The Office of Digital Collections and Research (DCR) of the University of Maryland Libraries supports the teaching and research mission of the university by facilitating access to digital collections, information, and knowledge. This is accomplished through enhancing access to selected library resources through the development, maintenance, and preservation of digital collections; by serving as a knowledge resource within the university for digital library issues and development; by participating in national and international initiatives which further the development of new forms of scholarly communication, tools, standards, and applications; and by providing training and support in digital library standards and formats.
Date: May 16, 2008
Kate Murray presents “Sticky-shed, Dropouts and Warping: Issues in Preserving Your Audiovisual Collections.” This talk, sponsored by the MLA’s Academic Research Libraries division, addresses the broad issues in preserving audiovisual media, including the exploring the unique challenges inherent in audiovisual collections, examining survey and assessment tools, and discussing a variety of migration strategies to continue access to content. The presentation focuses on digital reformatting policies at UM Libraries.
The Office of Digital Collections and Research and the Maryland History and Culture Team at the University of Maryland Libraries are proud to announce the launch of The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography.
The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography consists of citations to articles, books, and doctoral dissertations about various aspects of Maryland’s history and culture, divided into a set of standard subject categories. The citations are gathered from scholarly journals, local and state history-related newsletters and magazines, subject indexes to monographs and journals, publishers’ catalogs, and electronic databases, among other sources.
Genealogy-related works are not included unless they are of a more general nature, for example, indexes to various types of vital records or Civil War muster rolls.
The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography is primarily based on the annual bibliography of Maryland history sources that appears in the Maryland Historical Magazine. Citations in the bibliography date from the mid-1970s through 2002. Past compilers: Dorothy M. Brown and Richard R. Duncan (1973), Richard J. Cox (1974-1982), William LeFurgy and Peter H. Curtis (1983-1986), Anne S. K. Turkos and Peter H. Curtis (1987-1991), and Anne S. K. Turkos and Jeff Korman (1992-present). Annotations were added as part of the original Maryland Humanities Council project. Updates will be added in 2008 and in regular intervals thereafter.
The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography database was originally created by the Maryland Humanities Council in 2000. The University of Maryland Libraries assumed responsibility for the continued access and updating of the database in 2008.
Please explore the site and send us any feedback, questions and comments at http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/collections/mdhc/contact.php.
The Office of Digital Collections and Research and the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection are proud to announce the launch of The National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection.
From a “colorized” view of Luna Park, a great Coney Island amusement park that burned in 1944, to the long-ago streets of Baltimore, the National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection preserves unique and engaging images of people and places in early twentieth-century America. These postcards also provide unique evidence of the evolution in American architecture, with rare glimpses of buildings or places that may no longer exist or have dramatically altered over time.
The online collection represents a small sampling of the approximately 20,000 postcards available in the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection. The Libraries will continue to add images to this collection.
For more information about the entire collection please visit http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/postcards.html.
Please explore the site and send us any feedback, questions and comments at http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/contact.jsp.
