The decision was unanimous. A Treasury of World’s Fair Art and Architecture has won the Worldwide Books Award for Electronic Publications given by the Art Libraries Society of North America. Patricia Kosco Cossard, Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Librarian, is the collection’s creator. The digital library provides access to artifacts, virtual tours and contextual essays covering a broad number of world’s fairs. The awarding committee said Cossard’s work was a grand undertaking and a significant contribution to the arts area disciplines.
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.
