Langsdale Library Blog

8/10/2009

Tom Hollowak appears on WYPR's Maryland Morning

Tom Hollowak, Associate Director for Special Collections, appeared on WYPR's Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast on Tuesday, August 4. He talked with Kast about Maryland's connection to Casimir Pulaski, the man honored by Maryland's Pulaski Highway and Baltimore's Pulaski monument. To hear a podcast of the interview or to learn more about Pulaski, see Maryland Morning website.

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4/15/2009

Langsdale and Baltimore '68 honored by National Council of Public Historians

award recipients
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 as a model of professional public history practice.

Tom Hollowak, Associate Director for Special Collections (far left in photo) received the award on April 3 at the Council's annual conference with conference coordinators Jessica Elfenbein, Elizabeth Nix, Kimberley Lynne and Christina Ralls.

Tom also participated in a panel discussion, Community Perspectives: Commemorating Riots & Rebirth in Baltimore & Newark with his UB colleagues and staff from the Newark Historical Society on April 2.

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4/01/2009

Langsdale's Special Collections are being put to good use

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 of the TV News archives of WJZ and WMAR in Langsdale’s Special Collections (see: http://archives.ubalt.edu/wmar/table.htm).

Langsdale’s TV News archives have contributed to two other MPT documentaries within the last year: Moving Maryland Forward: a century of modern highways, produced for the centennial of Maryland State Highways (see: www.mdhighwaycentennial.com ) and Global Harbors: a waterfront renaissance, about the renewal of Baltimore’s inner harbor and its worldwide impact (see: www.globalharbors.org ).

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2/25/2009

Baltimore Sun article features Special Collections material

The Baltimore Sun's Saturday, February 21st issue featured a
story on Rosemont's community activist and archivist Mary Rosemond
who has preserved her community's history in 55 notebooks from 1952 through 2008.
This history is now a part of Langsdale Library's Special Collections Department.
It is being digitized and available on the web at: http://archives.ubalt.edu/bh/series9.htm

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