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Silverman Library Welcome Desk Expands Hours and Services
9/1/25
This semester, the Welcome Desk will pilot expanded services and extended hours. The desk will be open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to midnight.

For 80 years, ancient gold treasure rested undisturbed in UB library
3/11/15
The collection was real: 40 silver Greek coins, three gold Greek coins and a dozen gold Roman coins — one from each era of the first 12 Roman emperors.
U.S. College Finds Priceless Coin Collection — In Its Own Library
3/11/15
For years, the coins sat on a shelf in the school's library, mostly ignored — until a classics professor asked specialists to come to the archive and examine them.
Priceless ancient coins 'rediscovered' at university in New York
3/11/15
A priceless cache of ancient Greek and Roman coins that had become a kind of buried treasure has been “rediscovered” at the University at Buffalo.
U.B. finds treasure trove of ancient coins
3/11/15
One Professor at University at Buffalo found a treasure trove of ancient coins which have been untouched for about 80 years.
The 50th anniversary of the founding of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in 1964
1/22/15
This past Fall was the 50th anniversary of the beginning of The Center of the Creative and Performing Arts.
A Gift From the Past – The Medical Cabinet of Dr. Jackson
10/13/14
Read the story behind Homer T. Jackson's medical cabinet.
The YMCA Buffalo Niagara records, pt. 2
5/11/14
Like 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 of the project.