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🎓UMD Archives |🦀MD History |⚒️Labor & Unions |🎙️Broadcasting
|🌸Prange: Post-War Occupied Japan |📚Literature & Rare Books |
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What does it mean to “keep Maryland weird”?

The mini-exhibit in the Hornbake Lobby and Welcome Desk foyer explores what it means to remember Maryland through the lens of the “weird.”

Learn more about the mini-exhibit at the opening reception tomorrow, September 30, in the Hornbake Lobby from 4-5!
"Keep Maryland Weird" sign and two cases on display in the Hornbake lobby Archival materials and captions on display in a case
September 29, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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If you missed out on Type High Day, never fear, the Letterpress Studio is here! Join us once again in the Hornbake Lobby this coming Wednesday, 9/23 @ 12 pm for our Henson week-themed #Letterpress pop-up! Make and decorate your own mini print and button! #terps #UMD #umdlibraries #printing #libsky 🐢
September 22, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Today is Type High Day! Celebrate with the Hornbake #Letterpress Studio from 1-4pm in the Hornbake Lobby~! You can make your own mini print and decorate it with stamps and linocuts, and make your print a button! Open to all who are interested! #terps #UMD #umdlibraries #printing #libsky🐢🎨
September 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Hey Terps! 🐢 Come celebrate NextNowFest with us at the Hornbake Letterpress Studio on Monday, 9/14 @ 4pm!

You’ll be able to print your very own broadside and see how a 19th century #printingpress works in real time!

#UMD #umdlibraries #letterpress #UMDspecialcollections #libsky
Printed poster held by someone that says "Do Good | Print | Be Kind" and at the bottom, the text reads "Printed by the Hornbake Letter Press Studio 2026"
September 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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Have you wondered what it’s like to work in the archives? Look no further than our newest blog post! Through this student’s experience, get a firsthand look at what it takes to process an archival collection! 📚📝 #libsky #librarians #archives #UMD #terps

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The Intimacy of Archival Processing: A student’s experience with the Ralph Altman papers
by Carolina Jones Witnessing a busy day in an archive’s reading room is a marvelous experience. There is a quiet in the air, but there is also the buzzing static of researchers hard at work, which …
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September 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Happy Pride! Our featured items this month are a collection of pride ephemera from the past 50 years at UMD. Come check them out at Hornbake Library anytime this month!🏳️‍🌈📚 #libsky #archives #pride #terps #specialcollections #UMD
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Unboxing Innovation June Featured Items: Pride Month Ephemera
by Makinsey Hamblin, Eleanor Vander Laan, and Grace Lewis June is Pride Month, so as a team of University Archives student assistants, we decided to explore how UMD has celebrated queer life over t…
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June 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Are you a fan of the mystery and intrigue?🕵 🔍Take a look at our newest blog post on the evolution of detective fiction in celebration of International Sherlock Holmes Day(May 22nd)! #libsky #librarians #archives #UMD #specialcollections #libraries #library #terps #ArthurConanDoyle #sherlockholmes
May 26, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Today is May Day!🛠️ Our featured items this month are some AFL-CIO strike photos from across the nation. Come see them at Hornbake Library anytime this month! #Libsky #archives #MayDay #UMD #terps hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/u...
Unboxing Innovation May Featured Item: Labor History Month
by Sophia Hwangbo and Ella Sprague It’s May, which means that it’s the start of Labor History Month in the state of Maryland. Labor History Month is celebrated in the month of May to honor Ma…
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May 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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🎥 Celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the National Broadcasting Company !! Come visit Hornbake Library where we will have the iconic NBC chimes available to play! #Libsky #archives #UMD #specialcollections #libraries #library #terps
April 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Love, obsession, revenge, death, and the impact of choices! Take a look at the different publications of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë here at Special Collections and University Archives. 📖💌✍️ #archives #librarysky #libsky #terps #rarebooks #specialcollections #UMD
This is an image of showcasing different publications of Wuthering Heights. This is an image of the Wuthering Heights in comic form. This is a smaller book publication of Wuthering Heights and the cover is blue. This is an image of an illustration in the 1983 Oxford Edition of Wuthering Heights.
February 16, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Our January Featured Item: the Prange Collection Braille Literacy Month!🗞️

Weekly braille newspapers by the Mainichi Shinbun and an artist’s book 'Shedding Light' by Heather Weston!

A little late to posting but stay tuned for February!
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Unboxing Innovation January Featured Items: Braille Literacy Month
by Ella Sprague Each month, the Special Collection and University Archives (SCUA) team highlights a new collection of items in the current gallery exhibit, Unboxing Innovation in Special Collection…
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February 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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What better way to start the new semester then with telecommunications laws!📺 #archives #librarysky #libsky #terps #broadcasting #specialcollections #UMD hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/h...
How A Little-Known Law Forever Changed Television Media
by Melanie Pincus As a zillenial, I’m familiar with a hands-off approach to communications regulation. The internet era has gone without much federal action to protect young social media users or t…
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February 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Our last post in our audiovisual collection series! Learn about the AFL-CIO Education Department Labor Films collection and the many labor films we have here!🎥🐢 #aflcio #libsky #UMD #specialcollections #archives #terps #laborhistory #labor hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/t...
The Labor Audiovisual Collections: A Cinematic Capstone
by Rosemarie Fettig At long last, we’ve reached the conclusion of our epic saga detailing the process of moving and making accessible the Labor collections’ audiovisual materials. Thank you to ever…
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January 21, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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SCUA has recently processed a new collection! We have a blog post out on the Alliance for Retired Americans --- give it a read! 📚🐢 #libsky #UMD #specialcollections #archives #terps #laborhistory #labor #aflcio hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/c...
Collection Highlight: Alliance for Retired Americans and Nelson Cruikshank
by Anna Christine Jones The Alliance for Retired Americans collection has recently been processed by Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) personnel! Founded in 2001 by the AFL-CIO, th…
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January 14, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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We have another awesome broadcasting blog post for you on Helen Sioussat, Director of Talks and Public Affairs for CBS for almost 20 years!🎙️ #CBS #libsky #UMD #specialcollections #archives #terps #broadcasting hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/w...
Would Your Network Help You Meet the Queen? Helen Sioussat’s Could
by Melanie Pincus “As you can imagine, the requests from people who want to meet the Queen are voluminous,” wrote John Foster Dulles, then secretary of state, to Helen Sioussat, a CBS executi…
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December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Check out our new blog post outlining the early history of NBC television! 🎥 hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com
#NBC #specialcollections #archives #broadcasting #UMD #terps
December 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Your last chance to see Roosevelt Franklin is fast approaching! He will be boxed up and sent home after Thanksgiving break🥀🍂 Our Sesame Street exhibit is only here for another month as well!

#archives #libsky #libraries #terps #umd #specialcollections #sesamestreet
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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This Saturday Hornbake Library hosted the APHA Chesapeake Chapter Wayzgoose!

#archives #libsky #librarian #specialcollections #letterpress #rarebooks #terps @printinghistory.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Our November Featured Item: American Printing History Association Calendars🍂

On display are calendars designed and made by members of APHA — featuring work across the country but esp from print artists in the DMV!

Join us Sat, Nov 15 for the APHA Chesapeake Chapter Wayzgoose! #libsky #archives
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Our October Featured Item: the Prange Collection Horror Novels!🦇

Mystery and detective novels written by Edogawa Rampo (江戸川乱歩) and the inaugural issue of the magazine Kuroneko (The Black Cat), published in April 1947.

Stay tuned for the November featured item!
#archives #librarysky #umd #terps
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Our newest blog post about our opening reception is now live!!!
Read all about "Unboxing the New Exhibit" here on our Wordpress! #archives #libsky #books 🐢🔥🙌📚

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Unboxing the New Exhibit
by Belane Ayelework and Willow Whitaker  The Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) team has been hard at work for the past nine months to plan, create, and install our  new e…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Had a great time exploring @hornbakelibrary.bsky.social’s new exhibition. Letterpress, labor unions, archivists, and Zip disks. What more could you want! Kudos to the whole team on a great exhibit.
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Extra, extra! “Unboxing Innovation” opens TONIGHT at our opening reception! (open to the public on Monday at 10 am) Right now until 8pm, we are celebrating all of our hard work at SCUA to bring this exhibit to light. Hope to see you all there! 🐢🎉♥️🖤💛
Bookcase of books held within various collections at UMD Prints from Hornbake LetterPress Studio The original Testudo in her glass case on display in the Unboxing Innovation exhibit Archival Activism Exhibit Case
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Oh yeah...it's all coming together📦Unboxing Innovation opens October 24th!
October 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Thank you everyone who came out to see our Sesame Street Exhibit which is now officially open till the end of the semester! And thank you also to the amazing Susie Tofte for her presentation on the early work of Jim Henson 🐸 #umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd #libsky #sesamestreet
October 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM