Showing posts with label Digital Maryland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital Maryland. Show all posts

3/20/2017

Online Sources: Baltimore and the Black Arts Movement

Cover art from a 1980 issue of Chicory magazine
From 1966 until 1983, Enoch Pratt Free Library published Chicory, a literary magazine by Baltimore residents. According to historian Mary Rizzo, Chicory began as a federally funded Great Society program run by Evelyn Levy and Thelma Bell. It sought to give a voice to residents in Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods and to develop black aesthetics in the arts locally.

Want to know more about this long-overlooked Baltimore arts magazine? View digital copies of all 126 issues in the statewide digital collection database, Digital Maryland: http://collections.digitalmaryland.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/mdcy

10/04/2015

Digital Maryland AV Conference




Digital Maryland is a collaborative, statewide digitization program located at the Baltimore Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center with the mission "to facilitate the digitization and digital exhibition of the historical and cultural documents, images, audio and video held by Maryland institutions."

The Langsdale Library and Digital Maryland recently joined forces to put on a one-day conference about preserving audiovisual materials in archives, museums, and libraries across the state. The conference was called, "Digital Maryland AV: Making the Overwhelming Possible", and included speakers from the Smithsonian, the University of Virginia, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Salisbury University. The program was made possible with funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, through the Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Library and Development Services and partnership with Digital Maryland, Maryland Library Consortium and The University of Baltimore. The conference was held in the Learning Commons' Town Hall, and was a great success with a bevy of interaction and discussion from the 70 attendees. 



Please check out tweets from the day under #DigiMDAV. If you would like copies of the presentation PowerPoint slides, please contact shagan@ubalt.edu.