Beth Saunders, Curator and Department Head
Emily Hauver, Curator of Exhibitions
Susan Graham, Special Collections Librarian
Lindsey Loeper, Reference and Instruction Archivist
Robin Martin, Library Services Specialist
Laurainne Ojo-Ohikuare, Processing Archivist
Tom Beck, Emeritus Librarian
Jessica Riley, Graduate assistant
Jackie Ellis, Graduate assistant
Ben Rybczynski, Gallery assistant
Ryan Koons, Folklife Specialist
Contact
View the telephone and e-mail information for Special Collections staff
You can also send your questions and comments by:
- chat (select "Ask a Librarian" button on the right side of any webpage),
- e-mail (speccoll@umbc.edu),
- phone (410-455-2353),
- online research consultation with an archivist (schedule a consultation here).
- or in person when the Reading Room is open (view semester hours).
Hours
The Reading Room will be closed for the Fall 2020 semester. Please contact Special Collections staff using the methods outlined above.
During the Fall and Spring semesters, the Special Collections reading room is open Monday-Wednesday 12-4pm and Thursday 12-8pm. All other times, and during Intersession, Winter, and Summer semesters, researchers should make an appointment in advance. To make an appointment, submit your request using the contact information above. The current listing of Library building and department hours is available on the Hours and Location page.
News, events, workshops, and collection highlights are frequently posted to the Library's myUMBC blog.
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Special Collections gratefully accepts gifts in a variety of ways. Your generosity benefits the entire UMBC community as well as visiting researchers and helps the Library execute its mission to fulfill the information needs of a research university with a distinctive undergraduate and graduate experience and to offer the highest quality resources and services for UMBC's growing and evolving teaching, learning, research, and service environment. You can help the collection reach its full potential by making a gift online, sending a check, and by donating materials (in-kind gifts). Learn more...
Internship and volunteer opportunities
Special Collections accepts interns and volunteers year-round, as allowed by staff availability. Possible projects include:
- Exhibit assistance: help to curate, install, and promote an original exhibit, either in the Library Rotunda, Special Collections reading room, or online.
- Provide access to published material: rehouse and learn to create holdings records for the Science Fiction & Fantasy fanzine collection
- Archives processing: rehouse, arrange, and describe records and multimedia collections
- Metadata creation: Learn/practice subject analysis, use of controlled vocabularies, CONTENTdm, and PastPerfect as you create item-level descriptions for scanned photography collections
- Collection-level description: create collection-level records for archival and photography collections
- Outreach: raise awareness of collections and resources
- Digitization: prepare, scan, record technical metadata, QC, and upload collection materials to CONTENTdm
Contact Special Collections for more information.
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