Digital
French Pamphlets, Education, Thermometers, and Goodbyes
Hey there again, welcome to another blog post from the UMD Pamphlet Project! With the semester coming to a close, we’d like to give a general update with the latest developments from the trenches, provide a couple images from the most recent string of pamphlets, and discuss the next steps for the project going into […]
Unstuck in the Mud: Concrete Tasks for Forward Motion
Last time, we talked about the first steps we were taking to identify the workflows and procedures that need to be teased out and codified as official policies for Special Collections born-digital materials. Over the last month our group has been revising existing policies and drafting new ones where necessary. Given the title of the […]
Born Digital Working Group: Configuring FRED
In mid-March, the Tools subgroup met FRED, our Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device. The subject lines we’ve shared since then (e.g., “tinkering with FRED today”) reflect the approach we’re taking: careful, playful, open-minded. We marveled at all the ports, laid out and photographed the various cables and adapters included in the toolbox, and took turns […]
Born-Digital Working Group: Policies and Procedures for Collecting Born-Digital Material
The Born-Digital Working Group, Policies and Procedures subgroup, has spent February examining the changes we will need to make to existing policies to accommodate born digital material. The goal of the subgroup over the course of the next few months is to: examine current Special Collections policies such as collection development policies, donor agreements, and […]
Alas, poor Metadata!
Submitted by: Jennie Levine Knies, February 8, 2013 The Born-Digital Working Group has already undergone a radical change since the last blog post. Originally, the group members divided into four subgroups in order to tackle the different aspects of the born-digital workflow. We are now three. RIP Metadata subgroup. The original intent of the Metadata […]
The World’s Fair Ephemeral and Graphic Material Collection
The World’s Fair Ephemeral and Graphic Material Collection is now available at the Maryland Room, 1st floor Hornbake Library. To celebrate, we are featuring four blog posts about World’s Fair history and the collection. Read the next post Friday, February 8, 2013. Part 1 of 4 Before the internet, World’s Fairs gave people the chance […]
The Born Digital Working Group Divides and Conquers
Back in October, we introduced the MITH/UM Libraries Born Digital Working Group (BDWG) with a post about processing the Bill Bly Collection. Since then we’ve firmed up our goals (“start collecting/working with diverse born digital materials in the libraries” being a bit nebulous and… huge) and divided ourselves into sub-groups to conquer them. Goals and […]
Digital Collections Undergoing Server Maintenance, Thursday, January 31, 2013
Digital Collections at the University of Maryland will be undergoing crucial server maintenance on January 31, 2013, from 5am to 9am EST. We apologize for any inconveniences or inability to access material during this time. Thank you for your patience.
Searching UMD Libraries’ Digital Collections Using BASE
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), sponsored by the library of the University of Bielefeld in Germany, is an electronic index to more than 37 million digital objects in over 2300 repositories around the world, including over 15,000 items from UMD Libraries’ Digital Collections. BASE provides not only an alternative method of searching and browsing […]
New Mass Media guides available
The Special Collections staff have been hard at work creating new ways for you to discover our unique archival and manuscript collections. To see the latest additions to our database of archival finding aids, visit ArchivesUM. You can search for the finding aids in two ways. Use the drop down list under “Subject” to select […]
