This event took place on Thursday, September 17, 1981 in the Carlos C. Alden Court Room located in John Lord O' Brian Hall on the Amherst Campus.

Remembering the Past - Promoting the Present

"For every institution of higher learning the one perennially indispensable possession is a library." -- Chancellor Samuel P. Capen

This website celebrates the acquisition in 1996 of the three millionth and three million and first volumes in the University at Buffalo Libraries. 1996 is also the sesquicentennial of the University at Buffalo (which was founded in 1846 as a medical school) and of its Libraries. In honor of these events we are using today's technology to remember the past of the UB Libraries.

On the pages that follow you will find the program for the October 20, 1996 celebration, the Libraries history (including a time line and brief historical tidbits), photographs of library scenes and of all the library directors, reproductions of the title pages of important UB print library publications that the Libraries have created.

The original web design of this site was constructed by Ellen Greenblatt, Daniel Sweeney and Diane Marie Ward in 1996. Portions of the site were updated in 2007.