Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:16 AM

2009 has been a very active year for the University of Maryland Archives.
Of particular interest to the Maryland History and Culture Collaborative is
the completion of the review of all 36 years of the published installments
of the Maryland History and Culture bibliography to ensure that all entries
were represented online.  All missing entries have now been input, so we are
now completely up-to-date through 2008.  The 2009 bibliography will be input
in summer 2010 as soon as this installment appears in print, if the Maryland
Historical Magazine continues to be produced.  Currently there are a total
of 14,700 entries in the bibliography, a very impressive number indeed.

Also tops on our list of accomplishments is the publication of three books,
the University of Maryland Football Vault, Musical Ambassadors of Maryland:
A Centennial Celebration, and Songs of Maryland: A Centennial Edition.
University Archivist Anne Turkos co-authored the latter two, which
commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the University of
Maryland band program.  Anne and Acting Assistant University Archivist Jason
Speck worked closely with author John McNamara on the football vault, which
includes hundreds of images drawn from the Archives' collections.  Anne will
have copies of all three publications at the collaborative meeting.

 There is also a new book in the works.  Jason will be starting work on a
pictorial history of the university for Arcadia Publishing, for their
College and University History series, similar to the books previously
produced by the University of Baltimore and Towson University.  Publication
is targeted for Homecoming in fall 2010.

 The University Archives has also been busy on the exhibit front.  Two of
their recent exhibits, "Musical Milestone," celebrating the UM Bands'
centennial, and the exhibit that honored the Class of 1959 at this year's
Homecoming, are now available on Flickr.  Our current photo caption contest
images are also on Flickr.  The contest, called "What in the World???,"  is
being run through the Archives' new blog at:
http://www.lib.umd.edu/blogs/univarch_exhibits/
Please enter early and often.  The contest runs through the end of the
semester, and a new image is posted each week.

 The Archives has also started its own Facebook page for posting recent news
and activities, with more than 110 fans (please find us and become one!).

 In addition, the Archives is collaborating with other UM staff on three
preservation and access projects.  UM Development staff  is assisting the
Archives with raising funds to preserve Maryland's historical football
films, and the first batch of films will be sent out for duplication and
restoration later this fall.  The Archives has also been working with UM
Libraries' Manager of Digital Collections, Jennie Levine Knies, to digitize
key UM publications.  Thus far, all UM yearbooks, commencement programs, and
student handbooks have been digitized and are linked from the UM Archives
website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/univarchives.  The Archives is working to
finish off the course catalogs, which will also be linked from their site;
thus far catalogs from 1859 (the first one) through 1945 are available.
Lastly, the Archives has been working with the Memorial Chapel as part of a
project to research the names of fallen veteran alumni listed in the Chapel's
Memorial Book, helping students conducting the primary source research that
will eventually become the backbone for an addition to the Chapel's website.

 Finally the UM Archives are pleased to be participating in the University
of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Archivists Community of
Interest (COI), organized earlier this year through the efforts of MHCC
members Lindsey Loeper (UMBC) and Kat Ryner (St. Mary's College).  The next
meeting of the COI will be held in College Park on January 12, 2010.  We are
very excited that this group is finally off the ground, and we look forward
to future interactions with our colleagues throughout the UM System.

Anne S. K. Turkos
University Archivist
2208E Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742
Phone: 301.405.9060
Fax: 301.314.2709

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