| Anime! |
| Enjoy a celebration of Japanese animation, sponsored by the Terrapin Anime Society and Nonprint Media Services. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
Ground Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Broadcasting Archives Open House |
| Tour the Broadcasting Archives reading room and see archival treasures documenting the history of public broadcasting and early commercial radio and television. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
3rd Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| C is for Crayon |
| Kids can color their favorite Sesame Street characters at the National Public Broadcasting Archives. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
3rd Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
Young Children |
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| Children’s Literature Discussion – Karen Lange |
| Explore a 400-year-old Chesapeake Bay mystery. Why did so may of the early English settlers at Jamestown die? Karen Lange, Takoma Park Author of “1607: A New Look at Jamestown,” describes what the latest research reveals. Ages 8 and up. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor – Porter Room, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
02:30 – 03:00pm |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Children’s Literature Reading – Mary Amato |
| Come and laugh as Maryland’s award-winning children’s book author Mary Amato reads from her humorous book, “Please Write in This Book,” and leads an interactive game. Ages 9-12. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor – Porter Room, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
03:00 – 03:30pm |
| Audience: |
Young Children |
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| Children’s Story Time – Works by Maryland Authors |
| Join Chadwick the Crab, Ferdinand the Bull, and other Chesapeake creatures for a story time of classic children’s literature written by Maryland authors. Pre-school through second grade. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor – Porter Room, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
11:00 – 12:00pm |
| Audience: |
Young Children |
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| Crochet the Turtle |
| Learn how to crochet your own turtle bookmark with instructors from A Tangled Skein in Hyattsville, MD. Patterns and supplies will be available. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor Lobby, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
10:30 – 11:30; 01:30 – 02:30; 02:30 – 03:30 |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Digital Terp Trivia |
| See if you can answer trivia and find digital images about the University of Maryland. Respond to questions based on your own knowledge, or find clues in the Libraries’ digital collections. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor Lobby, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Explore the Adaptive Technology Lab |
| See demonstrations of closed circuit television magnification, TTY communication and tactile graphics production. Hear how reading, dictation, and organizational software help students. Create your own tactile graphic souvenir. See your name in Braille. Take the tactile challenge. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
Room 1103, McKeldin Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| First-year Book Film Festival: Strange Weather and Its Environmental Impact |
| Films related to environmental issues will be playing at Nonprint Media Services on Dial Access, our electronic distribution and playback system. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
Ground Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Great Performances on the Boesendorfer Digital Piano |
| Watch and listen to the Boesendorfer digital reproducing piano re-create the playing of great pianists from the 1920's. Demonstrations at 10:30am, 12:00nn; 1:30pm, and 3:00pm. |
| Zone: |
Arts Alley |
| Location: |
Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center |
| Audience: |
All audiences |
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| House Detectives: Uncovering the History of Your Old House |
| Ever wonder about your house's past? The National Trust Library staff can help you find out how to start searching for the real story behind your home. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
11:00 am – 02:00 pm |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
| Info To Go |
| Learn about our libraries and all that we have to offer. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
Tent, McKeldin Mall |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Katherine Anne Porter Room Open House |
| Curator of Literary Manuscripts, Beth Alvarez, will be available to give guided tours of the Katherine Anne Porter Room. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
Porter Room, First Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
12:30 am – 2:00 pm |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Make a Book |
| Make a miniature book to take home. See how preservation cares for books in the library, and get information from professionals about preserving and protecting your own treasured books, documents, and keepsakes. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor Lobby, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All audiences |
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| Meet the Turtle |
| Come meet “Champions All!”. Test your knowledge of Maryland sports by identifying the turtle’s images of past and present teams, fans, and stadia. If you get stuck you can ask the artist. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor Lobby, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Nonprint Media Services Open House |
| Visit Nonprint Media's facilities on the ground floor of Hornbake Library. Visitors can view our collection. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
Ground Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
| Perform Your Own Radio Show |
| Bring your best radio voice. Scripts, microphones and sound effects will be provided. Participants will be given a tape of their radio debut. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
3rd Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All audiences |
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| Preserving Your Family Treasures |
| Come learn strategies for preserving your family books, papers, and memorabilia. Experts will be on hand to show you the do’s and don’ts of preserving your treasures. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor Lobby, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| SPUDS! Celebrate the International Year of the Potato |
| The United Nations declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato, to raise awareness of the importance of the potato – and of agriculture in general – in addressing issues of global concern, including hunger, poverty, and threats to the environment. The University Libraries will celebrate this event in several coordinated exhibits in campus libraries. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center; Science & Tech Way |
| Location: |
McKeldin Library; Math Building Rm. 1403 |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Science Adventure |
| Come explore science. Let's play detective and solve a science mystery. Get answers to your general question “how come?” about why, how, and where things work. |
| Zone: |
Science & Tech Way |
| Location: |
Rotunda, Mathematics Building |
| Time: |
10:00 am – 12:00 pm |
| Audience: |
Young Children |
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| Stump the Curator |
| Bring in your rare books for informal appraisals and learn how to research book values. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All audiences |
| Take a Terrapin Home |
| Create your own Diamondback Terrapin to take home. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
1st Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Terp TV Open House |
| Come view films created by Club Terp TV and learn about membership opportunities for students. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
Ground Floor, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Try Your Hand at East-Asian Crafts and Games |
| View demonstrations of calligraphy in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean; make Origami figures; try your hand at traditional Chinese-character paper cutting; writing Japanese Haiku poetry; and attend an East Asian music performance |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
4th Floor, McKeldin Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| Well-Dressed Book Exhibition |
| Learn how to judge a book by its cover while exploring the gilded, stamped, and colorful world of cloth book bindings from the 1800s. Curators from the Well-Dressed Book exhibit in the Hornbake Library Gallery will provide guided tours and a hands-on opportunity to learn how to assign dates to bindings. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
First Floor Lobby, Hornbake Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event; guided tours by the hour beginning at 11:00am |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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| You Wouldn’t Believe… Our Favorite Government Documents |
| Check out this exhibit of quirky, curious, and fun documents from your federal depository library, serving the community’s government information needs for over 80 years. |
| Zone: |
Terp Town Center |
| Location: |
Room 4118, McKeldin Library |
| Time: |
All Day Event |
| Audience: |
All Audiences |
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