Welcome to the E. H. Butler Library Blog

The E. H. Butler Library Blog was started in October 2006 as a way to promote public awareness of what our organization does for the Buffalo State College, as well as the local community. It is maintained by the staff of E. H. Butler Library, the library for Buffalo State College. This blog presents convenient access to timely information about the library and its collections, services, resources, and more. It also provides an informal forum for the public to give us comments and suggestions so that we may continue to provide excellent service to the community we serve. The campus community is encouraged to comment on our posts, and to share their expectations of and experiences with the library.  If you need to get in touch with someone in the library, however, please use our contact page.

Contributors

Lisa Forrest
Lisa A. Forrest is a Senior Assistant Librarian for SUNY College at Buffalo and the founding member of the school’s Rooftop Poetry Club. She is the recipient of the 2008 Excellence in Library Service Award from the Western New York Library Resources Council. Lisa’s scholarly writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including American Libraries, A Leadership Primer for New Librarians (Chandos Publishing), Thinking Outside the Book (McFarland Press), Urban Library Journal, and Writing and Publishing: The Librarians Handbook (ALA Editions). A 2007 and 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee, Lisa’s creative writing has been featured in ArtVoice, Buffalo News, eco-poetics, foursquare, Lake Affect, Not Just Air Literary e-Journal, WordWrights, and Yellow Edenwald Field. Lisa’s first collection of poems, To the Eaves (2008), is available from BlazeVox Books.

Ken Fujiuchi
Ken Fujiuchi was appointed to E. H. Butler Library as an Instructional Technology Librarian in the summer of 2005. Ken is a graduate of the University at Buffalo with a Bachelors of Arts in English, and a Masters in Library & Information Science. Prior to becoming a librarian at Butler Library, he was the Lab & Instructional Facilities Coordinator for the School of Informatics Technology Complex, where he provided technical support for the School of Informatics. He also taught as an adjunct faculty for the Department of Library & Information Studies, teaching courses and workshops on Information Technology and Information Retrieval. Research interests include: information storage & retrieval, information literacy, and human-computer interaction.

Dennis Reed, Jr.
Dennis is the webmaster for the library Web site, as well as a print designer, multimedia specialist, and a founding member of the Rooftop Poetry Club. He is an amateur photographer and artist, and professional musician. Dennis took his M.A. in English from Buffalo State in December 2008.