What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
Our renovation is not over yet. Langsdale’s 2nd floor is now home to our Periodicals section. In May, while many UB students were busy graduating and getting ready for summer, staff at Langsdale Library were taking all of our periodicals Continue reading New Periodicals Section
Here are some of the new print titles that you can find in the Langsdale Government Documents Collection: Women in Congress, 1917-2006 (Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 14903) Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 3: Environment, Origins and Population (SI 1.20/2:3) Public Papers Continue reading New Gov Docs Titles: May
Langsdale Library will be closed Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-28. On Tuesday, May 29 we will start our summer session hours.
From Compiler: Wired Blogs:Google To Add Embedded Videos to Default Search Results We’re here at Google’s Searchology event in Mountain View. Google’s Marissa Mayer has announced that the company is launching a new, integrated search experience Wednesday called Universal Search. Continue reading Google Universal Search Launched Today
Here are some of the new titles that you can find in the Langsdale Government Documents Collection: 2005 White House Conference on Aging, December 11-14, 2005: Report to the President and the Congress: The Booming Dynamics of Aging: From Awareness Continue reading New Gov Docs Titles: March/April
The Library of Congress is hosting a new website called Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. They currently have articles from several newspapers in California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. At the present time they Continue reading Historical Newspapers 1900-1910
Intellectual Freedom Z711.4 .I57 2006 Encyclopedia of American Urban History Z711.4 .I57 2006 Wiley Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS Z711.4 .I57 2006 Middle East Conflict Reference Library Z711.4 .I57 2006 Encyclopedia of World History Z711.4 .I57 2006 Atlas of Archeology Z711.4 Continue reading New Reference Books
The April 4 edition of the Baltimore Sun has an article by Gadi Dechter entitled “Baltimore’s Riots Remembered” that details UB’s examination of events in Baltimore following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. You can read about Continue reading Article on UB’s look at the Baltimore Riots
Hot off the presses!!! Langsdale Library now has the brand new (7th) edition of the Turabian Manual, a.k.a. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Where? We have two copies Stacks (3rd floor) LB2369 .T8 2007 – Continue reading New Turabian manual
Great news! The New York Times recently announced that it will give free access to Times Select, including their archives (back to 1851) to people with a .edu e-mail address. Here’s the press release (via the ACRLog): Beginning on March Continue reading New York Times FREE 1981-present