What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
From the University of Baltimore’s 1972 yearbook, page 11 Exactly 42 years ago today, John Waters’s feature film, Pink Flamingos, premiered at the Langsdale Library auditorium. The event was sponsored by the 3rd annual Baltimore Film Festival. The following is Continue reading Happy Birthday, “Pink Flamingos”
The Langsdale Library would like to officially introduce its newest Internet Archive presence. As is stated in its mission, the non-profit Internet Archive “is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a Continue reading Partnering with the Internet Archive
Breaks in the academic calendar are important in Special Collections because they allow time for in-depth research. It’s common for faculty and graduate students to take advantage of their time outside the classroom to develop theses, dissertations, peer reviewed articles, Continue reading Academic Syncopation
Something to get you through the week: Mr Bean doing what Mr Bean does, only in a library. For more information on Langsdale’s Special Collections, click here. Or, to read some posts about the things they do, click here.
Paul Moscatt in his studio, via website What do a bunch of artists holed up in an old, bottle-cap factory have to do with librarians holed up in the Special Collections Dept. of Langsdale? More than you might think. Let’s Continue reading Station North, and Those that Make it all Artsy
Langsdale’s Special Collections department has been very busy with efforts to honor the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech. Digital Archivist Aiden Faust worked with Continue reading Langsdale honors anniversary of 1963 March on Washington
Langsdale Library is pleased to welcome its new Head of Special Collections, Ben Blake, to the team! Ben was selected after an exhaustive national search that drew candidates from far and wide. He brings over 12 years of experience working Continue reading New Head of Special Collections: Ben Blake
With such success last summer finding out information about the staff of Langsdale Library, we are bringing you four new faces from our library staff for you to “get to know.”This past winter, Phil DeLoria, the University Archivist in our Special Collections library, Continue reading Get to Know: Phil DeLoria
Past the glass cases lined with Grecian urns and Roman armor, past the gift shop and the cafe dressed in Medieval stone archways, past the bronzes of Buddhist saints and paintings of Hindu gods, there are rooms at The Walters Continue reading The Walters Goes Digital
Langsdale Library’s Special Collections has been working in partnership with the UB Post staff and student workers to make a collection of back issues of the student newspaper kept in the university archives available online. Recent digital back issues and Continue reading UB Post Available Online