UB Libraries Planning Special Exhibitions

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Eight of the nine libraries in the University Libraries system will present special exhibitions in connection with UB’s sesquicentennial and acquisition of the libraries’ 3 millionth and 3 million-and-first volumes.

“Treasures from the Lockwood Library” will showcase contemporary fine press books, those created to be cultural, artistic objects, as well as a means of communication. Some of the major fine presses exhibited will include Georgian Press, a short-lived venture by Richard Ellis; San Francisco’s Grabhorn Press; The Nonesuch Press of London, England, and Stinehour Press. These are not rare materials of great monetary value, said Lockwood Library Director Judith Adams, but examples of printing that conveys both knowledge and beauty. The exhibit is curated by Tim Conroy.

“Treasures in the Music Library” will include such items as concert programs from UB music history and from principal venues in the Western World; posters like that announcing an 1817 concert of Haydn’s Creation, and Georgia O’Keefe’s posters for the Santa Fe chamber music series; source materials documenting the history of American music librarianship; recordings and lectures by UB’s Slee Visiting Professors including Aaron Copland, Leon Kirchner and Ned Rorem; excerpts from the Jan Williams Archive, including correspondence from noted composer Elliott Carter; first editions; manuscripts; a collection of 19th-century full scores, and a reproduction of Sumer is icumen in, a familiar 13th-century rarity from auld England.

“Scientific Literature of 1846” will feature interesting journals and articles from the library’s rich collection dating from the year of UB’s founding. It will include examples of scholarly articles, treatises and popular publications A featured title in the exhibit will be the beautifully illustrated multi-volume set, “Agriculture of New York State” by Ebenezer Emmons, published between 1846 and 1854.

“Historical Images” will feature photos and other images tracing the evolution of the law school, its professors, students and assorted buildings from late 1880s to its present incarnation in O’Brian Hall.

“History of the Health Sciences Library,” “The Bonnie and Vern Bullough History of Nursing Collection” and “The McGuire Historical Medical Instrument Collection.”

“HERE: Fifty Years of Poetry in Buffalo” features important editions, manuscripts and photos of major poets writing in English who have visited, taught or read at UB, contributing to its reputation as a principal hot spot of postmodernism.

¶ “University at Buffalo Sesquicentennial Exhibit: The Founding of the University “ produced and put on line by Christopher Densmore, acting director of the Archives. For the archives’ electronic exhibit, featuring photos, historic documents and other memorabilia:

http:// wings.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/archives/exhibit/

¶ “Remembering the Past, Promoting the Future: 150 Years of Libraries at UB,” an on-line exhibition designed and constructed by central technical services librarian Ellen Greenblatt, with assistance from John Edens and Christopher Densmore. Find it at

http://wings.bu ffalo.edu/libraries/exhibits/3mill/

“UB Libraries: Past, Present and Future,” a look at the UB libraries through photos, objects and memorabilia that demonstrate historical changes in information-search technology.