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History

Chronology of the Libraries


Documents

• Freshman Preliminary Course, ca. 1920 [Library Instruction]
• Report of the Librarian, 1922-1923
• Library Budget, 1924-1925
• Samuel P. Capen's Remarks on the Dedication at Lockwood Library, 1935
• Libraries' Annual Report, 1956-1957

Three Millionth Volume Minutes

1. Founding the UB Libraries, 1846
2. What is a Library? (1882-1893)
3. UB Medical Faculty Minutes, 1893-1894
4. Within Five Minutes' Walk: UB and the Professional Libraries
5. A Law Library of Its Own: Development Work, ca. 1908; or, Ownership vs. Access
6. Accrediting Agencies and Outside Reporting, 1910
7. Concerns for the Faculty Library Committee, ca. 1929
8. Flexibility, Micromanagement and the Bottom Line, 1928-1934
9. Creating A University Library, 1922
10. Growing Pains, 1923-1928
11. Faculty Borrowing, 1932-33
12. The Role of a Library: Lockwood Library Dedication, 1935
13. Charles D. Abbott, Director of Libraries
14. Grace Persch, Medical Librarian, On Using the Library, 1937
15. The Centennial: A Look At Budgets And Library Consolidation, 1946
16. Service Excellence, ca. 1950
17. Thirty Years Ago Today: Benchmarking With Annual Reports
18. What Do I Do With This Form? Library Reporting, 1924
19. Library Folklore: The Story About the Pencils Is True
20. The Role of a Professional School Library, 1956
21. (Almost) Thirty Years Ago Today: Libraries, Computing and Audio-Visual, 1967