What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
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
UB Faculty members Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak and Elizabeth M. Nix recently published Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City. This book offers chapters on events leading up to the turmoil, the riots, and the aftermath Continue reading UB Faculty publish Baltimore ’68
If your own skin didn’t already inform you that it’s warm outside, there’s that overhead hum-drip of window-mounted air conditioners, the shimmering of heatwaves on every concrete surface, and the street vendors hollering about ice-cold snowballs and $1 bottles of Continue reading Baltimore Summer Events!
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
Forty years ago the University of Baltimore established the Baltimore Regional Institution Studies Center, a repository of the history of modern Baltimore as chronicled in the records of institutions and memories of individuals. Working out of old Howard Hall, BRISC Continue reading The Baltimore Region Institutional Studies Center +40
The National Council of Public Historians awarded the Baltimore ’68 Riots and Rebirth Conference with the 2009 NCPH Outstanding Project Award for excellence in work that contributes to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past and that serves Continue reading Langsdale and Baltimore ’68 honored by National Council of Public Historians
Citizen Schaefera Maryland Public Television documentary on UB Alumnus and former Mayor and Governor William Donald Schaefer aired last Monday and will air again Wednesday, April 8 at 9 PM on MPT. (see: www.mpt.org/schedule/series.cfm?series_id=17520#201592 ) This documentary makes excellent use Continue reading Langsdale’s Special Collections are being put to good use
The Election Resources Guide has been updated with information on the upcoming Baltimore City Primary and General Elections, as well as links to local media coverage. Surf on over to: http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/election_guide.htm