What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
Can you beat this score? Probably. The sliding tile game, 2048, has been all the rage in social media since it was introduced by the Italian programmer Gabriele Cirulli in March. Just for fun, here’s a special customized Langsdale Library Continue reading 2048: it’s not just for squares
On the left is is portrait of R. Loran Langsdale, for whom Langsdale Library is named. He has been peering out over the circulation desk in Langsdale Library for years. But now that we are operating on the 3rd and Continue reading Where’s Langsdale?
Our third floor move. So it’s finally happening: Langsdale is–right now, as I type–moving. Our shelves are slowly being emptied of their books, office dust bunnies and lost, favorite pens revealed as the movers move file cabinets and bookshelves. Traffic Continue reading Pardon Our Dust
A few days have passed since the closing night of the 16th annual Maryland Film Festival (MFF), and the overall consensus seems that it was a huge success–despite lacking The Charles as a venue. In its stead, there were several Continue reading Baltimore in Shades of Grey
via Post Typography Langsdale has a lot going on this weekend. For one, it’s finals season, with all that that brings: students frantically looking for articles to finish papers, desperate sprints through the stacks for books they forgot they needed, Continue reading 2014 MD Film Fest at Langsdale
Significant election at Washington, June 3, 1867 (Library of Congress) Last week, UB students voted in the Student Government Association elections. On the ballot were candidates for the positions of president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, as well as senators from the Continue reading Election Season is Here!
Darn that American Library Association and their need to make the focus of National Library Week as broad and all-encompassing as ever! This year’s theme for National Library Week (April 13-19) is: Lives change @ your library [sic]. Well, sure Continue reading All Hail National Library Week!
National poetry month is really kind of a sad affair. Fiction doesn’t get a month. Film doesn’t either. And TV—are you kidding. They get that section of the year that lasts (and I’m approximating) the entirety of every year, year Continue reading National Poetry Month and the Snot-Nosed Kid
This Friday, April 11th, is the final day for students to get in Inspired Discoveries applications. Find out more here.
Long before the invention of the word ‘blog,’ there were people willing to write a journal or diary, a place where the writer shared similar thoughts, memories and emotions only with themselves and the page. My father, John D. Chetelat, Continue reading Blog about a Vintage Blog