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2 Student Spotlight

3 International Piano Archives at Maryland Turns 50

6 Digitizing the Diamondback

7 Winning the War of Ideas

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Reimagining the LibraryThe Legacy of Dean Patricia A. Steele

ILLUMINATIONKNOWLEDGE for the 2Ist CENTURY at the UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND LIBRARIES Summer 2015

ALWAYS ONE to think outside the box, Dean Patricia Steele envisioned a bold new direction for the University Libraries. Propelled by her big ideas, unmatched energy, and unflagging dedication to students, she has realized that vision. Moreover, by establishing meaning-ful partnerships, she has positioned the University Libraries for future growth and success—and has won countless admirers on campus and far beyond.

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Dean Steele enlisted anthropology and architecture students in a major re-envisioning of McKeldin Library, encouraging them to reimagine what a library might be.

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Dear Friends,

As the clock ticks away and my time at the University of Maryland Librar-ies comes to a close, I cannot help feeling a mix of sadness in leaving this wonderful place, but also a nostalgia for my home of many decades in Bloomington, Indiana. This time at Maryland has been the highlight of my career and it has been a career delightfully var-ied. I have had the opportunity to work in almost every kind of library – academic, public, school and spe-cial. And, I had the distinct honor of serving as dean in two wonderful places – Indiana University and the University of Maryland. The Maryland experience was the highlight for so many reasons. We have a University in its ascen-dancy, redefining the academic experience in the 21st century while creating a model college town. We have wonderful library staff engaged in change that took us farther in these few years than anyone predicted. Our students are extraordinary – bright, ambi-tious, confident, and programmed to “do good.” Finally, there are friends such as you, who joined us as agents of change. With your donations and your moral support, we began to see ourselves differently and to present a new vision of the aca-demic library. I have never met a more engaged and welcoming group. Thank you. Please stay with us as we continue to soar. You are essential!

Sincerely,

Patricia A. Steele Dean of the Libraries

Editor’s note: Dean Steele retired on June 30, 2015.

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AUDREY LENGEL is busy these days. While earning her MLS with a specialization in Information and Diverse Populations at the iSchool, she’s making an impact at UMD Li-braries. Audrey works as the graduate assistant for the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM) and the Collection Development departments, as well as a digitization assistant in the Digital Conversion

and Media Reformatting depart-ment. An internship at D.C. Public Libraries’ Special Collections also allows her to pursue her interest in outreach. “ Libraries provide services that empower people to access, navigate, and understand the flood of information before them,” she says. With her array of skills and experi-ence, Audrey will be a reliable guide.

— Eric Cartier, Digital Librarian

S T U D E N T S P O T L I G H T

ON MAY 1, the day many countries of the world celebrate International Workers Day, or Labor Day, local vol-unteers interested in promoting labor history gathered to edit the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Part celebration and part workshop, Edit-a-Thons are organized around a single topic as a means to build awareness and community.  Labor-related collections at the University of Maryland, including the AFL-CIO Archives, provided context and content. As part of a nationwide effort, other libraries with significant labor collections hosted similar edit-ing workshops.  Participants also viewed the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive, a prestigious archive recently added to Special Collections in Labor History & Workplace studies at the University of Maryland Libraries. —Jen Eidson, Labor Collections Archivist

Labor history collections inform local Wikipedia editors

American Federation of Labor (AFL) founder Samuel Gompers.

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CALENDAR YEAR 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM). Housed within the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, IPAM’s col-lections comprise the world’s most extensive concentration of piano recordings, books, scores, programs and related materials, including the archival papers of many great key-board artists. The University of Maryland Li-braries, in collaboration with UMD’s School of Music and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, will celebrate IPAM’s first fifty years and look for-ward to the next fifty during the 2015-2016 academic year. Audiences, students, and artists will engage with the archives in ways that demonstrate IPAM’s continuing efforts to docu-ment and inform the evolution of pianistic performance tradition.

A new exhibition in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library gallery, Archiving Historic Pianism: Internation-al Piano Archives at Maryland Beyond 50, displays unique and rare materials from IPAM’s extensive archives.

A four-part recital series featuring visiting pianists launches in October with Marc-André Hamelin. It cul-minates with Margaret Leng Tan’s forward-looking exploration of novel uses of the conventional piano as well as the musical potential of toy pianos.

Digitization projects will make col-lections available to a wider audience by offering them online. Among them: the William Kapell Collection of correspondence, diaries, programs, and photographs of the brilliant American pianist whose life was tragically cut short in a plane crash in 1953.

“Perspectives on Pianism,” a course in the School of Music to be taught by IPAM Curator Donald Manildi in spring 2016, will give students a chance to work with the archive’s rich collection of primary sources.

For more information please visit theclarice.umd.edu or follow IPAM on Facebook at facebook.com/ipamUMD

Celebrating Fifty Years of the International Piano Archives at Marylandby Steve Henry, Head, Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library

Please join us for the

IPAM RECITAL SERIES

Marc-André HamelinOctober 4, 2015

Orion WeissDecember 2015

Ursula OppensFebruary 2016

Margaret Leng TanApril 2016

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TEACHING AND LEARNINGRenovated spaces to support changing models of learning. The most visible of these are located in McKeldin Library, where the turnstile count has increased 21 percent since 2010:

l Terrapin Learning Commons

l John & Stella Graves MakerSpace

l Instruction classrooms, Special Events Room, study lounges and portico

Undertook ethnographic and architectural studies to redesign McK-eldin Library and to provide inspira-tion to create environments that sup-port the ways students and faculty now work.

Established Undergraduate Library research award; pro vided targeted research and instruction assistance to support programs such as Gemstone, Honors and FIRE.

RESEARCHReallocated collections budget to better reflect the diversity of resourc-es students and faculty now expect. More than 75 percent is earmarked for electronic resources.

Created capacity and infrastruc-ture to sustain ongoing digitiza- tion efforts to make special collections broadly available.

Below, top: Google Glass and 3D printing are among the technologies available for campuswide use in the John & Stella Graves Makerspace. Bottom: High-density shelving in the Severn Library will free up library space.

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Introduced services such as video streaming and multimedia production to support new models of teaching. Expanded technological infrastructure that supports more than 600 computer workstations throughout libraries (now with com-mon software) and launched a popu-lar equipment loan program.

Strengthened partnerships and provided space and expertise to campus units such as the Teaching and Learning Transfor- mation Center; Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship; and the Division of Infor- mation Technology.

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THE UNIVERSITY of Mary-land has appointed Dr. Babak Hamidzadeh as Interim Dean of Libraries. In this role, Dr. Hamidzadeh will work to ad-vance the UMD Libraries’ repu-tation on the regional, national and international stage. “His more than 20 years of experience and exceptional track record here at UMD make him the perfect candidate for this role,” says Mary Ann Rankin, UMD’s senior vice pres-ident and provost. “I am certain that he will be an outstanding interim dean.”  Since 2011, Dr. Hamidza-deh has served as Associate Dean for Digital Systems and Stewardship at the UMD Li-braries. He is also an affiliate associate professor with the Department of Computer Sci-ence and with the University of Maryland Institute for Ad-vanced Computer Studies. Prior to joining UMD, Dr. Hamidzadeh served as Director of the Repository Development Center at the Library of Congress where for nearly seven years he led a team and a data center that developed and deployed large-scale digital archives and libraries. He has also served in a senior management position with The Boeing Company, and held several faculty positions at the University of British Columbia and University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong.

Dr. Babak Hamidzadeh appointed Interim Dean

Established expertise in emerg-ing areas such as data management, statistics and GIS. As a result, launched IT programs and infrastructure to support faculty in areas such as research data man-agement, digital scholarship, and publishing.

Leveraged the purchasing power of the CIC to acquire new e-resources, including many related to the STEM disciplines worth nearly $2 million if purchased independently. Imple-mented the CIC-based interlibrary loan service, providing quick ac-cess to more than 110 million print volumes.

Acquired the historical archive of the AFL-CIO, the largest such gift

to the university, which established Maryland as a center for labor history.

Took a leadership role in national initiatives such as HathiTrust shared digital repository and Academic Pres-ervation Trust to leverage the col-lective resources of other academic research libraries.

Championed broad and free ac-cess to information by growing the university’s digital repository, provid-ing expertise in digital publishing, incentivizing faculty to publish their research in open-access journals, and working with University Senate to heighten awareness.

View a brief farewell video: go.umd.edu/farewell

Below, top: Architecture students present a new vision of McKeldin Library. Bottom: Undergraduate researchers receive awards for exemplary use of library materials.

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INSIDE THE VAULT

Helping history come aliveSuccessful fundraising campaign jumpstarts efforts to make historical issues of the student newspaper available onlineBy Anne Turkos, University Archivist

WE DID IT! We set a new, all-time fund raising record for Launch UMD, the university’s crowd-funding plat-form that supports projects that advance innovation, teaching, and learning at UMD. This spring, the UMD Libraries collaborated with staff from the College of Journalism and several undergraduate students to form Team DigiDBK and raise almost $33,000 to digitize and make accessible all issues of The Diamondback, UMD’s primary student newspaper, from 1910 to the present. Team DigiDBK had 30 days to raise their original goal of $10,000, which the UMD Friends of the Librar-ies promised to match, dollar for dollar. They met this initial target within the first 10 days, and raised an additional $10,550 by project’s end. The $30,550 total set a new fundrais-ing record for Launch UMD, and Team DigiDBK is very grateful to the 226 donors who chose to support this ini-tiative. With additional contributions that arrived after Launch ended and a recent grant award of $2,000 from the Anacostia Trails Heritage Association, the team has accumulated nearly 50 percent of the funds needed to com-plete the digitization portion of the project.

Work on creating the digital files and creating online access to the pa-per will begin in summer 2015, as the team continues to raise funds to help make UMD history alive through the pages of The Diamondback. For more information about this project or to make a donation to this effort, con-tact University Archivist Anne Turkos: 301-405-9060 or aturkos@umd.edu

The Diamondback provides a vivid glimpse of student life in bygone eras, chronicling cultural changes on campus and in the larger world.

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Winning the War of IdeasBy Doug McElrath, Acting Head, Special Collections and University Archives

THIS YEAR’S REMEMBRANCE of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II has emphasized the dwindling number of veterans whom we rightly honor for their sacrifices preserving freedom. However, we sometimes forget how the United States and its allies won the other front in the war, the battle for hearts and minds. The holdings of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) in the University of Maryland Libraries are a rich source for better understanding how Americans were mobilized to support the war effort. In many ways, World War II was the first war to be fought both on the battlefield and over the air waves. Nazi Germany, in particular, created an effective propaganda machine aimed at both domestic and foreign targets. Broadcasters in the United States responded with their own mass appeals to patriotism and sac-rifice. A good example are materials in SCUA from Vox Pop, a popular radio show that aired during the war years. Its creator, Parks Johnson, used a traveling format with interviews of ordinary Americans, hence its name meaning “voice of the people.” Broad-cast from military bases, factories and communities across the country, the scripts from Vox Pop featured home front themes such as “Lumber at War”

and “Dogs for Defense.” Complement-ing these materials are the papers of important figures in broadcasting, including Helen Sioussat who over-saw public affairs programming on CBS between 1937 and 1958. Compelling images were key to shaping information during wartime, and SCUA features several rich pho-tographic collections from the World War II era. These include the photo archives of the Baltimore News Amer-ican, a daily newspaper. In addition, women’s role on the home front are well represented through the papers of local chapters of the American As-sociation of University Women and the League of Women Voters. No discussion of SCUA’s World War II holdings would be complete without mentioning Gordon W. Prange. A beloved, longtime profes-sor at the University, Prange served on McArthur’s staff during the war and was responsible for the collec-tion that bears his name. The Prange Collection is the legacy of the mili-tary censorship program during the American occupation of Japan 1945-1949. It is comprehensive with a copy of nearly everything printed in Japan during the occupation. Peace came in 1945, but for some, the war of ideas continued long after the guns stopped firing.

Below: A publication from the Gordon W. Prange Collection portrays the US forces occupying Japan as friendly and helpful.

From left: Vox Pop host Parks Johnson interviews a wounded soldier at Walter Reed Army Medical Center; ad for “Meet Your Navy,” a popular weekly show hosted by Raytheon. Below: “Free Speech Mike” quotes Pres. Andrew Jackson on the importance of a free press in a democracy in this ad for a group of radio stations.

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In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Special Collections and University Archives presents an exhibition exploring Lewis Carroll’s creative genius. Beginning with early editions of his famous Alice books, the exhibition includes Carroll’s other fictional, poetic, photographic, and mathematical works. Artwork by artists and illustrators worldwide shows Alice’s timeless appeal as a beloved literary character.

October 2015–July 2016Maryland Room Gallery, Hornbake LibraryUniversity of Maryland. College Park, MD

www.lib.umd.edu/alice150

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The Legacy of Lewis Carroll: Selections from the Collection of August and Clare Imholtz

Alice 150 Years and Counting . . .