The Daily Bulletin

In keeping with Buffalo State College’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) initiatives, Butler Library has acquired and developed several new collections that support teaching and scholarship on topics surrounding diversity and inclusion.

Access to the Adam Matthew Race Relations in America primary source collection was added last year. Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys, and analyses produced by the Race Relations Institute of Fisk University, including those of Charles S. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.

The library has also added access to the Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940. This collection supports the knowledge of gender studies and sexuality education and enables academic scholars to make new connections in LGBTQ history, activism, and other related disciplines of research.

The library has also begun to highlight resources from our collection in our new Reading Lists. These collections of important works are browsable through a new interface embedded directly in Primo, the library’s search tool.

Collections include JEDI, climate change, and new faculty publications. If you have an idea for new collections to highlight, please email the library.

In July, the library will add a new collection of almost 5,000 diversity and ethnic studies e-books from leading university presses and academic publishers. Notable titles include

• Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race
• Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
• No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s

Please contact Joe Riggie, head of information management for the library, with questions about the collections.