New UMD Libraries Illumination includes digitized materials and a piece by retired University Archivist Anne Turkos go.umd.edu/psi

Improving AV digitization workflows so collection managers and/or their student assistants can adjust and enhance metadata before ingest

:::splicing blank tape to capture the first ten seconds of this cassette::: #StrangerUMD UMD Libraries #cassettetape

Happy #BannedBooksWeek, Terps! Together, let's celebrate our inherent right to explore ideas & challenge censorship go.umd.edu/p73

In this #BannedBooksWeek, let us also think of 1945-49 when ALL publication went through #censorship: Early yrs of Occupied Japan after WWII

We're excited to see Rachel Gammons & other intelligent people talk about demonstrable facts and reason contra #FakeNews nonsense UMD Libraries

#UMD's Hornbake Library exhibit showcases labor movement’s contribution to social justice in America: go.umd.edu/p62

Proud about how well the UMD Libraries #UMDLabor digital exhibit turned out ~ lib.umd.edu/unions

Nerd alert: TFW lots of WPA pics you scanned are included in a National Register of Historic Places Determination of Eligibility application

Sometimes we're asked to digitize the strangest things... #StrangerUMD UMD Libraries (Thanks for the photo HistoricMDNews!)

Plastic blue backing, a first for us, and pretty strange, 'cause this tape was wound inside out/upside down #StrangerUMD UMD Libraries

Celebrate #GivingDay by making a gift to our Launch UMD campaign to digitize the #Diamondback. All donors who contribute $1,000 today will win a shiny red 3-D printed Testudo statue!

To close out our #WeeklyConcertSeries, today's #tbt is all about #QUEEN. Freddie Mercury's leotards stole the show at their 1977 concert at #UMD! See all the entries at bit.ly/2zAwszx and help support our #DigiDBK campaign so we can bring you more fun features like this.

Responsibilities also include bringing us things to digitize 🐢 x.com/HornbakeLibrar…

#TistheSeason for #Testudo, #books, and reading room fun! Looking for some end of the semester cheer? Check out our new #booktree in the Maryland Room, crawling with #universityarchives turtles for that #goterps spirit

Hoping all the Terps traveling on the roads this winter break stay safe ~ hdl.handle.net/1903.1/7254

Still looking for a great class for spring semester? Free on Thursdays, 2 to 4:30? Check out HIST 429F, History of #UMD! Syllabus posted on testudo.umd.edu, or contact instructors Jason Speck and Anne Turkos for more info!

The MARAC Chair's recent message is a positive and uplifting one. MARAC

We’re excited to announce our new exhibit featuring items from the Spiro T. Agnew papers! Stop by the Maryland Room to explore gifts sent to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew between 1968 and 1973 Can you spy the inflatable Agnew toy? How about the ‘Can you beat Nixon’ board game?

After five years and four months, it's my (Eric Steven Cartier) last day in the office. Onwards to Baton Rouge, wishing Robin C. Pike and all at UMD Libraries well ~