What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
It is fairly easy to find information on the internet, but how can we find good information on the web? A blogger for Scientific American provides several tips for finding high quality content on the web. Among his recommendations are Continue reading Finding good information online: A Biologist’s perspective
UB Faculty members Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak and Elizabeth M. Nix recently published Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City. This book offers chapters on events leading up to the turmoil, the riots, and the aftermath Continue reading UB Faculty publish Baltimore ’68
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
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!
If your own skin didn’t already inform you that it’s warm outside, there’s that overhead hum-drip of window-mounted air conditioners, the shimmering of heatwaves on every concrete surface, and the street vendors hollering about ice-cold snowballs and $1 bottles of Continue reading Baltimore Summer Events!
Monday, May 2 through Thursday, May 5 we’re offering free coffee and lemonade from 8am-6pm to help get UB students through the end of the semester. We’ve also added more tables one the first and second floor of the library Continue reading End of semester coffee!
Come join us for Inspired Discoveries today from 9am – 3pm in the Moot Courtroom in the Law Center. Twenty-four undergraduates will present their work on 11 original research or creative projects. It should be a great day!
Langsdale is proud to sponsor the second Inspired Discoveries symposium this FridaySchool of Law’s Moot Courtroom. Inspired Discoveries is part of an ongoing effort to recognize and encourage undergraduate research and other academic achievements; the annual event features the creative Continue reading Langsdale co-sponsors Inspired Discoveries Symposium