Nancy Babb

Discovery Services Librarian

135 Lockwood Memorial Library, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260

Office Hours

For assistance, please email babb at buffalo.edu

Discovery services, cataloging, web development

MLS, University at Buffalo, 2001
BA, summa cum laude, Humanities, State University of New York College at Buffalo, 1998

"Who’ll Let the Dogs In? : Animals, Authorship, and the Library Catalog." in Speaking for Animals: Animal Autobiographical Writing, ed. Margo DeMello. New York: Routledge, 2013.
"A Collaborative Web: the Law Library Website as a Tool for Cross-Departmental Technical and Public Services Collaboration and Cooperation," Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 27 (1), 49 – 63, 2008.
"Bibliography versus Auto-Bibliography: Tackling the Transformation of Traditions in the Research Process," Law Library Journal, 98 (3), 2006.
"Friends? Indeed! Library friends groups can support funding, development, and services for your institution," AALL Spectrum, 11 (1), 2006.
With Cindy Tysick. "Writing Support for Junior Faculty Librarians: a case study," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32 (1), 2006.
"Cataloging Spirits and the Spirit of Cataloging," Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 40 (2), 2005.
Various articles and editorial, "ALLUNY Newsletter," 2003-2016.

Research interests include library history and development, cataloging, bibliography, popular culture

American Association of Law Libraries, 2002-
- Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section, 2005-
- Animal Law Caucus, 2010-
  - President, 2015-2016
  - Vice President/President-Elect, 2014-2015
- Computing Services Special Interest Section, 2007-
- Council of Newsletter Editors, 2003-
  - Co-chair, 2006-2007
- Technical Services Special Interest Section, 2002-
American Library Association, 2002-2009; 2015-
- Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, 2002-2003; 2015-
Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York, 2002-
- President, 2010-2011
- Vice President/President-Elect, 2009-2010
- Chair, Newsletter Committee, and Editor, ALLUNY Newsletter, 2006-2012
- Board of Directors, 2005-2009; 2011-2012
- Webmaster, 2004-2017
- Co-chair, Newsletter Committee, and Co-editor, ALLUNY Newsletter, 2003-2005.
On-Line Audiovisual Catalogers, 2004-
State University of New York Librarians Association, 2002; 2017-