I'll be one of the artists drawing at this big exquisite corpse event next weekend here in Buffalo

Tomorrow is Kids Day: Volunteers will be selling Kids Day editions of The Buffalo News at Tops Markets throughout WNY to benefit Oishei Children's Hospital. Here is one of the stories of hope and healing featured in the special edition.

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One of the most slippery and ambiguous terms in libraries & archives is "record." Has been so stretched out to encompass so many definitions that librarians have to clarify right away what someone has in mind when they ask if there are records of X. 🗃️📚

A quick reminder about our event next week. It's important, and it's free and open to the public.

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

AI Search Has A Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... via @columjournreview.bsky.social

Spoiler alert: wearing my very best dress shoes to my retirement party tonight

The Seneca Chief departs Canalside to embark on its educational journey across the state on the Erie Canal in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joed Viera: buffalonews.com/multimedia/c...

How librarians beef with each other. 📚🗃️📜

The handcrafted replica of the Erie Canal boat Seneca Chief left Canalside on Wednesday to re-create a historic journey along the Erie Canal.

Legal Advice Clinic, Thursday 09/25 Join us at Saint Stanislaus Church on Thursday, September 25th from 4:30-6:30 PM for FREE LEGAL ADVICE! Open to all, no appointment necessary. Location Details: Saint Stan’s Church Social Hall 389 Peckham St Buffalo, NY 14206 (corner of Fillmore Ave & Peckham St)

Look what we have here then.

Props to these kids. bsky.app/profile/susa...

Oh, good.

As the media landscape changes, what local journalists do every day continues to mean a lot to our community. What lies ahead for WNY will be the topic of our event next week, which is free and open to the public. Please join us.

If you're a #Buffalo photographer & you want to sell your work, you probably want to focus on postcard fodder: beloved buildings, landmarks, harbor, Olmsted Parks.

The sun rises as tank cars rest on the tracks in the rail yard behind the Cargill grain silo on the Buffalo River in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joed Viera buffalonews.com/multimedia/c...

Warm, but not too warm. Dry, with few events rained out. And dazzling sunshine, day after day. Some are calling it the best summer we've had in a long time.

D'Youville University is seeking city approvals this week for both its new medical school in downtown Buffalo and a new residence hall to be constructed on the West Side site where it originally began to build that school.

The Herbert C. Jackson, a bulk carrier, navigates the Buffalo River in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by @joedviera: buffalonews.com/multimedia/c...

Welcome to the world of “inclusions,” an ecosystem known to archivists the world over in which they come across all sorts of things readers have purposefully or inadvertently left between a book’s pages. Recently at the Library, the objet du jour was... a snakeskin. 🐍 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/09/...

This summer, #UBuffalo students turned WNY into a climate lab! With guidance from professor Sophie Nowicki, 15 students studied Lake Erie ice, shoreline erosion and past climate shifts, tackling challenges facing the Great Lakes and beyond. Read more: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/news-and-eve...

I am embarrassingly excited about Cotterfest

Once again forgetting the tags. #genealogy 🗃️📚📜

Are there places in the US where a state or local historical society, as opposed to a government agency, is where you go if you need copies of vital records?

Back in the 1980s you could write a whole scholarly history on the Iroquois confederacy, who we now call Haudenosaunee, as though they were one undifferentiated population.

The NLG is receiving more and more verified reports of federal agent door-knocks and contacts. If you are approached by federal law enforcement, don’t be afraid to alert your community.

In Buffalo, it is WNYO.

I’m guessing this is the tug that will be pulling SENACA CHIEF from Buffalo to Albany as part of the Erie Canal Bicentennial. Largest non-barge vessel I’ve ever seen on the river. Niagara Thursday. #ErieCanal200

Today begins the process of removing interpretive assets across National Park Service sites that violate the president's EO. If you work for the NPS, please let me know what, if any, changes are taking place at your site. No names will be used. Thank you. #NationalParks 🗃️ cwmemory.com/contact-me/

More of a typing thing. 'Photograph' always comes out 'photogarph.'

I pre-ordered Dennis Duncan‘s _Index, A History of The_ long ago, but I’ve fallen way behind on my 📚, so I’m only just now reading it — and this chapter on index satire + sabotage is hilarious! 🤣 I think we should revive punk book criticism in the form of mock indexes :)

Buffalo’s love affair with the Robert Redford film “The Natural” has never seemed to dim in the more than 40 years since the film was made here, but it will become a little more wistful now with the announcement of the actor and filmmaker’s death on Tuesday at age 89. buffalonews.com/life-enterta...

Martin House volunteer Peter Darrigo walks by “Fiat Lux,” an immersive art installation created by Cheyenne Concepcion inside the Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion, in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joshua Bessex: buffalonews.com/multimedia/c...

Did you know that today is Constitution Day? The holiday is celebrated every year on September 17, the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. This painting of the event is by Howard C. Christy, an artist best known for his magazine work. The painting has hung in the US Capitol since 1940.

Filmed in #Buffalo in 1983.

This National Hispanic Heritage Month, we celebrate the incredible contributions of Hispanic and Latino team members who help build a stronger, safer workplace every day. Safety and health are values we all share. By working together, we create an environment where todos prosperamos.

Anybody know how to block bot scrapers at WordPress sites?

For those who didn't know, this facility is in Batavia.

A state board recommended that 20 properties and districts to be added to the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

This big beautiful non-native bug is a growing pest for Northeast U.S. gardeners & esp wineries But a new study reveals an #agroecology answer: milkweed This monarch butterfly fave intercropped w/ grapes kills 60-80% in 24 hrs: projects.sare.org/sare_project... Might boost monarch numbers too?

New online, #Buffalo Orphan Asylum index, 1880-1939. #genealogy 🗃️📜 tinyurl.com/TBHM-BOA-index

For extra points, name where the giant loaf float is parked.

Get your babcia what she needs at Euro Deli. Ukrainian, Polish, and Baltic groceries, yogurt, cheese, beer, Reubens, smoked fish, daily cake selection, dried mushrooms, bread, ice cream, and 12 flavors of pierogi, including cherry and cheese-and-pepperoni. Euro Deli, 4166 Union Road, Cheektowaga.

As we often say in the library & archives biz, ownership is not access. Not until stuff is organized & inventoried or indexed.

Silo City grain elevators, #Buffalo, NY