Save Money – Use Your Library

Looking for ways to save a little cash? E. H. Butler Library has a wide variety of resources available for free to students, faculty, and staff. From classical music to children’s books– the library offers a wide range of items that can be freely utilized with your Buffalo State ID card.

**Feeling Lost in the Amazon? Instead of spending your hard-earned cash on books you’ll only read once, explore Butler Library’s collection of classic and new books. If you need guidance in locating what you need, one of our librarians would be happy to help! Stop by the reference desk in the lower lobby for assistance.

**Get Smart. Save money on course books by checking to see if the library owns the book! Don’t forget to explore the ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection, which contains over 2,200 academic electronic books, covering many aspects of history and the humanities (mid 1800s – present). Our Gateway to the Classics database contains text from over 200 major works of Western history, literature, philosophy, and science.

**Need a Bedtime Story? Browse the Curriculum Materials Lab for thousands of popular books for children and adolescents. The collection also includes educational games and other media items housed in Media Services, located on the 2nd floor of the library.

**Make It a DVD Night. Media Services offers hundreds of movies on DVD, including the 101 Greatest Screenplays collection. We also have a great collection of documentary films for your viewing enjoyment. Check out our new Theatre in Video resource, streaming over 250 dramatic productions and documentaries about theater, covering works from Sophocles through 20th century playwrights (including the complete works of Shakespeare!).

**Music to Your Earbuds. Much of our music collection can be found in our online music databases. You can even make a play list and listen from home! Click here for a complete listing of digital audio collections. A wide variety of music CD’s are also available for check out in Media Services.

**Do You Compute? Not only is the library a great place to check your e-mail, write up a paper, or scan a document– it also provides computers with up-to-date software such as EndNote, Adobe Creative Suite, and much more!

**DIY. We have books on just about every subject you can think of…crafting, auto mechanics, cooking. Why not learn a new skill today?

**Got Magazines? We’ve set up three “Magazine Exchange” stations in the library—located in the Copier Lounge, StudyQuad, and International Students Reading Area (3rd Floor, SE Quadrant). Feel free to drop off your “gently used” magazines in any of the racks—and take what you’ll read or re-use.

**Get Your Daily News. Stay up to date with our News & Current Events Subject Guide, which contains links to regional, national, and internationals newspapers available in full-text from our Web site.

**Be Artsy. Take the Library’s Art Tour or check out poetry by members of the Rooftop Poetry Club! We also have a wide selection of art and photography books… or explore one of our many high quality image databases.