Hornbake Library, University of Maryland

Hornbake Library is the home of Nonprint Media Services, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Special Collections, 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!

Lower Floor:

Nonprint Media Services (http://www.lib.umd.edu/nonprint/)
Since 1973, Nonprint 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 (http://www.lib.umd.edu/special)
Delve deeper into history with primary sources from Literature and Rare Books, University Archives, State of Maryland, Labor History, National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection, Broadcasting Archives, Library of American Broadcasting, National Public Broadcasting Archives, and more!

FREE and public annual exhibit (http://www.lib.umd.edu/special/exhibits/home)
Currently featuring "How We Might Live: the Vision of William Morris"

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.