The UB Humanities Institute supports two programs offered by the Special Collections Libraries for visiting scholars and graduate students to use the UB Libraries’ outstanding special and distinctive collections.

UB Rare Books Collection Holds First British Edition of Wuthering Heights.

The Rare Books Collection has acquired a first edition of Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

A rare 1868 horoscope predicting President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment acquittal now joins the University at Buffalo’s Rare Books Collection.

December 16 marks 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen, one of the English language’s most celebrated writers.

Explore 575 years of censorship and resilience in Access Forbidden: Banned and Censored Books, 1549–1940.

The UB Libraries has made available a digital collection, Defence Of Guenevere, featuring 21 original watercolors by Frances E. and Margaret Macdonald.

For more than 14 years, Lasota has been working across departments at UB and honing her skills in special collections.

For Nolan Mattison, a well-preserved collection of ancient coins has become the centerpiece of a transformative research journey.

A General History of the Pyrates is part of the UB Rare & Special Books Collection.