Indie Author Day is Buffalo’s premier independent author event — and part of a nationwide celebration. Free! Join us on Sat., Nov. 15 at the Central Library. Details, registration & program schedule: bl.buffalolib.org/Indie2025 #authors #buffalolibrary #becpl #indieauthors #buffalo

📚 Our libraries need your voice! Take 1 minute to send a quick letter to your Erie County legislator in support of 2026 library funding. Every message counts! 💪

👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/557T8SV

#SupportLibraries #Buffalo #ErieCounty #LibrariesMatter #BECPL

📚 Don’t miss your chance to meet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Eig — live at the
@buffalolibrary.bsky.social

Author of "King: A Life"
FREE & open to the public!
#BuffaloLibrary #JonathanEig #AuthorEvent #LiteraryBuffalo

So, I actually found a list of "fantasy books based on Eastern European folklore." Who knew there were more people like me! Currently reading "Uprooted" by Naomi Novik. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uproote...

📢 In celebration of Black History Month, join us next Wednesday, February 5th at 6 PM in the Downtown Central Library Auditorium for an inspiring presentation by business entrepreneur Don Jones, Founder & Chairman of Verite Capital Partners.
#smallbusiness #becpl #buffalo #entrepreneurship

Join us for 2025 Black History Month activities across WNY! “Together as One: The Journey Continues” will feature the 2nd year of weekly bus tours of local Black History sites every Saturday this February. Reserve your seat: www.bfloafricanamericanmuseum.org

🚀 Attended Entrepreneurs Edge at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center today. #EntrepreneursEdge #SmallBusinessSupport #BuffaloNY

From your friends at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.....

#GoBills!

@buffalo-bills.bsky.social

🌟 Join us in Honoring the Dream! 🌟

The 45th Annual Community Celebration Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will take place on:
📅 Thursday, January 16, 2025
⏰ 6:00 p.m.
📍 Dr. Eva M. Doyle Auditorium, Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library
1324 Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo

#MLKDay #BuffaloLibrary

Excuse the mess as I am still unpacking. I got a new office and it has windows!!!! (First time in my library career that I actually have an office with windows!)

Enjoying my first read of 2025! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709008...

Welcome to the public domain, HALLELUJAH (1929), the first Hollywood studio film with an all-Black cast. This musical drama was selected for the National Film Registry in 2008. 🎞️

Learn more. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025

Also, here is the Trademark of the word "Birkin". As you can see by clicking on the documents tab, there have been some lawsuits and I have a feeling, there will be some more: tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=7...

I don't know if you are aware of the Walmart Birkin Bag drama going on (Tik Tok is full of videos). Being the Patent & Trademark Librarian, I had to look up the design patent. Here it is from the USPTO site: ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-pu...

Not my creation. I saw this on FB. I'm not a Swiftie, but if it gets people to read and try different genres, I'm all for it.

Things you learn when talking to other people in the community:

In the middle of the 19th century, the Cataract House hotel in Niagara Falls was some people’s last stop on the Underground Railroad from southern slavery to freedom in Canada.
youtu.be/-daA27o4TtY?...