What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
Our fundraising page– click here to donate Langsdale Library Special Collections is thrilled with the love shown to The White Lung Association Collection! Our link to the White Lung Preservation Project went live this week, and within two days, we Continue reading The White Lung Preservation Project– Wishes Granted (Almost!)
Caitlin sizes up the scene When Caitlin Rathe, a student at University of California Santa Barbara, jetted into chilly Baltimore from the sunny Left Coast last February, she wasn’t entirely sure she was going to find what she was searching Continue reading Welcoming the Fellows, Part 1: Caitlin Rathe
Screen capture of Preserve the Baltimore Uprising online Local cultural heritage organizations and university faculty members are working together to create an online digital collection related to the events surrounding the death of Freddie Gray in police custody on April Continue reading Preserve the Baltimore Uprising
By Guest Blogger, Angela Rodgers-Koukoui I’m very pleased to announce the opening of the Cultural Arts Program photo exhibit next Monday, 2/15 3/7, from noon to 2 pm. The exhibit, which is a collaboration between Langsdale Library Special Collections and Continue reading Cultural Arts Program Exhibit Opens 3/7
A sneak peek at archival records in the Ten Hills Collection Langsdale Library Special Collections is pleased to announce a new addition to the archives, the Ten Hills Collection. Longtime neighborhood resident and Ten Hills history buff, Stephen Israel, worked Continue reading Sneak Preview: Ten Hills Collection
Digital Maryland is a collaborative, statewide digitization program located at the Baltimore Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center with the mission “to facilitate the digitization and digital exhibition of the historical and cultural documents, images, audio and video held Continue reading Digital Maryland AV Conference
The following post was written by Luke Moses, who worked this past summer full-time in the Langsdale Library Special Collections Department. Luke is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. This summer at Langsdale was Continue reading Summer Internship Report in Special Collections
Image adapted from photo by Arash Azizzada Although many archives across the country contain selected materials related to social protest and social change, some institutions have highly specialized collections devoted to documenting the history of protests, riots, uprisings, and social Continue reading Archives of Social Protest and Social Change
Between our WMAR-TV and WJZ-TV Collections, there are about 10,000 U-matic tapes with unique local television content that need to be digitized for preservation–we have started to slowly go through these tapes, starting with the oldest tapes from 1977 and Continue reading Ewww-Matic
The silver reel you see on your right is an example of the first videotape format ever released into the world (as compared to the size of a standard VHS videocassette tape on the left). The name of this format Continue reading The Granddaddy of Video