Celebrate National Library Week at UMBC Win prizes! It's our favorite time of year - National Library Week! In addition to promoting all of the great services and resources available in the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, we'll also be asking why YOU love the Library.

Your friendly campus librarians will be at two events offering you a chance to win pens, travel mugs, and a $100 gift card! Visit us at:

  1. Commuter breakfast, Tuesday April 12 from 8:30-10:30 in the Commons Main Street
  2. Library Atrium, Wednesday April 13 from 12-2pm with the Baltimore County Public Library


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In collaboration with their fall 2015 English seminar, Brittney Kramer, Elizabeth Chen, and Alexa Abee created a digital exhibition that examines the lives of mill girls in the nineteenth-century. This exhibition was created by using works published by and about the women in Amercan newspapers and magazines. To find out more about their research methods and about the lives of the Mill Girls, check out Kramer, Chen, and Abee's digital exhibition at URCAD 2016!

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Tomas Loayza will be presenting a short film of 1:26 minutes created by using cutout paper animation. The film is based on the self-portrait The Cliff, a piece depicting a creature made of rock who struggles to follow his father up a cliff. Come check out his presentation at URCAD 2016!

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Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day Pin. University Archives, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD) 

Every spring, UMBC undergraduates have the opportunity to present their research, scholarship, and work at Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). URCAD is an annual celebration of UMBC undergraduates' research and creativity that first began in 1997. Projects over the years have spanned from artistic exhibits and dance performances to academic presentations. This April 27 marks the twentieth annual URCAD.  

Learn More: 
-History of UMBC Research Guide 
-University Archives Webpage 
-Advertisement in The Retriever Weekly (Volume 31, Number 24) for First URCAD 
-UMBC URCAD Webpage 

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Your task will be to take pictures of presenters and audience at URCAD venues around campus. Photographers must have use of a digital camera. (Room assignments will be based on the photographer’s schedule.)

Simply complete the form HERE and you will be contacted via email to confirm your role by April 15. Share this opportunity with your fellows who might be interested in this opportunity.
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Naureen Khan explains how high school students can master the basics of comprehending the principles and powers of the United States government in order to become a responsible and informed adult. Learn more about the instruction examples such as scenario exit tickets, debates, jeopardy games, and more at URCAD 2016!

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Jason Hughes will be presenting his project regarding bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and how they can be used for technological applications at this year's URCAD. Learn more about how they were developed and and his findings during his presentation!

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Currently, they have the following paid positions: 
  • Marketing & Research Intern (paid)
  • Digital Communications Intern (paid)
  • MD Oyster Restoration Intern
  • Human Resources Recruitment Intern
  • MD Legal Interns (paid)

To learn more & to apply, please visit: http://www.cbf.org/about-cbf/jobs-internships/internships/maryland-internships.
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The next book sale of the semester has been scheduled!  Come join us on:

Library book sales are located in the back of the Reference room. For more information contact Lidia or Kathy at 410 455-2341 or illcm@umbc.edu

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UMBC Special Collections: The National Child Labor Committee Lantern Slides


A new digital collection, National Child Labor Committee lantern slides, brings online the images that were used by the NCLC in slide shows that they disseminated to bring awareness to the plight of child laborers.  This collection, composed of over 240 glass lantern slides, are part of UMBC's Special Collections and complement the world renown Lewis Hine collection, which is also made available online.

“That childhood is endowed with certain inherent and inalienable rights, among which are freedom from toil for daily bread; the right to play and to dream; the right to the normal sleep of the night season; the right to an education, that we may have equality of opportunity for developing all that there is in us of mind and heart.”
 -- A. J. McKelway, Southern Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee (1913)

The International Labour Organisation defines child labor as “any work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development”. In the United States, children have been forced to work in mines and industrial factories, where their health and safety were jeopardized. While it may seem unthinkable to us now, the expanding economy of the 19th and 20th centuries demanded cheap labor. It wasn’t until the early 1900s that things began to change. 


The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) was established in 1904 with the intent to promote the well-being of children and young adults in the workforce. The NCLC opposed the employment of underage workers in dangerous jobs with unhealthy conditions, particularly in mines and factories or completing manual labor, which often led to health concerns such as tuberculosis and broken bones. Children became unhealthy or poor adults, because the cycle of work and sleep left little or no time for education or play. 



In order to bring their concerns to the public’s attention, the NCLC made extensive use of photography. They hired photographers to document child labor, including the working conditions and the children themselves. Exhibitions of these photographs circulated around the United States, dragging the seedy underworld of child labor into the spotlight.


One of the photographers hired by the NCLC was Lewis Hine, a self-styled social photographer who traveled around the country documenting working children.  He used his craft to expose detrimental social conditions and to spur change. These photographs, and those of other NCLC photographers, also brought about new ideas concerning childhood, including the belief that it is something to be cherished and that play should be encouraged. A collection of NCLC photographs printed on glass lantern slides, can be viewed at UMBC’s Special Collections, including many by Lewis Hine.


With the aid of these photographs, the NCLC was able to sway public opinion on child labor. Children under the age of sixteen were prohibited from working dangerous jobs, and children under fourteen we prohibited from working at all. Work permits providing proof of age became mandatory. By the 1930s, child labor finally began to disappear altogether with the invention of machines that could replace small hands in the workplace.


Special Collections is open to anyone with a photo ID, M-W 1-4, Th 1-8, and F 1-4.  Appointments available Monday - Friday from 9:00am - 4:30pm. Contact: 410.455.2353 | speccoll@umbc.edu 
Intercession, Summer Term, and Winter Term open by appointment only.

This post was written by Rebecca Borland, who as an intern in Special Collections in spring 2015 scanned the glass lantern slides, created preliminary metadata, and produced contextual and promotional information for the collection.  Thanks, Becca!

Works Cited
"Child Labour." United Nations. United Nations. Web. 16 Apr. 2015. <http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/briefingpapers/childlabour/&gt;.
Curtis, Verna Posever, and Stanley Mallach. Photography and Reform: Lewis Hine & the National Child Labor Committee. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1984. Print.
McKelway, Alexander. "Declaration of Dependence." Declaration of Dependence. Web. 14 Apr. 2015. <http://www.appstate.edu/~hindmanhd/declare.htm&gt;.
"The National Child Labor Committee." National Child Labor. National Child Labor Committee. Web. 16 Apr. 2015. <http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/&gt;.
"What Is Child Labour." International Labour Organization. International Labour Organization. Web. 14 Apr. 2015. <http://www.ilo.org/ipec/facts/lang--en/index.htm&gt;.



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