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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...
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Digital Collections Undergoing Server Maintenance, Thursday, January 31, 2013
An early IBM computer with off-reel tapes at the University of Maryland campus, 1964 Digital Collections at the University of Maryland will be undergoing crucial server maintenance on January 31, 2013,...
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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...
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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...
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Revealing La Révolution: Digitized Pamphlets Accessible through WorldCat
Revealing La Révolution: Digitized Pamphlets Accessible through WorldCat. Updated information on how to search for digitized french pamphlets from UMD’s premier collection.
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I need a primary source now!
Having trouble finding primary sources? Want to research outside of Special Collections hours? Can’t visit Hornbake Library in person? No problem! This post is all about finding digitized primary...
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Katherine Anne Porter Correspondence Project: An Introduction
“She always kept things secret in such a public way.”Katherine Anne Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” (1930) Katherine Anne Porter’s description of Cornelia, daughter of the titular...
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Sounds of the Silent Majority: Digitizing the Recordings of Political Culture...
“In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.” Rhetoric like this, found scattered throughout the hundreds of speeches performed by Vice President...
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Interested in French history and language? Explore digitized items from our French Pamphlet collection online! The entire collection spans from 1620 to 1966 and contains pamphlets on a variety of...
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Digitized Early Modern Books
Until UMD Libraries are able to reopen, digital copies of books are one of the best ways to take advantage of library resources. Through modern technology you can now access some of the oldest and...
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