November is National Career Development Month

November is National Career Development Month and Langsdale and running with the Career & Professional Development Center's theme of Creating Career Connections. In addition to all the events offered by the Career and Professional Development Center listed here, Langsdale also has resources to offer you!

Networking for Job Search and Career Success by Michelle Tullier gives the “nuts and bolts of how, where, why, and with whom to network, and also address the psychological issues such as personality differences and importance of the right attitude.”

30 Minutes – to Improve Your Networking Skills by Hilton Catt and Patricia Scudamore is an eBook available through Langsdale. Part of a series, this installment focuses on success in business, communication in management, and social networks in business.

Check out last week’s blog post about the IBIS World database, which offers networking questions and issues to discuss for a variety of industries.

Visit us on the third floor of the Learning Commons to explore even more resources, and good luck with making your own career connections!

Baltimore Poetry Library comes to Langsdale

In the Winter of 2015, the University of Baltimore’s Klein Family School of Design became the new home of the Baltimore Poetry Library, the largest independent collection of poetry in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

In an effort to expedite campus-wide transparency, Langsdale Library recently partnered with the Baltimore Poetry Library to catalog the impressive collection consisting of thousands of volumes of poetry. 

Cataloging the collection will provide a proper accounting of what is in the collection, identify unique titles not yet available at Langsdale, and it will allow it to be searched online. The purpose of which will allow the collection to be accessible to the UB community and wider Baltimore community interested in special collections and poetry titles.

This process is currently underway, with approximately 10% of the titles cataloged. Due to the large and comprehensive nature of the collection, it is estimated that the project will be completed within a year and a half. That is a lot of poetry. The searchable WorldCat List of current titles and their contents can be found here.

Currently, a sampling of the Baltimore Poetry Library is on display in Langsdale Library. An assortment of handmade books, zines, and broadsides serve as examples of the broad definitions that “book,” and “poetry” can take. While some pieces are Xeroxed and glued together, there are also perfect bound collections from local and regionally diverse small presses.

 

Read the press release to get a better sense of what the collection includes and its broader purpose. To access the collection, contact Lyndsay Bates (LAP 107, lbates@ubalt.edu, 410.837.6038). It is located in UB’s Liberal Arts and Policy building, room 303.