The University Libraries are pleased introduce Delivery+ , a new document delivery service  available to current UB faculty and staff.  This new service enables faculty and staff to request materials from any UB library on any UB campus, including our electronic collections.

Need a journal article or a book chapter? With Delivery+, a current UB faculty or staff member can simply log on to his/her ILLiad account and submit a request for materials found in any of the UB libraries.

Scanned articles and book chapters are delivered electronically to faculty/staff desktops, while circulating books and media are available for pickup at a UB library circulation desk of the faculty or staff member’s choice. The 24-hour turnaround time from receipt of request (excluding weekends and holidays) ensures that research materials owned by the UB Libraries will be delivered quickly.

For more information, contact Cynthia Bertuca, Associate Director of Access Services for Document Delivery (829-5738) or Anne Bouvier, Manager, Document Delivery/ILL Borrowing Services (645-2812).

37 Shakespeare plays produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985 are now available in streaming format from the Libraries’ catalog.
Ambrose Video has restored the originals for the best possible viewing.
The best way to find this series in the library catalog (http://catalog.lib.buffalo.edu) is to use the ‘All Fields’ search for:
bbc shakespeare and streaming.
Enjoy!

Our new Everything library search engine, powered by the Summon Discovery Service, allows you to search across many separate resources using a single search box. Its breadth of coverage and ease-of-use make it an ideal place for quickly finding research -books, articles, and more – on any topic. When you do a search in the “Everything” tab on the UB Libraries homepage, your search results will appear in two columns: the left side, “Books & more,” are results from our catalog;  the right side, “Articles & more,” are results from our databases.

Looking for a good book to read over the holidays?   Visit Publishers Weekly for a list of  recommendations for best books titles and authors of 2011 including fiction, nonfiction, romance, mystery, fantasy and children’s.  

Join us for a discussion of Louisa May Alcott’s social reform efforts and her involvement in the Underground Railroad

Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 @ 6pm
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
25 Nottingham Court

Kevin Cottrell from Motherland Connextions, Professor Stacy Hubbard from the UB English Department, and Professor Nancy Rosenbloom from the Canisius College History Department will discuss nineteenth century reform movements in Concord, MA and Buffalo, NY. Both Concord and Western New York played major roles in the Underground Railroad and the women’s rights movement, and many famous Concord reformers (Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau) knew and worked with Western New York reformers such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Audience members may want to arrive early in order to view the BECHS exhibit on the Underground Railroad in Western New York.

[The following post was written by University at Buffalo librarian Don Hartman.]

The UB Libraries purchase a fair amount of popular fiction (chiefly New York Times bestsellers and award winning novels) but locating popular fiction can be challenging.  Unlike public libraries, which shelve their fictional works either alphabetically by author’s last name or in categories by genre (e.g. mysteries, romance, historical, Sci-Fi, horror. etc.), academic libraries tend to shelve their fictional works in call number order.  Lockwood Library (the UB library with the largest holding of fiction) shelves its fiction in call number order—which means most fictional works are roughly grouped by author, but with works of criticism/nonfiction interspersed—a far from perfect arrangement for those interested in fiction titles only.

The Libraries’ catalog provides a method for folks interested in browsing the Libraries’ holdings of novels and short stories:

Steps:

• Connect to the Advanced mode of the library catalog.
• Under “Format” click on Fiction, then click on the “Advanced Search” button to run your search.
• For recent popular fiction, go to the right-hand side of the screen and change the “Sort By” button selection to “Date Descending”.
• On the left-side portion of the screen, there are filters for further limiting your search by subjects, languages, genres, etc.

The University Libraries are pleased to announce the arrival of Delivery+ , a new document delivery service  available to current UB faculty and staff.  This new service enables faculty and staff to request materials from any UB library on any UB campus, including our electronic collections.

Need a journal article or a book chapter? With Delivery+, a current UB faculty or staff member can simply log on to his/her ILLiad account and submit a request for materials found in any of the UB libraries.

Scanned articles and book chapters are delivered electronically to faculty/staff desktops, while circulating books and media are available for pickup at a UB library circulation desk of the faculty or staff member’s choice. The 24-hour turnaround time from receipt of request (excluding weekends and holidays) ensures that research materials owned by the UB Libraries will be delivered quickly.

For more information, contact Cynthia Bertuca, Associate Director of Access Services for Document Delivery (829-5738) or Anne Bouvier, Manager, Document Delivery/ILL Borrowing Services (645-2812).

The University at Buffalo Libraries, in cooperation with the Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, are pleased to sponsor and announce the 2012 Undergraduate Research Prize.

The Prize recognizes students who produce significant academic inquiry requiring use of information resources, the University at Buffalo Libraries and the collections. Undergraduate research conducted by individual students or by student teams is eligible.

• Research in all disciplines is eligible for the Undergraduate Research Prize

• Submissions must document use and application of library/information resources in any format (online, print, Web, media, etc.)

• Research conducted in full or part during the period from January 2011 – February 2012 is eligible

• Research projects can be presented in any format (print, web-based, media, database, art works, etc.)

• Prize winning research will be featured on the UB Libraries and Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Web sites.

One $500 prize will be awarded.

For more information and/or to apply, please visit: library.buffalo.edu/research-prize.

The application deadline is March 2, 2012.

Credit: Courtesy of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House/ L. M. A. Memorial Association

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 @ 12 noon
Roundtable & Discussion
University at Buffalo
306 Clemens Hall, North Campus

A literary roundtable discussion about Alcott and her contemporaries, and their views on issues such as slavery, abolition and the Civil War. Participants will be UB Professor Stacy Hubbard; Cristanne Miller, professor, chair and Edward H. Butler Chair in the UB Department of English; and UB graduate students Prentiss Clark and Mike Hurst.