🎉 #MarylandDay is Saturday, April 27 🎉 Don't forget to stop by Hornbake Library and pick up a button at the Rare Book Petting Zoo!

Maryland Day is Saturday April 27! 🎉 Stop by Hornbake Library to explore our exhibits & learn about our collections: ✅“Rising Up: 100 Years of Student Activism For Justice & Civil Rights at the University of Maryland” Exhibition 10am-2pm ☑️Filipino-American Archives 10am-3pm

On Monday, May 6, at 12:30pm, join us for a ZOOM talk on Jazz in Occupied Japan by Stella Li (Ph.D candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill), a recipient of the 20th Century Japan Research Award 2023! The award is co-sponsored by UMD Libraries and The Miller Center. The talk is open to public!

#MarylandDay is just around the corner! On this Saturday, April 27, come by to UMD SpecColl to make #origami hearts❤️💛💚💜💙 #UMDSpecialcollections UMD Libraries

Want to see something really im-PRESS-ive? Visit Hornbake Library on #MarylandDay for the open house for a new acquisition in #UMDSpecialCollections: a 19th century iron printing press! ❤️🤍💛🖤 We won't be ready to print just yet, so explore the workspace & #rarebook exhibit!

Are you visiting #UMD on Saturday to celebrate #MarylandDay? Stop by Hornbake Library & tour #UMDspecialcollections: ☑️Digitization Lab Tours 10am-1pm ✅Katherine Anne Porter Room Tours 1:30pm-4pm ☑️Maryland Room Open House 10am-4pm ✅Printing Press Room Open House 11am-3pm

The rare book petting zoo gang's all here! We are excited to see everyone in Hornbake Library for #MarylandDay tomorrow! #UMDspecialcollections #marylandday2024

🐢 The study spaces in Hornbake Library lobbies will be open 24/7 throughout finals week. Our doors are open if you need a quiet place to study. 🐢 #umdlibraries #hornbakelibrary #finalsweek #umd

Hey Terps!🐢Finals season is full of stress, so take some time to decompress!🐢 ❤🤍 Stop by Hornbake Library to grab coloring pages, crayons, and a turtle fidget toy. Don't forget to take care of yourself!🖤💛 #umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #FinalsWeek #iglibraries

There's a new exhibit on display in the Maryland Room in Hornbake Library! Environmental Inspiration: Artists Books and the Natural World features artists' books from #UMDspecialcollections related to nature, climate change, and the environment. 🌎

Exhibit installation happening in Hornbake Library North! “Homegrown: An Introduction to the Environmental Justice Movement” opens September 9th. Preview exhibit at exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/homegrown 📷: Baltimore News American collection, UMD Special Collections and University Archives.

【Prange Collection Blog】NEW EXHIBITION Opening at the Special Collections Gallery in UMD SpecColl ; Prange Materials on Display through 2024-25 Academic Year prangecollection.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/new…

We got to help out with a SUPER cool exhibit over in Art-Soc & the opening reception is TOMORROW NIGHT!! As part of Next Now Fest, we'll be celebrating the passion (& rage) that art can evoke & looking back at a 1993 public art exhibit that still echoes across campus today.

Big thanks to Dr. Michele Mason (of School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) for bringing her class, "JAPN335: Troubling Gender and Sex in Japan," to UMD SpecColl yesterday. Enjoyed showcasing our Kabuki, Takarazuka, and several censored materials to the class! #UMDSpecialcollections UMD Libraries

Thank you Dr. Alicia Volk (of UMDArtHistory) for bringing the students to UMD SpecColl! They had sneak peek of Onchi Koshiro related items which they will curate an exhibition later this semester. Stay tuned! #UMDSpecialcollections #PrangeCollectionExhibit UMD Libraries

2nd visit of Dr. Volk (of UMDArtHistory) included viewing the atomic bomb related materials and diving into Onchi Koshiro items in our 'mockup' reading room at our lobby! #UMDSpecialcollections #PrangeCollectionExhibit UMD Libraries UMD SpecColl

Best part of hosting a class on #Halloween - we had a minion, deer, fox and Sadako from the Ring examining the materials! Thank you Dr. Mason (of School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) for such a fun visit. #UMDSpecialcollections UMD Archives UMD SpecColl

On Monday, April 14, we will be hosting a guest talk by Dr. Akinobu Matsumoto. In-person event and open to the public. prangecollection.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/a-g…

Join us tomorrow at 1:00 pm on Zoom for this workshop led by Jeannette Schollaert, Outreach and Engagement Librarian UMD SpecColl!