Those of you studying or interested in urban design and architecture now have access to the recently launched the Rudy Bruner Award Digital Archive. The Bruner Awards “seek to encourage and recognize innovative thinking and excellence in urban design achieved through community collaboration.” The archive offers access to award winning and fully documented urban design case studies.  Search by year or type of project from 1987 to the present.

Check out the various projects here.

The University at Buffalo Libraries offer an array of workshops to help students with his or her research process. Workshop topics include: research strategies (general and subject-specific), citation management software, searching patent literature, SciFinder Scholar, and more! Workshops are offered for beginner and advanced levels for many of the topics.

To discover upcoming workshops, visit the Events and Workshops page.

Is there a workshop that you’d like to see, but is not currently offered? (Leave a comment to let us know!)

The UB Libraries has now updated the iPhone-enabled version of our website to include an optimized search interface of our catalog. Now you can more easily browse our holdings, email item records, and check the item’s availability from your iPhone or iPod Touch.  For more information about our iPhone and iPod Touch-enabled site please view our previous post.

If you have ideas for additional iPhone site content, please contact us.

Lucky by Alice Sebold

Before she wrote The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold published a heart-wrenching memoir detailing how her life changed after she was raped and brutally beaten as a college freshman.

The book’s title refers to a comment made by the police:  Sebold was “lucky” that she wasn’t murdered and mutilated like another girl who was attacked in the same area. While Lucky is not a fun read, it’s not as difficult as one might expect it to be. That’s not to say that the memoir isn’t both brutally honest and graphic.

Lucky begins with the rape, but its scope is much broader. Readers follow Sebold through her recovery, the rapist’s trial, revelations of other rapes (both close to home and further afield), and what might be the most horrific byproduct of the assault and trial. Through it all Sebold’s openness and honesty is what makes the book accessible.

You can find Lucky in the Undergraduate Library (Capen). The Lovely Bones is available in both Capen and Lockwood.