What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
From the upcoming Langsdale Link: Aiden Faust, digital collections librarian in Special Collections, has received a Baltimore Renaissance Seed Scholars Fund Grant for his proposed oral history project to document the involvement of artists in the development of the Station Continue reading Oral History: Station North
“House of Knowledge” by Jaume Plensa If the internet or blogs were old enough to have what one might call a tradition, we can be sure that it would be predominantly based in retelling what is new, what is breaking Continue reading The Wizard and the Great Zeitgeist
A mobile division of the New York Public Library Getty Images / Universal Images Group/via Image Quest I’ve always been fascinated by the seemingly endless repetition of phenomena that after my eye has been drawn to just one occurrence, no Continue reading Rhyming Libraries and Loops
On the move: Arabbers on Baltimore streets (Sept-Oct 1969) The Special Collections Department is often an overlooked resource at Langsdale Library. It doesn’t help that it is located on the fourth floor, housed behind locked doors and open by appointment Continue reading Discovering Our Hidden Resources
Launched in 2010, Historypin is a historic photo mapping website and mobile app that aims to “create a digital history of the world” through user-generated content. Special Collections at Langsdale recently added a small sampling of our digitized photographs to Continue reading Participating in Historypin
Here in the Special Collections department, we often hear the question, “What kind of stuff do you have?” With 134 archival collections in over 6500 boxes on our shelves, that question can be a bit tricky! From our website, users Continue reading Representing Collections
Staff in Special Collections at Langsdale have been working with MICA students from Dan D’Oca’s 2010-11 Exhibition Development Seminar as they prepare their exhibit, Baltimore: Open City, which opens this Friday at the former North Avenue Market and runs through Continue reading Upcoming exhibit mixes art, archives, & politics
Among the items in President Obama’s State of the Union Address was a promise to reorganize the U.S. government. The President citied his “favorite example” of odd organization to laughter from members of Congress. “The Interior Department is in charge Continue reading Consider the Salmon, and also the CRO