Archives & Special Collections Updated

The Archives and Special Collections page has a new look!  In addition, the page now features a new search interface, and some collection descriptions have been expanded.

Visit the World Digital Library

The World Digital Library features primary documents and materials, international in scope, including manuscripts, rare books, maps, audio recordings, photographs, films, and more. Developed by the U.S. Library of Congress and UNESCO.

The site can also be found on the library’s Find Multimedia page and subject guides.

April Showers & May Flowers: Spring Themed Open Mike

The Rooftop Poetry Club invites you to attend April Showers & May Flowers: Spring Themed Open Mike on Wednesday, May 6th. Gather up your spring themed poems and join us for our last event of the Spring semester.
International Students Reading Area, 3rd Floor, SE Quadrant, Butler Library, 4:30 pm. (If the weather is nice, we’ll meet in the library’s rooftop garden area.)

Butler Library Presents “Green Talk” Workshop Series

Expand upon your eco-knowledge and join us for Butler Library’s “Green Talk” workshop series! All workshops will take place from 12:15 – 1:00 p.m. in Butler Library room 208, unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, April 28th

Earthly Cleaning

Presented by Mary Jo Graham

Some of the chemicals most hazardous to our health and Planet are found in cleaning products kept in our own homes. Drawing on the wisdom of our foremothers, learn the secrets for making your own cleaning products from readily available, safe, healthy and Earth-friendly ingredients. You can eliminate these toxins and save money while keeping squeaky clean!

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Thursday April 30th

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Presented by Deb Cohen of Urban Roots Community Garden Center

Urban Roots Community Garden Center is a consumer cooperative business whose mission is to provide quality products for gardening in the City of Buffalo. Join us in learning container and windowsill gardening techniques. Seeds and peat pots will be provided, as well as great information on how to get your own garden growing. There will be a drawing for a free window box and seeds. If the weather permits, this workshop will be held in the Rooftop Garden area of E. H. Butler Library (2nd floor entrance).

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Tuesday, May 5th

Buffalo ReUse!

Presented by the Buffalo ReUse Crew

Buffalo ReUse is a Green Demolition crew/company that provides job training for at-risk young adults. Buffalo ReUse invests in the community by helping people stay in their homes. They do this by providing low-cost used building materials that can be used for property maintenance and which would have otherwise been thrown into landfills. The ReUse crew also educates the community on environmental stewardship and collaborates with other community-based organizations in the City. They facilitate activities such as tree plantings, street blitzes and community gardens.
Check out the Buffalo ReUse blog:
http://buffaloreuse.wnymedia.net/blogs/category/neighborhood-beautification/
and photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/buffaloreuse/sets/

Come find out more about Buffalo ReUse and opportunities to become involved in your community. Join us Tuesday May 5th, 12:15- 1:00 p.m., E. H. Butler Library Rooftop Garden (in case of inclement weather, the group will meet in Butler Library 208). Hope to see you there!

One Long, Wild Conversation: May 2nd Book Launch and Signing

Professor Emeritus Fraser Drew and Distinguished Alumnus Hank Nuwer have collected 40 years of their correspondence into a new book! Join us in celebrating the publication of One Long, Wild Conversation: Selected Letters Between a Buffalo State Professor and His Student, a Writer on Saturday, May 2 at 1:00 p.m. in the Director’s Conference Room (BL134) of E. H. Butler Library.

English Professor Fraser (Bob) Drew was the first Buffalo State professor to earn the coveted State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Award. At 95 he resides in the Buffalo area. To inspire students he corresponded with author Ernest Hemingway, and poets Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Langston Hughes, and John Masefield. His Hughes letters and other gifts to the college reside in BSC’s Butler Library Special Collection. He is the author of a scholarly volume of Masefield’s work.

Social critic and writer Hank Nuwer is best known for his four books on hazing in society. He resides in Indiana and is a member of the BSC Class of 1968. He maintains a Hazing Collection at BSC’s Butler Library, the only scholarly collection in the world devoted to scholarship on hazing. His interviews with David Mamet, James Dickey, William Least Heat Moon and Kurt Vonnegut frequently get cited in scholarly studies.

One Long, Wild Conversation: Selected Letters Between a Buffalo State Professor and His Student, a Writer was published through E. H. Butler Library and the Monroe Fordham Regional History Center.

MLA Handbook Undergoes Major Revisions

The seventh edition of the MLA Handbook, published by the Modern Language Association, has just arrived and presents significant changes in MLA format. There are two copies of this new handbook on Reserve and one copy at the Reference Desk in the Information Commons. Here are some links to useful sites that provide more information on the changes:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/
http://www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/citingmla.htm

If you are using MLA style, please ask your instructor which edition you must use. If it is permissible to use the sixth edition, handbooks will be kept at the Reference Desk for the remainder of the semester. We also have print copies of a library-generated handout outlining the major points of the sixth edition, plus a link on the library home page to an electronic version of the same.

http://www.buffalostate.edu/library/docs/mla.pdf

Exhibit: Antique Science Instruments

By Nick Dalacu
(Display cases, upper lobby)
This exhibit was on display April 2009.

During the month of April the Library is featuring a unique exhibit of Antique Science Instruments, courtesy of Nick Dalacu, founder of the Niagara Science Museum located in the 1910 National Carbon Co. office building at 3625 Highland Avenue in Niagara Falls, NY. This exhibit contributes to the dissemination of the role of science instruments for a more and more exact understanding of the physical world we live in. It educates us in our encounter with science. We can appreciate the preservation of antique instruments. At the same time this important cultural event is entertaining.

Calling Earth…National Cell Phone Recycling Week

Wondering what to do with your old cell phone? Don’t just let it sit in the back of your junk drawer– recycle it! Recycling the 100 million cell phones that are no longer used annually would save enough energy to power 18,500 US households for a year (epa.gov/cellphones). National Cell Phone Recycling Week runs April 6th- April 12th. Program partners including AT&T, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless, are rolling out a series of in-store promotions while providing in-store and online recycling opportunities to assist consumers in the “eCycling” process. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, cell phones and accessories are made from valuable metals, copper, and plastics which require energy to extract and manufacture. Recycling cell phones reduces greenhouse gas emissions and conserves natural resources.

For information on where to recycle your unwanted phones, please refer to the EPA’s website
Convenient drop-off locations and mailing options are available.

Paper Doesn’t Grow on Trees: Reusable Paper Drive

How does your paper pile grow? In honor of Earth Day 2009, April 22, E. H. Butler Library will collect all recyclable paper that has been generated in the library. During the week of April 20th- 26th, join us in emptying your recycle bins (paper only) into our Paper Doesn’t Grow on Trees display located in the library lobby. The paper collected in the display will be reused to create scratch pads for students. While contributing to the display, take a moment to reflect upon a “green resolution” that you’d like to incorporate into your lifestyle (such as “I promise to use a reusable water bottle” or “I promise to shut down my computer when I leave the house”) and help us decorate the tree branches with “green promises.” For more information, visit the display in the library lobby beginning April 20th.

WNY Environmental Alliance Seeks Youth Volunteers

Our area’s youth are needed to serve as Change Leaders in addressing environmental challenges. Please consider attending the April 4th (beginning at 9am.) Environmental Congress at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Event organizers are seeking to hear from YOU to demonstrate that environmental issues ARE important to your generation. Your involvement in this process will have a measurable impact in the years to come!

The Community Foundation has convened a coalition called the Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA). The goals of the alliance are to establish a shared agenda for our environment; identify priorities for focus and action; and strengthen the capacity of the region’s environmental organizations. The Community Foundation is hosting three environmental congresses to facilitate the development of the shared agenda. The date and topics for the 3rd Congress is shown below:

Saturday, April 4, 2009, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Implementation and Beginning Projects: Which issues are most important and how do we move forward?

Participants will gain insights into best practices for implementation strategies and collaboration; partake
in a discussion about strengths and limitations of proposals identified by task groups across issues; and help identify the most important issues for a shared agenda and immediate next steps.

Each congress is free, open to the public and includes light refreshments. To register, groups and individuals should contact Linda Montileone at (716) 852-2857 or LindaM@cfgb.org. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .