Librarian makes the front page!
UB gets a new librarian — October, 1962. Not sure why this new librarian article didn’t make the TOP of the front page!
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UB gets a new librarian — October, 1962. Not sure why this new librarian article didn’t make the TOP of the front page!
The library graced the cover of many issues of UB’s student newspaper in the 1960s and 70s. While scanning the student newspapers for Langsdale Library’s Special Collections I discovered the library on the front page of a number of issues. The Continue reading The hub of the university…
Before the new Langsdale Library can be built, the old Langsdale Library had to be built… The image above is from a 1965 issue of UB’s student newspaper. I’ve been scanning the archival issues from the 60s and 70s which Continue reading “…behind every great university stands a library…”
Did you know that Langsdale Library offers a list of all of our newest materials? We do! Each month we’ll post an update letting you know about a few select titles, but there are far too many to mention here Continue reading New Materials at Langsdale
Carol Vaeth, Langsdale Library’s Book and Document Delivery Supervisor, will retire on June 30th 2015. Carol has worked at Langsdale Library for over 30 years, commencing in October of 1984. Most folks at UB and across the USM, will remember Continue reading After over 30 Years of Service, Carol Vaeth to Retire
Did you know that Langsdale Library offers a list of all of our newest materials? We do! Each month we’ll post an update letting you know about a few select titles, but there are far too many to mention here Continue reading New Materials at Langsdale
As mentioned in a previous blog post, the WJZ-TV and WMAR-TV Collections at the Langsdale Library hold approximately three hundred 2-inch Quad reels that are in need of digitization to preserve their unique audiovisual content. One of these reels was digitized recently Continue reading The Soul of Baltimore
In 1977, “The Archbishop’s Ceiling,” a play by the American playwright Arthur Miller, premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In the play, three friends seek to convince an Eastern European author to defect to the West. Having Continue reading The Walls Have Ears
Did you know that Langsdale Library offers a list of all of our newest materials? We do! Each month we’ll post an update letting you know about a few select titles, but there are far too many to mention here Continue reading New at Langsdale
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