Digital Collections and Repositories

Our Digital Collections website offers options to search and browse our digitized and born-digital content, from historical photographs and manuscripts to performing arts recordings, student newspapers and yearbooks to 21st century email pool reports and archived web content, among so much more. Below are lists of collections in our digital repositories. Many digital objects are not included in designated collections and can only be discovered when searching by keyword or browsing all content. Furthermore, these digital objects represent a small fraction of the unique material available at the University of Maryland Libraries, so contact us to learn more about related material.
Image & Text Repository Collections by Collecting Area
Access digitized archival documents and photos, and continue to check back as we add newly digitized collections here.
Broadcasting
Distinctive Collections
- National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection
- United States Government Posters Collection
- Women's Studies
Labor
Literature and Rare Books
Performing Arts
Politics and Civic Life
Postwar Japan
State of Maryland
- Community Archives
- Gateway to Digitized Maryland Newspapers
- Maryland Map Collection (partially metadata only)
University Archives
Audiovisual Collections by Collecting Area
Explore films, oral history, sound recordings, and other A/V media.
Broadcasting
Literature and Rare Books
Performing Arts
Politics and Civic Life
Postwar Japan
State of Maryland
University Archives
Discover unique databases and content in separately managed collections.
Distinctive Collections
Literature and Rare Books
Performing Arts
Politics and Civic Life
State of Maryland
UMD partners with other organizations to digitize and host digital versions of some of our materials. Explore more digital content through these resources below.
Internet Archive
The University of Maryland, College Park's portal to digitized books at the Internet Archive. Includes textual materials such as University catalogs, yearbooks, and other campus publications; Maryland state documents; and other rare materials.
Chronicling America
The University of Maryland Libraries contribute content to the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, an ongoing effort to digitize Maryland's newspapers. The digital material produced through this program is accessible using Chronicling America, a searchable database of historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70+ years. The University of Maryland contributes a great deal of audio and visual material that is available in this vast online database.
Archive-It
The leading web archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the web. University of Maryland routinely archives a variety of web content to enhance our unique collections.
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The Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM) collects, preserves, and provides public access to the scholarly output of the university. Faculty and researchers can upload research products for rapid dissemination, global visibility and impact, and long-term preservation.