The Library is excited to present 2 new, innovative services to the UB community.

Streaming Videos
As part of a pilot project we are providing streaming video access to a selection of 50 academic-oriented documentary and educational films. These streaming videos can be used in your classroom or you can have your students view the videos from any PC on or off campus.
We invite you to visit our FAQ.

Watching DVDs on Reserve Over the Internet
Another project we are piloting allows students to watch DVDs that have been placed on Reserve for a class from the comfort of their own home. We have purchased something called a SlingBox which provides the ability for someone to watch a DVD (located in a DVD player in Langsdale) over the Internet. There are some limitations: the Slingbox is not a streaming service and will not allow multiple people to view it at the same time like the educational films mentioned above. However, it will allow people to watch a DVD without having to come into Langsdale, and we can even arrange viewings when Langsdale is closed.

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Langdale's Annual Book and Media Sale will be held on Nov 7-8. On Nov 7, many books will be on sale for $2 (hardbacks) and 75 cents (paperbacks). There also will be some individually-priced items and large format books. The sale will continue on Thursday, Nov. 8 from 9a.m. to 1p.m., when you can take home books for $1 a box. All proceeds from the sale go the University of Baltimore Education Foundation and benefit Langsdale Library.

Update: Thanks to everyone who came to purchase book and who donated them throughout the year. The money raised will be a big help to Langsdale.

September 30- Oct 6 is Banned Book Week. As the American Library Association's website on Banned Books Week says:
"Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met."

Each year, the American Library Association releases its list of most frequently challenged books. Most of the challenges were requests to remove books from a school and public libraries, but challenges occur in university libraries too. In celebration of Banned Books Week, we encourage you to read a "banned book." Here are a few books which have been challenged elsewhere, but are available in Langsdale:

• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut