Maryland Day, UM Libraries

Try Your Hand at East Asian Crafts
View demonstrations of calligraphy in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Make origami figures and try your hand at traditional Chinese character paper cutting.
4th floor.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Groundbreakers: Succeeding Against the Odds
This exhibit highlights individuals who have played critical roles in the histories of the university and the state of Maryland as it relates to diversity, access to public education and civil rights.
4th floor.
10:00am - 3:00pm, ongoing

Democracy at Your Door: Elections and More
Gear up for the 2004 campaigns! Learn about presidential, state, and local elections. Get brochures, voting information, campaign paraphernalia and prizes.
Government Documents, 4th floor.
10:00am - 3:00pm, ongoing

Surf for Business Information
Looking for a job? Want to start a company? Come and discover electronic resources available through the Virtual Business Information Center (VBIC).
Government Documents, 4th floor.
10:00am - 3:00pm, ongoing

Cómo Encontrar Información Sobre Negocios y Empleo:
¿Busca empleo? ¿Le interesa comenzar un negocio? Ven y descubre los recursos disponibles.
Government Documents, 4th floor.
10:00am - 3:00pm, ongoing

Explore the Adaptive Technology Lab
See demonstrations of CCTV 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!
1st floor.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

MITH: We're a Reality!
Enjoy interactive educational games, a poetry slam, showings of "To Dream Tomorrow," and other multimedia arts and humanities projects.
Basement.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

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Take a Terrapin Home
Create your own Diamondback Terrapin to take home.
Lobby.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Stump the Curator
Bring in rare books for informal appraisals and learn how to research book values.
Maryland Room.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Make a Miniature Book
Make a miniature book and learn from preservation staff how to care for and save your own books and collections.
Lobby.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

In the Parlor: The Private Lives of Marylanders
An exhibit that draws on diaries, letters, photographs, and memorabilia to consider how the life stories of individual Marylanders illuminate and reflect larger historical themes. The curator will be on hand to give guided tours.
Maryland Room Gallery.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Preserving Your Family Papers
Come learn strategies for preserving your family papers and memorablia. Experts will be on hand to show you the do's and don'ts of preserving your treasures.
Lobby.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Katherine Anne Porter Room Open House
Take a guided tour of the Katherine Anne Porter Room offered by a Porter Scholar, or enjoy one of these special offerings:
11:00 - 11:30 Porter-era music from the Saturday Morning Quartet

1:00 - 1:30 Katherine Anne Porter interview by Jim Day, 1970s

3:00 - 3:30 Live staged reading of Porter’s short story "Rope"

Porter Room.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Broadcasting Archives Open House
Tour the Broadcasting Archives and see archival treasures documenting the history of public broadcasting and early commercial radio and television.
3rd floor.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Perform Your Own Radio Show
Bring your best radio voice--scripts, microphones and sound effects provided. Participants will be given a tape of their radio debut.
3rd floor.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Anime!
Enjoy a celebration of Japanese Animation, sponsored by the Terrapin Anime Society and Nonprint Media Services.
4th floor.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Filmmakers' Showcase
Ever wonder how a film is made? Come to show-and-tell with local film makers!
4th floor.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

Animation by Kids
Mister GEO of GAVAGATE Animation will share animation created by children in Greenbelt's GAVAGATE Animation Program.
4th floor.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

To Mars and Beyond!
Explore the Red Planet at Dave Theison's Mars Room. Learn about the facts and fictions of Mars, complete with a sci-fi film extravaganza.
4th floor.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

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Don't Miss the Vid Kid Road Show!
Join Maryland Public Television’s Emmy-award-winning children’s show host Bob the Vid Tech and his partner in fun, Brianna, for a live performance of the Vid Kid Road Show in the Big Top Tent on McKeldin Mall. Afterwards, the Friends of the Libraries invite you to meet the performers in person at the Libraries’ Tent for more fun and autographs.
Performances at 11:00 and 1:00

Meet Bob the Vid Tech in person at 11:30 and 1:30

Info To Go
Learn about our Libraries and all that we have to offer.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

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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 1920s. Demonstrations at 10:30 AM, Noon, 1:30 PM and 3:00 PM.
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Piano Room.
10:00am - 3:00pm, ongoing

Treasures from the Performing Arts Library
Enjoy an exhibition of rare and fascinating treasures representing performing arts from the 16th through the 20th centuries.
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, 2nd Floor.
10:00am - 4:00pm, ongoing

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Test Your Arts Knowledge
The Art and Architecture Libraries challenge you to participate in a game to test your knowledge, and be eligible to win an art or architecture book. Free art reproductions and World'sFair coloring pages.
Tawes Plaza.
10:00 am-4:00pm, ongoing

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Library

Will be open for business as usual and may have special activities or displays for Maryland Day 2004.

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Will be open for business as usual and may have special activities or displays for Maryland Day 2004.

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