MARK YOUR CALENDAR
SPEAKING OF BOOKS: Conversations with Campus Authors
TERPS IN OUR BEDS? Building Meaningful (Library) Relationships in a Multi-Partnered World Monday, March 25, 2013, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
6137 McKeldin Library Dan Hazen, associate librarian of Harvard College for Collection Development. Learn how cooperative and consortial arrangements are helping research libraries meet local needs—despite overlapping commitments, uncertain business models, and fundamental questions concerning scope and adaptability.
SPEAKING OF BOOKS: Conversations with Campus Authors
PINK AND BLUE: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
McKeldin Library 6137 Jo Paoletti, Associate Professor, American Studies
EDIBLE BOOK FESTIVAL 2013
Pink
Blue and
Telling The Boys from The girls in AmericA
Jo B. Paoletti
EDIBLE BOOK FESTIVAL
Monday, April 1, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
NAKED TRUTH: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right Wednesday, April 10, 2013 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. McKeldin Library 6137 Judith Hanna, Affiliate Senior Research Scientist, Anthropology, takes readers onstage, backstage, and into the community and courts to reveal the conflicts, charges, and realities that are playing out at the intersection of erotic fantasy, religion, politics, and law.
MARYLAND DAY
Saturday, April 27, 2013, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Join the University Libraries in this campuswide celebration of all that the university has to offer. The portico of McKeldin Library, offering a stunning view of McKeldin Mall, will be open for the first time. Elsewhere, star in an old-time radio drama or try your hand at origami. To find all of the activities the University Libraries will offer, enter “libraries” in the “search for events by keyword” at www.marylandday.umd.edu.
McKeldin Library plaza View edible creations inspired by books and authors on this April Fools’ Day celebration observed by libraries around the world. Sponsored by the University Libraries and the iSchool.
IN BRIEF Vive la France!
Thanks to a grant from the College of Arts and Humanities that recognizes innovative projects, a faculty team will digitize rare historical French pamphlets, exposing valuable information about the French Revolution to a broad audience. Librarian Kelsey Corlett-Rivera has teamed up with Assistant Professor Sarah Benharrech and Professor Valerie K. Orlando of the Department of French and Italian to oversee the effort to digitize 300 French pamphlets published in the late 18th century. The pamphlets are part of the special collections of the University Libraries.
UMD to train Digital Residents
The University of Maryland has been selected by the Library of Congress to serve as an elite training ground in a new residency program for professionals who work with digital collections. The University Libraries and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) will partner to offer the nine-month residency which begins in September 2013. UMD is one of 10 regional host sites—and the only university—in the first year of this National Digital Stewardship Residency program.
A Series of Events with DR. VALERII PAVLOVICH
LEONOV Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library
LEC TURE
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIA AND THE COLD WAR
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 12 noon – 2:00 p.m.
Conservators rescue historic diploma The diploma awarded to the first Korean student to receive a degree from any American college or university has returned to Maryland, now at home in the University Archives. Pyon Su received the diploma from Maryland Agricultural College in 1891; his great-great-great nephew gave it to the university in 2012. Printed on parchment and tightly rolled, the diploma suffered from multiple creases. In order to digitally scan the document, it first had to be flattened. Collections conservator Bryan Draper began this treatment by reintroducing low levels of moisture to the document, first in a humidity chamber which allowed him to slowly unroll the stiff document. To remove the creases, the diploma was humidified again between laminate material and damp blotting paper. Modified bulldog clips attached to the diploma’s edges maintained proper tension as the parchment dried.
“Like a Taco” The greatest threats to parchment are high humidity and mold, says Draper. Keep your own diploma in as stable an environment as possible, matted and framed with archival-quality materials. Don’t dry-mount it, and if it gets wet and wrinkles, contact a conservator. Draper once conserved a water-soaked diploma which someone had attempted to dry by ironing it. “It was horribly shrunken,” he says. “It looked like a taco.”
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McKeldin Library 7121 Sponsored by the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies, Department of History. Light lunch will be served. K EYNOTE PRESENTATION
RUSSIAN LIBRARIES, RESEARCH AND SCHOLARS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. McKeldin Library 6137
FILM VIE W ING AND DISCUSSION
FIRE OF 1988 AT THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES LIBRARY
Thursday, April 4 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
McKeldin Library 7121 The film documents the devastating 1988 fire at the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences.