Featured Database: Aluka

(The following description is taken from their Web site).

“Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Our name, ‘Aluka’, is derived from a Zulu word meaning ‘to weave’, reflecting Aluka’s mission to connect resources and scholars from around the world.

“Aluka seeks to attract high-quality scholarly content about Africa from institutions and individuals across the globe. By contributing their collections to the Aluka platform, content owners will have a means of offering access to their collections to an international audience—without having to develop and support their own technology platforms. Aluka’s web-based platform provides powerful tools for research, teaching, collaboration, and knowledge exchange.

“The Aluka website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. By aggregating these materials online, the Aluka collections link materials that are widely dispersed and difficult to access, opening up new opportunities for research, teaching, and broader public discussion. One of Aluka’s primary objectives is to provide African scholars and students with access to scholarly materials originally from Africa, but now out of their reach.”

Exhibit: Landscape Photographs from Extraordinary Places

By Laurence Trott
(Circulation gallery, lower lobby)
October 2007

Excerpt from the description provided by the artist:

Larry has been a landscape photographer for many years but kept his work private until the last few years. His lifelong love of music and nature and his 30+ years as a meditator have shaped his perspective. When seeing his pictures the viewer senses his clarity of purpose, glorification of the moment, and insight into the unity of all things.

Exhibit: Hertha Ganey Historical Children’s Book Collection

(Showcases, lower lobby)
This exhibit was on display in October 2007

An assortment of materials from the Archives and Special Collections of Buffalo State.

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Exhibit: United Nations Day – Fifth Annual Peace Conference

By Students of Wendy Scott
(Display cases and wall case, upper lobby)
This exhibit was on display in October 2007

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Writer’s Compass Literary Group/Halloween Reading Event

Dear Rooftop Poetry Club Members,

The Writer’s Compass literary group, a student run group and publication here on campus, is planning a Halloween event on October 30th to promote the fall issue. It will be a reading (poetry, prose) in the bookstore at 5 pm. We were wondering if any of your members would be interested in reading or at least attending our event.

Please check out our myspace page (we are in the process of developing a webpage) for more information on our publication.

If you know anyone who is interested in reading, they can contact me at this address or at write2live@peoplepc.com.

Thanks!

Christina Surdi

Media Pick: The Civil War

The Civil War, Ken Burns’s highly celebrated PBS documentary, is a nine-part series that explores one of the most important conflicts in the history of our nation. The collection is available for check out in Media Services. Viewing rooms are available for your convenience.

Related items in the library catalog >

PBS’s Web site >

This is the Media Pick of the Month for October, 2007.