A Passion for Collecting
Tuesday, September 15th, 2015Coins donated in 1935 to the UB Libraries Special Collections by Thomas B. Lockwood are part of a larger collection of rare books. A portrait of Thomas B. …
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Opening 9/11: Robert De Niro, Sr. and Irving Feldman: Painter and Poet at UB in the Late 1960s, UB Anderson Gallery
Friday, September 11th, 2015Please join us for the following events in conjunction with the exhibition Robert De Niro, Sr. and Irving Feldman: Painter and Poet at UB in the Late 1960s …
Library Artifact: World War I Horse-Drawn British Ambulance
Tuesday, September 8th, 2015Dr. Evan Calkins, MD, emeritus faculty member, UB School of Medicine, donated this model of a World War I horse-drawn British ambulance, with soldiers, to the History of …
Marie Elia’s “Silence in the Library”
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015Processing Archivist Marie Elia’s “Silence in the Library” was published online in Queen Mob’s Teahouse: “Naming is powerful. A name can be a gift or a burden. Choosing …
Banned Books: Celebrate the Freedom to Read – 2015
Monday, August 31st, 2015Catcher in the Rye… To Kill a Mockingbird… Harry Potter… What’s your favorite book? Chances are good that someone has tried to ban it! Banned Books Week was …
Silver Creek Shakespeare Club
Thursday, June 11th, 2015The Silver Creek Shakespeare Club was founded in 1889 by Rev. Robert Newton Stubbs in Silver Creek, New York. The club was founded to, as Rev. Stubbs expressed, …
A Gift From the Past – The Medical Cabinet of Dr. Jackson
Monday, October 13th, 2014It began with a phone call on a chilly February afternoon. San Francisco-based architect, Brian Grant, telephoned Linda Lohr, manager of UB’s History of Medicine Collection, and relayed …
The YMCA Buffalo Niagara records, pt. 2
Sunday, May 11th, 2014Like so many professionals out there, an archivist’s work is never done, and while the YMCA Buffalo Niagara records obtained new and exciting materials, that was only half …