Archives Month 2011

Exhibit installation on the 1st floor

Stop by the 1st floor of Albin O. Kuhn Library and view an exhibit from the University Archives, "In the Archives: UMBC at 45." The exhibit will highlight the many types of materials collected by the University Archives as well as the varied groups, events, and stories documented within the materials. This exhibit will be installed on October 12, the first day of Homecoming.

UMBC: An Evolution

Reprinted with permission from The Retriever Weekly, this ten part essay series documents the planning, development, and controversies of UMBC from 1955 to 1981. Originally written for UMBC's 15th anniversary in 1981, this student essay series reveals important historical facts about the establishment of our campus. It is also a great example of student research - something that has continued to be a key aspect of UMBC students' academic life.

Reference book display

UMBC history is taking over the Reference department's monthly book display! This month you can browse (and check out) faculty publications from the early years of campus (circa 1965-1970) and current faculty publications (circa 2009-2011). The full list of books available is listed below. You can also browse all of UMBC's faculty/staff publication holdings through the Library catalog; using the UMBC-only catalog search, select "UMBC Faculty/Staff Publications" from the named collections drop-down menu.

Other resources

Retriever Fever! Visit for more information on UMBC's 2011 Homecoming celebrations, October 12-15

Archives Month webpage on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference website (link updated 2016-12-13)

American Archives Month at the Society of American Archivists (link updated 2016-12-13)

Reference Display - Archives Month 2011

45 years of faculty and staff publications

Reflecting on the scholarship produced by the faculty and staff of a campus is an important step in understanding the central themes, directions, and priorities of a college or university. In 2011, our 45th fall semester, it is interesting to look back a few decades to the scholarship produced by some of our early faculty and administrators during their time at UMBC or even before. Also included here you'll find recent publications, a snapshot of the scholarly and personal writing being performed at UMBC.

You are welcome to browse the Library's complete holdings of faculty and staff publications through the Library catalog. Using the UMBC-only catalog search, select "UMBC Faculty/Staff Publications" from the named collections drop-down menu.

The early years

• Reconstruction of the text of the archetype and studies in method of composition of the anonymous De viris illustribus by Walter K. Sherwin (Ancient Studies)
• Crisis in print; desegregation and the press in Tennessee by Hugh Graham Davis (History and Policy Sciences and Dean of the Social Sciences Division)
• The American revisionists; the lessons of intervention in World War I by Warren I. Cohen (History)
• The campus scene, 1900-1970 by Calvin B.T. Lee (Chancellor)
• Local semi-dynamical systems by Nam P. Bhatia (Mathematics and Statistics)
• The industry and occupation structure of the Baltimore labor market, 1960-1975 by Charles F. Peake (Economics)
• Thermodynamics by Homer Schamp (Provost)
• The supervisory function of the elementary school principal as perceived by teachers by Richard F. Neville (Chair of the Education Division and Dean of Arts and Sciences)
• Rhetoric and literature by P. Joseph Canavan (Arts)
• The new deal in the suburbs; the Greenbelt town program, 1935-1952 by Joseph L. Arnold (History)
• Francisco de Osuna and the spirit of the letter by Laura Calvert (Spanish)
• James Cheetham: journalist and muckraker by Lawrence M. Lasher (Chair of the Humanities Division)
• Light scattering from dilute polymer solutions edited by Fred G. Gornick and D. McIntyre (Gornick: Chemistry)
• Population problems by Warren S. Thompson and David T. Lewis (Lewis: Sociology, 1st faculty member hired at UMBC)
• Light-induced lysis and carotenoid synthesis in myxococcus xanthus by Robert Burchard (Biological Sciences)
• Civil and institutional reform in New York State, 1864-1868 : a radical reconstruction at home by James Mohr (History)
• The mature students' guide to reading and composition by Delores H. Lipscomb, Judith I. Martin, Alice J. Robinson (Robinson: Theatre)
• The generalization of verbal conditioning by Anna Maria Rosenberg (Psychology)
• American physicians in the nineteenth century: from sects to science by William G. Rothstein (Sociology)
• Report of the excavation at UMBC site 18-BA-71 edited by Karen D. Vitelli (Archeology)
• Critical fields Hc?(T) and Hc?(T), in strong coupling superconductors by Ellen Davis Yorke (Mathematics and Statistics)
• Numerical solutions of boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations edited by A. K. Aziz (Mathematics and Statistics)
• Prudential morality in American fiction, 1873-1888 : a literary and cultural study of The gilded age, A modern instance, The rise of Silas Lapham and Looking backward, 2000-1887 by Mary Plimpton Kleinhans (English)

Recent publications

• Committing community : Carpatho-Rusyn studies as an emerging scholarly discipline edited by Elaine Rusinko (Russian)
• Toward a composition made whole by Jody Shipka (English)
• Illuminating childhood : portraits in fiction, film, & drama by Ellen Handler Spitz (Visual Arts)
• Critical care transport edited by Crista Lenk (Emergency Health Services)
• Empowering settings and voices for social change edited by Mark S. Aber, Kenneth I. Maton, and Edward Seidman (Maton: Psychology)
• Toward darkness, toward light : poems by Robert H. Deluty (Dean of the Graduate School)
• Objective dairy cattle lameness detection system: lameness index prediction functions using a reaction force detection system by Parimal Rajkondawar, Robert Dyer, Uri Tasch (Tasch: Mechanical Engineering)
• The poker bride: the first Chinese in the Wild West by Christopher Corbett (English)
• America's response to China: a history of Sino-American relations by Warren I. Cohen (History)
• Once the American dream: inner-ring suburbs of the metropolitan United States by Bernadette Hanlon (Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education)
• Celluloid deities: the visual culture of cinema and politics in South India by Preminda Jacob (Visual Arts)
• Cartographic encounters: indigenous peoples and the exploration of the New World by John Rennie Short (Public Policy)
• Instructional design frameworks and intercultural models by Patricia A. Young (Education)
• Mathematics of quantum computation and quantum technology edited by Goong Chen, Louis Kauffman, Samuel J. Lomonaco (Lomonaco: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering)
• Hiking, cycling, and canoeing in Maryland: a family guide by Bryan MacKay (Biological Sciences)
• E-government research: policy and management edited by Donald Norris (Public Policy)
• Tour of duty: samurai, military service in Edo, and the culture of early modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis (History)