University at Buffalo: Reporter

UB Archives to receive Love Canal records; public reception today

The University Archives, University at Buffalo, will hold a public reception today at 4 p.m. to honor its receipt of records belonging to the Ecumenical Task Force of the Niagara Frontier that document the Love Canal and toxic waste issues on the Niagara Frontier.

The reception will be held in the archives, 420 Capen Hall on UB's North Campus.

The donated records document the controversy over the Love Canal and other hazardous waste issues in Western New York from 1978 to the 1990s. The collection is extensive, stored in 97 record boxes and containing an estimated 300,000 pages of documentation, including numerous reports not readily available elsewhere. The University Archives anticipates that the collection will be heavily used by researchers interested in the environmental, public policy and engineering aspects of the Love Canal.

The UB Archives also holds the Love Canal collection of Adeline Levine, UB emeritus professor of sociology. That collection contains the research and correspondence for her 1982 book, "Love Canal: Science, Politics and People," a study of the citizen action that took place over the Love Canal issue.

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