Discard discussion with Lynn Cazabon
Wednesday October 6th in the Library Gallery during Free Hour (12-1pm)
Lynn Cazabon will present her series of photographs, Discard. Discard is an ongoing body of work consisting of several discrete series of images featuring movie films discarded by public institutions (libraries, schools, archives). Harking back to the 19th century practice of postmortem photography, each print serves as a memento mori to the recently obsolete medium of film. In its totality, Discard is a shadow archive, reflecting that which has been omitted from institutional archives. More generally, the series reflects on the ongoing cycle of obsolescence, wherein technologies replace one another at ever increasing speed. With each iteration of this cycle, a particular way of seeing/knowing the world is lost. You can view photographs from the Discard series at lynncazabon.com
"Using Images for Original Research" panel
NEW! You can now register for "Using Images for Original Research" (required)
Presenters:
Tom Beck, Chief Curator, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery at UMBC
Joanne Archer and Doug McElrath, Special Collections at University of Maryland, College Park
Barbara Orbach Natanson, Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress
Researchers in the humanities, arts, and social sciences often request historical images for use as an accompanying illustration in publications, presentations, and online exhibits, but despite the wealth of content contained in a single image, few use them as an independent historical resource. Archivists and curators from UMBC, College Park, and the Library of Congress will discuss the importance of visual literacy, image-based research methods, and the scholarly potential held in photographs, illustrations, and postcards.
This panel is being held in conjunction with American Archives Month and the fall meeting of the Maryland History and Culture Collaborative. Faculty, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates are encouraged to attend. Registration for UMBC attendees is required; please see additional information on the event webpage.
Special Collections Archivist Lindsey Loeper contacted some of her best archives supporters on campus and asked them to write short essays about how archives have influenced them, either professionally, academically, or personally. The essays will be posted throughout the month of October on the Library blog, or you can read all of the essays on the In the Archives webpage. Essayists include:
Michael Bowler, Library volunteer
Richard Byrne, UMBC Magazine
Christopher Corbett, English
David Hoffman, Office of Student Life
Jenny O'Grady, Institutional Advancement
Ed Orser, American Studies
Jody Shipka, English
October Reference book display
A book display is available on the first floor of the Library featuring archives related publications. Topics include archival theory, public history, non-fiction texts heavily influenced by archival materials, and books exploring the use of archives in professional and personal situations. The full list of books available is listed below, but please stop by and browse the selections in person! Each book is available to be checked out - just take the book to the Circulation desk and they will check it out for you.
Maryland History and Culture Collaborative
UMBC will host the fall meeting of the Maryland History and Culture Collaborative, an informal meeting of archivists, curators, and librarians that work professionally with collections documenting the history and culture of Maryland.
Other resources
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)
Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress
Reference Display - Archives Month 2010
- Archives power: memory, accountability, and social justice by Randall C. Jimerson
- Baltimore: a not too serious history by Letitia Stockett
- The Baltimore book: new views of local history edited by Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes, Linda Zeidman
- Baltimore County: celebrating a legacy 1659-2009 by Barry A. Lanman
- Baltimore County panorama by Neal A. Brooks and Richard Parsons
- Baltimore's past: a directory of historical sources by the Baltimore History Network
- Catonsville, 1880 to 1940: from village to suburb by Edward Orser and Joseph Arnold
- Combat correspondents: the Baltimore Sun in World War II by Joseph R.L. Sterne
- Documenting Localities: a practical model for American archivists and manuscript curators by Richard J. Cox
- Dust: the archive and cultural history by Carolyn Steedman
- Eye of the storm: photographs by Mildred Grossman: from the photography collections by Steven I. Jackson, Tom Beck, and Cynthia Wayne
- First records of Baltimore town and Jones' town 1729-1797
- Galactic pot-healer by Philip K. Dick
- George M. Bretz, photographer in the mines by Tom Beck
- The Gwynns Falls: Baltimore Greenway to the Chesapeake Bay by W. Edward Orser
- Highlandtown by Gary Helton
- The island of lost maps: a true story of cartographic crime by Miles Harvey
- Ocean City by Nan DeVincent-Hayes and John E. Jacob
- Romances of the archive in contemporary British fiction by Suzanne Keen
Recommended texts from other USMAI libraries:
- Recovering Ruth: a biographer's tale by Robert L. Root
- Archive stories : facts, fictions, and the writing of history edited by Antoinette Burton
- Remembering Ahanagran : storytelling in a family's past by Richard White
- Currents of archival thinking edited by Terry Eastwood and Heather MacNeil
- Billy the Kid: a short and violent life by Robert M. Utley
- Archives and the public interest: selected essays by Ernst Posner, edited by Ken Munden
- Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory: essays from the Sawyer Seminar edited by Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg
- The telephone gambit: chasing Alexander Graham Bell's secret by Seth Shulman
