Hornbake Library

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Your source for the latest news, events, and conversation at Hornbake Library, University of Maryland.

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Hornbake Library is the home of Library Media Services, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Special Collections and University Archives, and the Gordon W. Prange Collection. The library also offers ideal quiet study space for individuals and groups. This Facebook page will share news, events, conversations, and valuable resources from the unique collections in Hornbake Library, North!

Lower Floor:

Library Media Services (http://www.lib.umd.edu/lms/)
Since 1973, Library Media Services have housed the most current technologies for audio and visual materials and a wide collection of resources in multiple formats.

MITH (http://mith.umd.edu/)
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a leading digital humanities center that pursues disciplinary innovation and institutional transformation through applied research, public programming, and educational opportunities.

First Floor:

Special Collections and University Archives (http://www.lib.umd.edu/special)
Delve deeper into history with primary sources from University Archives, State of Maryland, Labor History and Workplace Studies, Mass Media and Culture, Literature and Rare Books, National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection and more!

FREE public exhibit (http://www.lib.umd.edu/special/exhibits/home)
Currently featuring "For Liberty, Justice and Equality: Unions Making History in America"

Katherine Anne Porter room
Open on Wednesdays for tours and information, the library is accessible through the Special Collections. Please contact Special Collections (301-405-9212) for more information.

Fourth Floor:

Gordon W. Prange Collection (http://www.lib.umd.edu/prange)
The Gordon W. Prange Collection is the most comprehensive archive in the world of Japanese print publications — books, magazines, newspapers, posters, maps and ephemera — issued in Japan during the immediate post-World War II years, 1945-1949.