Langsdale Library Blog

9/09/2009

Librarians involved in return of UB's Alma Mater

Librarians Bob Pool (Law) and Tom Hollowak (Langsdale) played an integral role is rediscovering UB's song, entitled only Alma Mater, and introducing it to the class of 2013. The story was recently featured in Baltimore's Daily Record.

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5/22/2009

Staff member Aiden Faust wins UMCP award

Langsdale's Project Archivist Aiden Faust has received the Laurence B. Heilprin Award for student research at the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies. Aiden will accept the award at tonight's commencement ceremony in College Park.

Aiden's Archives Trouble: The Case of the Baltimore City Archives won for his research on the turbulent history of the Baltimore City Archives and commentary on the state of municipal records today.

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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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