Recently added to Langsdale's suite of research databases are Opposing Viewpoints and historical coverage from 3 major newspapers: the New York Times (1851-2003), Wall Street Journal (1889-1989) and the Washington Post (1877-1990).

Opposing Viewpoints covers social issues, such as gun control, genetic engineering, censorship, endangered species, and terrorism. Each issue in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center contains a collection of materials on a topic, including viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites.

And stay tuned for more. Langsdale plans to add even more new databases in July.

Our renovation is not over yet.

Langsdale's 2nd floor is now home to our Periodicals section. In May, while many UB students were busy graduating and getting ready for summer, staff at Langsdale Library were taking all of our periodicals off of the shelves on the 3rd and 4th floor and placing them on carts. The carts (with periodicals on board) were taken to the 2nd floor where we then put them back onto shelves. Now, instead of having the journals and magazines intermingled with books, the periodicals are all collected on one floor to (hopefully) make them easier to find.

And we are not finished. All of the books will be consolidated on the 3rd floor over the summer, and the 4th floor will become the home of our Special collections department.

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