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The University at Buffalo, University Archives collects and preserves records documenting the university’s history, as well as the broader Buffalo-Niagara region and Western New York community. In addition to official university records, the Archives holds the personal papers of faculty, alumni, and administrators, as well as materials from local activists, artists, educators, politicians, and organizations.

Holdings span a wide range of formats, including manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, audiovisual media, scrapbooks, and born-digital materials. 

TOXIC ARCHIVES: Voices from Love Canal
Picture of Silverman Library's third floor Love Canal exhibit.

This exhibition presents the poignant and powerful voices of the Love Canal community—residents of Niagara Falls, NY whose lives were forever changed by one of the most infamous environmental disasters in American history.

News & Events
  • Public programming addresses Love Canal legacy
    3/3/26

    The series of events is presented by the University Archives and GSE in connection with the archives' "Toxic Archives" exhibition.

  • Preserving Parkside: University Archives Bring Neighborhood History Online
    3/3/26

    A trove of historic documents chronicling more than four decades of Buffalo's Parkside neighborhood is now available to the public through a digitization project.

  • Bill Offhaus: Preserving UB’s past, one question at a time
    12/30/25

    If you’ve ever needed to confirm a detail about UB’s history—or gone looking for just the right anecdote to bring it to life—chances are Offhaus had the answer. And if he didn’t, he knew exactly where to find it.