September | 2025 | Special Collections & University Archives
3 posts published by hornbakelibrary during September 2025| Special Collections & University Archives
3 posts published by hornbakelibrary during September 2025| Special Collections & University Archives
By Elizabeth Busch, project archivist for the Hugo Keesing collection at SCPA. The start of a new semester is often frantic. From starting new classes to catching up with friends after a summer apart, there’s always a lot to do. Take some time to relax with this selection of slower-paced albums and singles related to … Continue reading Fall is in the air *and* in the archives: Autumnal recordings at SCPA| Special Collections & University Archives
by Anna Christine Jones Even some of our smallest Labor collections can tell big stories! Following our previous post about the Frontlash collection, we’re excited to highlight another collec…| Special Collections & University Archives
The Special Collections & University Archives department at University of Maryland acquires numerous archival donations every year. We coordinate among our team of staff, faculty, and students to organize documentation of each accession, describe each accession, and finally to provide access to new collections online. In 2023, we began a revamped initiative to share our … Continue reading New Collections: NPR portraits, community and student records| Special Collections & University Archives
by Anna Christine Jones One of the many collections that the Labor collecting area at University of Maryland’s Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) stewards is a large, 37 linear foot…| Special Collections & University Archives
by Rosemarie Fettig Welcome to the second installment in our series featuring the Labor audiovisual collections! In our last post, we followed the collection materials on their journey across campu…| Special Collections & University Archives
by Rosemarie Fettig The Labor collections in UMD’s Special Collections and University Archives hold miles and miles of paper records, but did you know that this collection includes archival materials in other formats, too? When the George Meany Memorial Archives was transferred to UMD in 2013, their holdings also included thousands of films, videotapes, and … Continue reading Labor AV Blog Series: Post #1| Special Collections & University Archives
By Divya Vashisht During my time at Special Collections and University Archives, I’ve had the opportunity to observe archival collections in action, utilized in instruction sessions to promote both research skills and the importance of curiosity. I continue to learn more about the preservation and process behind our materials, which inspires me to grow as an … Continue reading Special Collections Spotlight: Bastille Day| Special Collections & University Archives
by Noah Foster Over the course of the spring 2025 semester, I worked as an intern with Special Collections as part of my College Park Scholars capstone project. I became interested in Special Colle…| Special Collections & University Archives
by Divya Vashisht At the end of April, the Hornbake Library Letterpress Printing Studio opened its doors to Students Archivists at Maryland (SAM) and students from UMD INFO College to set type, ink, and press their very own print from one of the Library’s newly acquired printing presses. Along with this hands-on experience, SAM learned … Continue reading Printing at SCUA’s New Hornbake Library Letterpress Studio!| Special Collections & University Archives
When you visit the reading room to view an archival collection, have you ever stopped to consider all the steps it took to get the materials into your hands? The truth is, collections don’t arrive in Special Collections in those clearly labeled, folder-filled boxes that you see on your cart. There are a lot of … Continue reading Notes from the Processing Table: The Welford D. and Carole W. Taylor Collection| Special Collections & University Archives
By Dorothy Tang, Maryland Historical Collections (MDHC) student assistant and MLIS student in UMD’s College of Information The Capital Centre was an indoor sports and music venue in Landover, MD th…| Special Collections & University Archives
by Jasper Nash and Rosemarie Fettig In Summer 2024, SCUA published a brand-new finding aid for over 260 linear feet of materials from the Tobacco Workers’ International Union (TWIU) records. Here’s…| Special Collections & University Archives
A new exhibit is opening September 9th in the Special Collections exhibit gallery, located on the 1st floor of Hornbake Library North. Homegrown: An Introduction to the Environmental Justice Moveme…| Special Collections & University Archives
By Christian Folk, Project Archivist, American Bandmasters Association Research Center The papers for conductor and music educator Don R. Marcouiller (1925-2018) have recently been acquired and are…| Special Collections & University Archives
I occasionally search eBay at home for vintage photographs of unheralded women in broadcasting. For example, I’ve previously purchased photos of two early NBC television producers. (More abou…| Special Collections & University Archives
