In the News
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Hidden in plain sight, rare coins spend 80 years unseen on college shelf
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015University at Buffalo faculty member Philip Kiernan heard a rumor back in 2010 and went on a hunt for a collection of rare, ancient and priceless Greek and …
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UB students share their on-campus ‘sexperiences’
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015About 23 percent of students claim to have had sex in on-campus buildings other than residential bedrooms, according a Spectrum survey of 837 students. It’s not unusual for …
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Women’s sports history joins online collection
Monday, February 9th, 2015The UB Sports History Digital Collection has more than 500 images of student-athletes, some taken as far back as 1894. The one thing the collection is missing: women. …
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Printing wait time for first week of semester rises 200 percent
Sunday, February 8th, 2015Adam Fries paid for one order of printouts on three separate occasions. Each time he went to Lockwood Library, a printer was down. When the graduate business student …
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Capen renovations are an exercise in patience
Monday, February 2nd, 2015“Delayed gratification” will have to serve as the motto for students using North Campus libraries this year, as “Club Capen” shuts down in order to undergo a dramatic …
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Student soundoff: Capen renovations
Sunday, February 1st, 2015The third floor of the Oscar A. Silverman Library, located in Capen Hall, is closed. This is one of many Heart of the Campus renovation projects across all …
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Interview with Mike Basinski: Curator of the University at Buffalo Libraries’ Special Collection.
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015I caught up recently with my friend Mike Basinski, curator of the University at Buffalo Libraries/ Special Collections. The University at Buffalo website states that the poetry collection …
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Buffalo Alpaca Startup Moving into High Gear with Help from The Foundry
Sunday, January 4th, 2015Anne Bouvier is a Library Scientist at UB with a dream to run a sustainable alpaca farm in the Buffalo area. She wants to produce and sell you …