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Spooky Special Collections
Buffy could show you a thing or two about primary source research. Libraries are often the focal points for the spooky, mythical, and gruesome. Special Collections are no different, and we’re...
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Spooky Special Collections: Rare Books
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are a few photos of the rare books featured in our latest Spooky Special Collections display. Visit the Maryland Room in Hornbake Library to see...
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Ghostly Encounters: Have you met the McNamees?
Reblogged from Terrapin Tales: Are you following our spooky posts about campus ghosts? Creeped out yet by the spectral spirits of Morrill Hall and Marie Mount Hall? Keep reading - the best is yet to...
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Ghostly Encounters: A night at the Rossborough
Reblogged from Terrapin Tales: In honor of Halloween, we saved the spookiest story for last. Take a look back at the previous weeks for more ghostly tales: week 1, week 2, week 3, and week 4. We...
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Yuletide Books: On display now in the Maryland Room
Get into the holiday spirit than by visiting the Special Collections Literature and Rare Books Collection in Hornbake Library! On display now in the Maryland Room are books written by celebrated...
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The World’s Fair Ephemeral and Graphic Material Collection
The World’s Fair Ephemeral and Graphic Material Collection is now available at the Maryland Room, 1st floor Hornbake Library. To celebrate, we are featuring four blog posts about World’s Fair history...
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Revealing La Révolution: Digitized Pamphlets Accessible through WorldCat
By Technical Lead John Schalow, Special Collections Cataloger/Coordinator The University of Maryland Libraries’ French Pamphlet Collection is currently accessible through an inventory. But if you are...
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AFL-CIO Archives now available at UMD
The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive is the largest single donation to the University Libraries and complements other labor-related collections in our libraries. To find out more about related...
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New Material Available from the AFL-CIO Collection
This week we’re re-opening 6 more sub-record groups and a small number of selected Labor History publications! See other available portions of the collection or contact us to plan your visit. Newly...
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Revealing La Revolution: The Environmental Scan & MARCedit, Part 1
As the interim Curator of Literature and Rare Books I am writing the Environmental Scan for the French Pamphlet Project. Two tools I have found very useful to help with this are MARCedit and Microsoft...
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Revealing La Revolution: The Environmental Scan & Microsoft Excel, Part 2
As you now know I began my tenure as the interim Curator for Literature and Rare Books by trying to get more familiar with cataloged items in Rare Books and Special Collections by creating a...
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The Early Printing Collection: An Introduction
A page from the Cologne Chronicle, printed by Johannes Koelhoff the Younger in 1499. A new (very old!) collection of early printing has now been processed and digitized, and is available in the Digital...
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Announcing “A Colony in Crisis”
We are happy to announce the debut of the Colony in Crisis website, where you will find a collection of digitized and translated French pamphlets dealing with the Saint-Domingue grain shortage of 1789....
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Pride at Work records at UMD
We are excited to announce that the University of Maryland is now the repository for the records of Pride at Work! Labor Archivist Jennifer Eidson packs up boxes with Pride at Work’s Executive Director...
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Featured Collections: Fall 2015
Expect the Unexpected Did you know that we have collections right here on campus to help you learn more about black history and literature? African American Literature Black Judgement by Nikki Giovanni...
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Halloween Comes to Special Collections
Looking for devilishly entertaining rare books? Visit Hornbake Library this week to view two Halloween-inspired exhibits featuring our most frightful items from Special Collections and University...
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New Additions to Special Collections
New acquisitions to Special Collections and University Archives includes several private press books including The English Bible, printed at the Doves Press, as well as Don Quixote and Spenser’s Faerie...
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Alice in Special Collections & University Archives
Curious to discover more about Lewis Carroll and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Visit the Maryland Room to view Alice-related material from Special Collections and University Archives in Hornbake...
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Curator Pick: Favorite Item from the Alice 150 Exhibit
How could I possibly choose one item out of so many amazing ones as my favorite?! Early on, I digitized the majority of the items that are in the exhibit, allowing me time to really look through every...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Speech to AFL-CIO
In 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and leader of the civil rights movement, spoke at the AFL-CIO’s Fourth Constitutional Convention. Though...
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