Special Collections & University Archives @ UMD

Love, obsession, revenge, death, and the impact of choices! Take a look at the different publications of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë here at Special Collections and University Archives. 📖💌✍️ #archives #librarysky #libsky #terps #rarebooks #specialcollections #UMD

Unboxing Innovation January Featured Items: Braille Literacy Month by Ella Sprague Each month, the Special Collection and University Archives (SCUA) team highlights a new collection of items in the current gallery exhibit, Unboxing Innovation in Special Collection…

Our January Featured Item: the Prange Collection Braille Literacy Month!🗞️

Weekly braille newspapers by the Mainichi Shinbun and an artist’s book 'Shedding Light' by Heather Weston!

A little late to posting but stay tuned for February!
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How A Little-Known Law Forever Changed Television Media by Melanie Pincus As a zillenial, I’m familiar with a hands-off approach to communications regulation. The internet era has gone without much federal action to protect young social media users or t…

What better way to start the new semester then with telecommunications laws!📺 #archives #librarysky #libsky #terps #broadcasting #specialcollections #UMD hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/h...

The Labor Audiovisual Collections: A Cinematic Capstone by Rosemarie Fettig At long last, we’ve reached the conclusion of our epic saga detailing the process of moving and making accessible the Labor collections’ audiovisual materials. Thank you to ever…

Our last post in our audiovisual collection series! Learn about the AFL-CIO Education Department Labor Films collection and the many labor films we have here!🎥🐢 #aflcio #libsky #UMD #specialcollections #archives #terps #laborhistory #labor hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/t...

Collection Highlight: Alliance for Retired Americans and Nelson Cruikshank by Anna Christine Jones The Alliance for Retired Americans collection has recently been processed by Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) personnel! Founded in 2001 by the AFL-CIO, th…

SCUA has recently processed a new collection! We have a blog post out on the Alliance for Retired Americans --- give it a read! 📚🐢 #libsky #UMD #specialcollections #archives #terps #laborhistory #labor #aflcio hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/c...

Would Your Network Help You Meet the Queen? Helen Sioussat’s Could by Melanie Pincus “As you can imagine, the requests from people who want to meet the Queen are voluminous,” wrote John Foster Dulles, then secretary of state, to Helen Sioussat, a CBS executi…

We have another awesome broadcasting blog post for you on Helen Sioussat, Director of Talks and Public Affairs for CBS for almost 20 years!🎙️ #CBS #libsky #UMD #specialcollections #archives #terps #broadcasting hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/w...

Check out our new blog post outlining the early history of NBC television! 🎥 hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com
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Your last chance to see Roosevelt Franklin is fast approaching! He will be boxed up and sent home after Thanksgiving break🥀🍂 Our Sesame Street exhibit is only here for another month as well!

#archives #libsky #libraries #terps #umd #specialcollections #sesamestreet

This Saturday Hornbake Library hosted the APHA Chesapeake Chapter Wayzgoose!

#archives #libsky #librarian #specialcollections #letterpress #rarebooks #terps @printinghistory.bsky.social

Our November Featured Item: American Printing History Association Calendars🍂

On display are calendars designed and made by members of APHA — featuring work across the country but esp from print artists in the DMV!

Join us Sat, Nov 15 for the APHA Chesapeake Chapter Wayzgoose! #libsky #archives

Our October Featured Item: the Prange Collection Horror Novels!🦇

Mystery and detective novels written by Edogawa Rampo (江戸川乱歩) and the inaugural issue of the magazine Kuroneko (The Black Cat), published in April 1947.

Stay tuned for the November featured item!
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Unboxing the New Exhibit by Belane Ayelework and Willow Whitaker  The Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) team has been hard at work for the past nine months to plan, create, and install our  new e…

Our newest blog post about our opening reception is now live!!!
Read all about "Unboxing the New Exhibit" here on our Wordpress! #archives #libsky #books 🐢🔥🙌📚

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Had a great time exploring @hornbakelibrary.bsky.social’s new exhibition. Letterpress, labor unions, archivists, and Zip disks. What more could you want! Kudos to the whole team on a great exhibit.

Extra, extra! “Unboxing Innovation” opens TONIGHT at our opening reception! (open to the public on Monday at 10 am) Right now until 8pm, we are celebrating all of our hard work at SCUA to bring this exhibit to light. Hope to see you all there! 🐢🎉♥️🖤💛

Oh yeah...it's all coming together📦Unboxing Innovation opens October 24th!

Thank you everyone who came out to see our Sesame Street Exhibit which is now officially open till the end of the semester! And thank you also to the amazing Susie Tofte for her presentation on the early work of Jim Henson 🐸 #umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd #libsky #sesamestreet

Happy Jim Henson Day! Come visit us in Hornbake for woodblock prints and buttons. And also catch a glimpse of Roosevelt Franklin, the key puppet feature in our upcoming Sesame Street exhibition! 🌈🌈🌈 #letterpress #umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd #libsky #printmaking

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Tomorrow 9/18, from 12-5, swing by the presses at Hornbake Letterpress Studio, BookLab (Tawes Hall), and the Performing Arts Library (the Clarice) to create a broadside in celebration of Type High Day, a printer's holiday! We're testing out some ink colors in Hornbake...

It’s an exciting week for letterpress on campus! Join us Wednesday in STAMP for Constitution Day buttons and broadsides and Thursday at Hornbake, Tawes Booklab, and the Clarice for Type High Day! More to come on both of these events 🐢 #libsky #umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd

Can't wait to unbox what's next! 📦👀
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Post #2 of our summer audiovisual blog series! We get into the storage at Severn Library and its importance for AV materials. Check it out! 🎥 hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/t...
#umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd #libsky #LibSky #labor #activism #audiovisual #specialcollections

Post #1 of our summer audiovisual blog series is on our wordpress today! Learn about the care and management of our AV materials in the Labor collection! hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com
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Vive le 14 juillet! Today SCUA commemorates Bastille Day! Read more about how our collections connect to the French Revolution, featuring items from the Lafayette Family Papers, French Pamphlet Collection, and National Trust Library Historic Postcards Collection! hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com

Here’s a tiny glimpse of our hugee postcard collection! Baltimore postcards celebrating the writing of the Star Spangled Banner and the long fight for American independence from tyrants and kings! 🎆
#umd #umdspecialcollections #Libsky #4thofjuly #archives #umdlibraries #specialcollections

This Juneteenth we’re highlighting Frederick Douglass, the “Founding Father of the Second American Republic.” Douglass, whose statue stands outside Hornbake Library, is one of many liberatory voices we celebrate today.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will.”

Printing at SCUA’s New Hornbake Library Letterpress Studio! by Divya Vashisht At the end of April, the Hornbake Library Letterpress Printing Studio opened its doors to Students Archivists at Maryland (SAM) and students from UMD INFO College to set type, ink…

Did you know Hornbake Library has it's very own Letterpress Studio? Read all about here! 📖😄 #umd #letterpress #printmaking #umdlibraries
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Our final goodbye blog post to Homegrown 😔🥀 read it here! hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/a...

Kermit the Frog set to address University of Maryland's graduating class YouTube video by NBC News

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My students had so much fun looking at these materials! Many thanks to Hornbake and Dr Schollaert!