SEPTEMBER 17, 1998-vol30n4: A rich lode of attractive and informative Web sites at UB

VOLUME 30, NUMBER 4 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1998

A rich lode of attractive and informative Web sites at UB
"Virtual UB" offers high-quality information, visual interest on subjects from the new to the old

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

Where information-technology is concerned, there is something you should know about UB. Not only are a large number of faculty members and staff IT-literate, "virtual UB" boasts many exceptionally informative, clearly-designed and attractive Web sites. The following is a sample of what's available on UB's Web sites.

-Graduate School of Education, www.gse.buffalo.edu/

For color, clarity and speed, this is one of the best sites at UB. Simple, confetti-colored navigating icons keep viewers focused while directing them to specific locations. Program envelopes are logically organized and the entire site is easy to negotiate. This is a very user-friendly site.

-School of Architecture and Planning, www.arch.buffalo.edu/

An attractive site, well-organized (note the site index), with considerable depth of information. Some faculty data are missing, unfortunately, including photos and descriptions of research and teaching interests. Where faculty and project sites are linked, however, they are often quite arresting and include portfolios that add to the site's fine visual content.

-Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG), www.womenandgender.buffalo.edu/

IREWG is new entity at UB but already up and running online. This site beautifully represents the idea of an interactive community of scholars. Colorful, welcoming, warm, good-looking, the site describes the concerns and research of women faculty members. The Web site also is gateway to a well-researched and well-organized selection of the best international Internet sites on women and technology, education, research, feminism, social change, women's studies, health, support networks, services and many, many others.

-CEDAR: The Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition, www.cedar. buffalo.edu/intro.html

The page has clear, good-looking Web design, uses visual cues to organize large bodies of information for reading and browsing and includes bibliographies, dissertation abstracts, industrial affiliations, faculty and staff, and research projects.

-Center for Hearing and Deafness, wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/ chd/about)

On top of everything else, its handsome visual design suggests the clinical depth of the center and the dignity with which it regards its patients, many of whom are very young. Parent-friendly.

-The UB Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), wings.buffalo.edu/epc/

In addition to terrific graphics and photos, this site is filled with well-organized information on the programs and people who put UB's English department on the international map. It has links to many info sources on contemporary poets and poetry plus special sections: UB's unique Program in Poetics, the EPC sound room, EPC gallery of poems, tapes of interviews UB's groundbreaking NPR program LINEbreak, links to the Poetics Program's journal RIF/T. This site picks up where the superb CD-ROM, "Poetry In Buffalo," produced by the Poetry/Rare Books Collection leaves off. ublib. buffalo.edu /libraries/units/pl/50years/index.html will show you a few screen shots.

-Tap into a well-illustrated, nicely condensed description of UB's famous Poetry/Rare Books Collection, ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/pl/

It is the most complete collection of 20th-century poetry in English and English translation in the world and includes first editions, holographic manuscripts, notebooks, printers proofs, paintings, letters, drawings and personal memorabilia of such luminaries as James Joyce (one of the best collections in the world), Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Robert Graves, Wyndham Lewis, Robert Duncan, Joel Oppenheimer and others. Big collection of literary 'zines, as well as decades of local literary publications. The site offers a good run-through of the holdings.

-UB Archives, ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/archives/

The UB archivists can take you on quite a ride through the history of UB, Western New York and many of the issues that have affected both over the last 150 years. Learn about the Quaker, Mormon, feminist and spiritualist movements of the 19th century, the Lone Ranger and Love Canal. Specialties include: UB history and publications, Frank Lloyd Wright and Darwin Martin; women's organizations in WNY, popular culture, and a host of faculty collections.