale and the return of the READ poster
The One Ring by Suzi Duke on Flickr One of the things we hear from students who are looking for information is that they don’t always know where to begin. Given that the library provides access to millions of articles Continue reading One Search Box to Rule Them All
“House of Knowledge” by Jaume Plensa If the internet or blogs were old enough to have what one might call a tradition, we can be sure that it would be predominantly based in retelling what is new, what is breaking Continue reading The Wizard and the Great Zeitgeist
Meet Ivy Patterson Owens. Ivy is the full time cataloger for the Langsdale Library. Ivy absolutely belongs in a library. Reading is her passion. She enjoys old fashioned mysteries, historical novels, fairy tales and anything Jane Austen. As part of our Continue reading Getting to know U, Junior Year