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	Special Collections 420 Capen Hall Marshall, Jones and Park: French History & Culture and the University at Buffalo April 6, 2009 – June 30, 2009 In honor of the visit to UB of Pierre Vimont, Ambassador of France to the US, the exhibit celebrates the distinguished scholars who have held the Melodia E. Jones Chair of French. Marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Chair at UB, its scholars include Maurois, Foucault, Derrida, Butor, Serres, Federman, and the current scholar, Jean-Jacques Thomas. The exhibit also features rare books from the Julian Park Collection, donated by UB’s founding dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.

Josephine Bagatelle	Lockwood Memorial Library The Julian Park Collection: Rare Books Portray French History and Culture April 6, 2009 – May 31, 2009 The exhibit celebrates The Julian Park Collection of rare books bequeathed to UB by the founding dean of its College of Arts & Sciences. Park nourished and developed French studies at UB and his collection particularly brings alive the Napoleonic Era.

Retro-Media: Memory & Memories Lost

Capen Libraries
Retro-Media: Memory & Memories Lost
March 2009 – May 2009

The exhibit highlights the rapid introduction and obsolescence of audio, A/V, visual image, and computer storage media. The role of libraries and archives in preserving and migrating content in old formats is also addressed. See an antique stereoscope, an Eve of Destruction 45 rpm record, eight-track tapes, punch cards, 110 film and cameras, an original Visicalc 8” floppy, and more. How long will Blu-Ray last? An online web version of the exhibition is also available at http://library.buffalo.edu/asl/exhibits/technology/retro-media.html

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University School Songs

Music Library
Baird Hall, 1st Floor
"University School Songs: 1903-2008"
Ongoing

This exhibit, co-curated by Jason Imbesi and Molly O'Brien, provides some historical background on the University's songs: the alma mater, fight songs, hymns, marches, and songs associated with specific schools of the university. The composers and lyricists of these songs include university faculty, staff, and students, as well as locally and nationally known composers. The exhibit also provides brief biographical information about many of the composers.

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Pioneering Photography

Health Sciences Library
Reference Desk area, first floor
"Pioneering Photography"
Ongoing

An overview of the earliest forms of photography and the contributions of several American physicians who had a significant impact on American photography and its uses in medicine.
Curated by Jacquie Keleher

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John D. Rockefeller

Health Sciences Library
"The Rockefeller Foundation: Philanthropy and the Rise of Modern Healthcare"
Exhibit cases, Reference Area, first floor

Traces the support provided by the wealth of John D. Rockefeller for research into areas such as yellow fever and the development of penicillin, and other endeavors such as saving Jewish scientists from Nazi extermination. The exhibit panels showcase the following themes:

Overview:

Rockefeller Foundation Timeline 1912-1950
Yellow Fever/Vaccines and the Rockefeller Foundation
Displaced Scientists from Nazi-Occupied Europe
Howard Walter Florey, Penicillin and the Rockefeller Foundation
Gerald Jonas, author and journalist, lecture poster and book

Permanent Library Exhibits

Capen Libraries
"Exhibit Honoring Wilson Greatbatch"
This permanent exhibit honors Wilson Greatbatch, inventor of the cardiac pacemaker.

"Geology: Minerals from the Frederic Leroy Sievenpier Collection"
A continuing, changing exhibit of mineral specimens from the collection of Frederic LeRoy Sievenpier, a 1934 graduate of UB.

Health Sciences Library
"Art in the Health Sciences Library"
Exhibit 1 - 19th Century Botanical Prints
Exhibit 2 - "Anatomical Art by Vesalius"

"The Tools of Medicine"
Features images of selected instruments contained in the the Edgar R. McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection.

Music Library
"J. Warren Perry Collection"
Approximately fifty items from the larger collection, including framed photographs, artwork, stamps, medallions, and artifacts, on permanent display in the Treasure Room. Permission required for entry.

"The Music Library Poster Collection"
Selections permanently exhibited throughout the Music Library.

Online Exhibits

25th Anniversary of the Dedication of Lockwood Memorial Library
The construction and dedication of the present Lockwood Memorial Library and the original Lockwood Memorial Library, dedicated in 1935.

Albert Einstein
An exhibit of the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's "miraculous year."

Archiving the Ephemeral
The James Joyce Collection at Buffalo.

A Centennial Bloomsday at Buffalo
Highlights from UB's collection of Joyce materials to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, the day Ulysses takes place.

Comic Books in the '50s
Explore one of the most turbulent and
interesting decades in American comic
book history--The 1950s.

Commemoration of the Two Millionth Volume
Celebrates the acquisition in 1981 of the two millionth volume in the University at Buffalo Libraries.

Commemoration of the Three Millionth Volume
Celebrates the acquisition in 1996 of the three millionth volume in the University at Buffalo Libraries.

DNA's Double Helix
50 Years of Discoveries and Mysteries An Exhibit of Scientific Achievement

Earth Day
An exhibit commemorating the anniversary of Earth Day.

ForeverFree
A website honoring the traveling exhibition "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation."

"Illuminations"
Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901

J.M. Coetzee
Former UB faculty member J.M. Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature.

June in Buffalo 25th Anniversary Exhibit
Commemorates 25th anniversary of the founding of the June in Buffalo music festival.

Mount. St. Helens
A photographic exhibit of the 1980 eruption.

Photographs from the J. Warren Perry
Collection
This large collection of photographs provides a striking visual record of many of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century .

Remembering Leo Smit (1921-1999)
This exhibit chronicles Leo Smit's career as composer, pianist, conductor, and educator spanning seven decades of musical life in the United States.

Samuel P. Capen: University Man
Highlights items from the papers of the first full-time, salaried Chancellor of the University of Buffalo. Under Capen's leadership, the University was transformed from a small group of autonomous schools into a modern university of 14 divisions and a central campus.

Science on Stamps
Maiken Naylor's "Sci-philately: A Selective History of Science on Stamps"

Student Life at UB
A brief history of Student Life at UB during the 20th century includes University songs, dorm life, the Unions, Greek life, student activities, and traditional events and dances.

Student Poster Art
Posters created by students in the Spring 2007 and Spring 2008 seminars are displayed here.

Thoroughly Modern Meiko
This exhibit chronicles the life of Muriel Orr-Ewing based on her personal papers collection in the University Archives.

Wislawa Szymborska
An exhibit honoring the 1996 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Women in Science and Engineering
Photographs and biographies of famous women scientists, provides a visual statement to acknowledge the scientific and technical achievements of women.

Women's Work: A Tribute to the Women Who Make UB Work
Focuses on the achievements that women faculty, staff, and administration have made and their contributions to the University at Buffalo over the past 100 years.

Exhibit Support

Last Update: 24 April, 2009