{"id":195,"date":"2015-07-16T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/07\/16\/the-hub-of-the-university\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:20","slug":"the-hub-of-the-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/07\/16\/the-hub-of-the-university\/","title":{"rendered":"The hub of the university&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The library graced the cover of many issues of UB&#8217;s student newspaper in the 1960s and 70s. While scanning the student newspapers for <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/special-collections\/\">Langsdale Library&#8217;s Special Collections<\/a>&nbsp;I discovered the library on the front page of a number of issues.<\/p>\n<p>The library regularly hosted speakers and events with a wide range of topics. There was a rally to impeach Nixon, a talk given by a disciple of Gandhi and in 1970 the first-ever Earth Day was celebrated at Langsdale.<\/p>\n<p>The library truly seemed to be the center of campus, even before it was Langsdale Library.<\/p>\n<p>The UB library used to be in Charles Hall and still made it to the front page of the UB student newspaper. Here&#8217;s and example from 1962, when the UB student newspaper was called The Baloo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-s3qkr743utY\/VagTYKHr4SI\/AAAAAAAABOU\/OFBIL4VRdL8\/s1600\/KIC%2BImage%2B0001-4.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-s3qkr743utY\/VagTYKHr4SI\/AAAAAAAABOU\/OFBIL4VRdL8\/s640\/KIC%2BImage%2B0001-4.jpg\" width=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library graced the cover of many issues of UB&#8217;s student newspaper in the 1960s and 70s. While scanning the student newspapers for Langsdale Library&#8217;s Special Collections&nbsp;I discovered the library on the front page of a number of issues. The <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/07\/16\/the-hub-of-the-university\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The hub of the university&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}