What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
Playscale-sized patron Shironeko is new to Langsdale. She visited the library over spring break and was pleased with all the new signage she encountered. It made finding her way around the library a snap! Of course her pal– library services Continue reading Signs point to “Yes!”
If you are interested in American history, there are numerous good books,websites and documentaries available to peruse. Still, there is perhaps nothing quite like the sense you can get from reading or listening to an important document or speech and Continue reading American Decades: Langsdale’s reference ebook of the month
When you need to fact-check information, there’s a lot of options: Snopes investigates rumors like “Nabisco is producing Fried Chicken Oreos”(false, by the way) LazyTruth is an app you can use to debunk stories in chain emails FactCheck.org uncovers claims Continue reading Searching for the Truth
Photo credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Bill Hrybyk “Mikulski’s legacy starts with the ‘battle of the road.’” That’s the Baltimore Sun headline that caught my eye on the iPad this morning. Columnist Dan Rodricks highlights the roots of Senator Barbara Mikulski’s Continue reading Roots in the Road Fights
Photo Credit: Kaitlyn Veto Left Bank Books, an independent bookstore in Saint Louis, Missouri responded to the Ferguson protests with “a community curated list of books that explore race” in the United States. That project, known as Black Lives Matter:A Reading Continue reading Reading: Black Lives Matter
Libraries have always been concerned with protecting people’s privacy. Some say that, in our online world today, privacy is dead and we should resign ourselves to this unfortunate fact. Not so. If you are concerned about protecting your privacy online, Continue reading Who is watching you online?
Are you looking for “date movies” with which to woo your sweetie this Valentine’s Day? Or do you just want to kick back with a cinematic love-a-thon regardless of what the calendar reads? Langsdale has you covered with a vast Continue reading Romantic Reels
There’s a very dominant narrative in our culture that online is forever. We warn young adults to be careful about what they post on social media lest it wind up in the hands of future employers. But not everything is Continue reading Not everything is forever online!
There have been a few blog posts written before about the WMAR-TV and WJZ-TV Collections, but today I would like to discuss the process of actually finding and accessing an AV item that is requested. First, how might researchers even Continue reading Finding AV in Special Collections