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Lack of summer employment got you down? Looking for cheap entertainment? Expand upon your cultural knowledge and explore our art, music, and video databases—all of which are freely available to Buffalo State students, faculty, and staff. Get comfy with your laptop and search famous museum collections, watch dramatic productions, discover new music, and more! Our music databases even have a play-list feature which allows you to save and stream your favorites from any computer (with your Buffalo State user name and password). And don’t forget to check out Media Services for a wide range of DVD’s and CD’s, including the 101 Greatest Screenplay Collection. Grab your lemonade and make this “the summer” for art, theatre, and music!
This growing collection features thousands of hours of material from the History Channel, Bullfrog Films, PBS, 1940s & 1950s newsreels, archival and public affairs footage, documentaries, and more. Covers American history from the early history of Native Americans through 1988.
Digital images and information about visual art, including architecture, photography, painting, sculpture, and design from many times and cultures. While you’re feeling artsy, why not spend an afternoon touring the new Burchfield Penney Art Center? Admission is free with your Buffalo State ID. 
A growing collection of paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, drawings, architecture, textiles, decorative arts and more, from prominent art museums (including the Albright-Knox). Images from many cultures and time periods are available.
Over 5,000 academic-level educational streaming videos covering most subject areas, from Films Media Group.
Comprehensive digital online collection of over 100,000 music tracks and sheet music files. Includes the following sources: American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, and Jazz Music Library. Note: The following streaming music sources, available as separate databases, will be added to Music Online Listening later in 2009: African American Song, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.
Includes a variety of genres including classical, jazz, world/folk, and new age, with liner notes and background information.
Index to multidisciplinary digital resources from over 1,000 open archive collections. Formats include digitized books, images, audio, video, and datasets. Links provide access to many of the digital objects.
Art reference sources including Grove Art Online, an encyclopedia covering visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present.
Streaming video of over 250 dramatic productions and documentaries about theater, covering works from Sophocles through 20th century playwrights. Includes the complete works of Shakespeare, many produced by the BBC.
Speaking of Shakespeare— have you checked out Shakespeare in Delaware Park yet? The festival has been a Buffalo summer tradition since 1976. Julius Caesar plays July 23rd- August 16th. Shows are FREE Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:30pm. For more information see http://www.shakespeareindelawarepark.org/
Need to brush up on your Shakespeare? Check out Literature Criticism Online, which includes over 100 volumes of Shakespearean Criticism.
For those of you interested in the life of Walter Cronkite, the library offers his biography “A Reporter’s Life,” along with a number of other 
In celebration of the 40th Anniverary of the Apollo 11, check out 
Jazzman’s Café at E. H. Butler Library will be closed from Saturday, July 25th – Monday, August 24th for remodeling. We apologize for any inconvenience! As always, snacks and beverages are available at library vending machines, and at the Student Union.
Need a hand carrying all of your school supplies? E. H. Butler Library is thrilled to introduce our new tote bag, designed by our talented Web Designer Dennis Reed, Jr. The sturdy cotton canvas bag will be available for purchase at the Circulation Desk this fall.
