Love Canal web library exhibit and Web site

[Frederick W Stoss <fstoss@acsu.buffalo.edu>]

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Library Exhibit Highlights Love Canal

On August 2, 1978, New York State Commissioner of Health, Robert Whalen,
declared a State of Emergency at Love Canal and ordered the 99th Street
School closed. He also required that a clean up plan be undertaken
immediately and recommended that pregnant women and children under two who
live immediately around the Love Canal landfill should move.


The Science and Engineering Library (SEL) at the University at Buffalo (UB)
provides an exhibit that recounts the chemical contamination of the Love
Canal. The exhibit describes what has happened in the 20 years since
citizens evacuated the site. Love Canal @ 20 places into a historical
perspective the role information plays in the ongoing saga of the Love
Canal.

The SEL Love Canal @ 20 exhibit is in two parts. The first is a sample of
newspaper headlines and articles from The Buffalo News, the Buffalo Courier
Express, and The Wall Street Journal that stimulated and sustained local
and national interest on the issue. Included with this local focus are
other resources that were generated after the relocation of Love Canal
residents, including items from the Ecumenical Task Force of the Niagara
Frontier, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the
New York Department of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, Time
magazine, the U.S. Senate, and the Love Canal Homeowner's Association.
These resources are from the University Archives Ecumenical Task Force:
Love Canal Archives, ca. 1979-1990, a 250,000+ page collection of
information related to the Love Canal. More information on this unique
collection, the Love Canal Archive, is available at
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/archives/love_canal/.

The second part of the SEL Love Canal @ 20 exhibit fast-forwards to 1998,
and features a broad spectrum of information and data resources that are
available in the Science and Engineering Library (SEL). A majority of these
information resources did not exist at the time of the Love Canal incident.
In some cases these data and information resources were created to fill the
information and data voids
that were identified as a result of Love Canal and related incidents. The
information highlighted in this part of the exhibit includes, reference
resources (e.g., handbooks, desk references, guidebooks and dictionaries),
standards (e.g., environmental monitoring, field procedures, and laboratory
methods), technical reports and periodical literature (e.g., professional
journals, trade magazines, and newsletters).

An online electronic version of the Love Canal @ 20 exhibit can be found on
the SEL Web site at

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/exhibits/lovecanal.html

This electronic exhibit site includes a listing of Internet resources
devoted specifically to the Love Canal and to other environmental sites at
international, national, sate, local, and UB campus levels.


The SEL Love Canal @ 20 exhibit and its electronic version were created by
Fred Stoss and Carole Ann Fabian. The Science and Engineering Library is
located on the second and third floors of Capen Hall on the North Campus of
the State University of New York University at Buffalo. SEL specializes in
scientific and technical information for biology, chemistry, computer
science, engineering, geology, mapping, physics, and technology. Marilyn
Moody <moodym@acsu.buffalo.edu> is Director of SEL.

SEL main Web page http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel Exhibit URL:
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/exhibits/lovecanal.html
Comments to: fstoss@acsu.buffalo.edu

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Frederick W. Stoss, M.S. (zoology-ecotoxicology), M.L.S. Past-Chair,
American Library Association Task Force on the Environment Past-Chair,
Special Libraries Association Environment and Resource
Management Division
Biological Sciences Librarian
Science and Engineering Library -- Capen Hall -- Room 228-B SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-2200
716/645-2946 ext. 224 -- 716/645-3710 FAX fstoss@acsu.buffalo.edu
SEL URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/
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