What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
Yes, Langsdale Library does have 10 new ThinkPads available for use within the library. But this post is about the original Think Pads which first circulated in the 1920s. To find out more about the original Think Pad take a Continue reading The Original ThinkPad
Will we ever know how many pages are on the World Wide Web? Google surpassed the trillion-page mark in its index three years ago (Google, 2008), and this doesn’t count the deep web that its search engine doesn’t index? With Continue reading Creator of World Wide Web is now trying to measure its size
The display case in the entry to Langsdale Library commemorates the tragic events of September 11, 2011. Created by library staff member Brian Chetelat, this display features a number of books dealing with the events of that tragic day ten Continue reading Remembering September 11, 2001
Welcome back students. Langsdale Library has made some changes to our homepage. Visit http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/ to see our site and take some time to become familiar with all of the new ways to find information available to you. You can search Continue reading New and Shiny
While we were lucky here at Langsdale, with virtually no damage after the earthquake, some of our sister libraries were not so fortunate. Here are photos of McKeldin Library that had large numbers of books fall off the shelves.
What, a librarian promoting Google Scholar? Yes, I use it often – it’s a great way to track down a source, check citations, etc. In fact, Langsdale has teamed up with Google to show our own full text resources within Continue reading For Faculty: Google Scholar – Soon you can track your own citations
Staff are working on Langsdale’s annual report for FY2011, which we hope will be released in September. In the meantime, here are a few numbers: 1,387,916 items retrieved from online databases 91,265 guests visited the library 141,793 users visited the Continue reading Langsdale by the numbers
Tina Fey’s memoir, Bossypants, has arrived at Langsdale Library. Part of the leisure reading collection, this popular title can be requested from the library’s catalog. Fey’s feminism informs her humor, according to Adele Marley, a library technician at Langsdale, who Continue reading Tina Fey’s Bossypants at the Library
Langsdale has been working hard this summer to make the library more study-friendly. Last semester we mixed things up by moving the Circulation and Reference desks to accommodate more study tables on the first floor, and we have since added Continue reading Need study space? We’ve got it!
Almost 120 years ago descendents of those who fought in wars before the American Revolution formed the Society of Colonial Wars “to perpetuate the memory of those events, and of the men who, in military, naval, and civil positions of Continue reading Book Recommendation