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Special Collections & University Archives @ UMD
@hornbakelibrary.bsky.social
🎓UMD Archives |🦀MD History |⚒️Labor & Unions |🎙️Broadcasting
|🌸Prange: Post-War Occupied Japan |📚Literature & Rare Books |
🎭Performing Arts & 🎹 IPAM @ Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library
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Your last chance to see Roosevelt Franklin is fast approaching! He will be boxed up and sent home after Thanksgiving break🥀🍂 Our Sesame Street exhibit is only here for another month as well!

#archives #libsky #libraries #terps #umd #specialcollections #sesamestreet
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This Saturday Hornbake Library hosted the APHA Chesapeake Chapter Wayzgoose!

#archives #libsky #librarian #specialcollections #letterpress #rarebooks #terps @printinghistory.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Our November Featured Item: American Printing History Association Calendars🍂

On display are calendars designed and made by members of APHA — featuring work across the country but esp from print artists in the DMV!

Join us Sat, Nov 15 for the APHA Chesapeake Chapter Wayzgoose! #libsky #archives
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our October Featured Item: the Prange Collection Horror Novels!🦇

Mystery and detective novels written by Edogawa Rampo (江戸川乱歩) and the inaugural issue of the magazine Kuroneko (The Black Cat), published in April 1947.

Stay tuned for the November featured item!
#archives #librarysky #umd #terps
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Our newest blog post about our opening reception is now live!!!
Read all about "Unboxing the New Exhibit" here on our Wordpress! #archives #libsky #books 🐢🔥🙌📚

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Unboxing the New Exhibit
by Belane Ayelework and Willow Whitaker  The Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) team has been hard at work for the past nine months to plan, create, and install our  new e…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Had a great time exploring @hornbakelibrary.bsky.social’s new exhibition. Letterpress, labor unions, archivists, and Zip disks. What more could you want! Kudos to the whole team on a great exhibit.
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Extra, extra! “Unboxing Innovation” opens TONIGHT at our opening reception! (open to the public on Monday at 10 am) Right now until 8pm, we are celebrating all of our hard work at SCUA to bring this exhibit to light. Hope to see you all there! 🐢🎉♥️🖤💛
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Oh yeah...it's all coming together📦Unboxing Innovation opens October 24th!
October 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thank you everyone who came out to see our Sesame Street Exhibit which is now officially open till the end of the semester! And thank you also to the amazing Susie Tofte for her presentation on the early work of Jim Henson 🐸 #umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd #libsky #sesamestreet
October 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Happy Jim Henson Day! Come visit us in Hornbake for woodblock prints and buttons. And also catch a glimpse of Roosevelt Franklin, the key puppet feature in our upcoming Sesame Street exhibition! 🌈🌈🌈 #letterpress #umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd #libsky #printmaking
September 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Tomorrow 9/18, from 12-5, swing by the presses at Hornbake Letterpress Studio, BookLab (Tawes Hall), and the Performing Arts Library (the Clarice) to create a broadside in celebration of Type High Day, a printer's holiday! We're testing out some ink colors in Hornbake...
September 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It’s an exciting week for letterpress on campus! Join us Wednesday in STAMP for Constitution Day buttons and broadsides and Thursday at Hornbake, Tawes Booklab, and the Clarice for Type High Day! More to come on both of these events 🐢 #libsky #umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd
September 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Post #2 of our summer audiovisual blog series! We get into the storage at Severn Library and its importance for AV materials. Check it out! 🎥 hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/t...
#umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd #libsky #LibSky #labor #activism #audiovisual #specialcollections
July 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Post #1 of our summer audiovisual blog series is on our wordpress today! Learn about the care and management of our AV materials in the Labor collection! hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com
#umdlibraries #umdspecialcollections #umd #libsky #labor #activism #audiovisual #specialcollections
July 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Vive le 14 juillet! Today SCUA commemorates Bastille Day! Read more about how our collections connect to the French Revolution, featuring items from the Lafayette Family Papers, French Pamphlet Collection, and National Trust Library Historic Postcards Collection! hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Here’s a tiny glimpse of our hugee postcard collection! Baltimore postcards celebrating the writing of the Star Spangled Banner and the long fight for American independence from tyrants and kings! 🎆
#umd #umdspecialcollections #Libsky #4thofjuly #archives #umdlibraries #specialcollections
July 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This Juneteenth we’re highlighting Frederick Douglass, the “Founding Father of the Second American Republic.” Douglass, whose statue stands outside Hornbake Library, is one of many liberatory voices we celebrate today.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will.”
June 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Our final goodbye blog post to Homegrown 😔🥀 read it here! hornbakelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/a...
May 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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My students had so much fun looking at these materials! Many thanks to Hornbake and Dr Schollaert!
Some materials pulled for a recent queer literature course! Pride month is every month for us >:) 🌈✨
May 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Some materials pulled for a recent queer literature course! Pride month is every month for us >:) 🌈✨
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Come join us at the Homegrown closing reception at 3:30! 🥀
April 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The latest post on the SCUA blog reflects on a year of Homegrown and some of the work that went into creating the exhibit. Be sure to check out Homegrown's closing reception next Tuesday, April 29 from 3:30-5!

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A Year of Homegrown: An Introduction to the Environmental Justice Movement
by Divya Vashisht and Willow Whitaker Time sure does fly by! It’s been almost a year since Homegrown: An Introduction to the Environmental Justice Movement opened to the public last September in th…
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April 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM