Nancy Perlman
Archivist/Head Special Collections
Telephone: 410-617-6868
E-Mail: nlperlman@loyola.edu
or nperlman@ndm.edu
Mailing Address: 200 Winston Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21212
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
(preferably by appointment)
After Hours: By Appointment Only
 Welcome
to the Archives/Special Collections Department, the newest
unit in the Loyola Notre Dame Library! Here are located the
archives of both colleges, the manuscript and special book
collections and a general collection of rare and antiquarian
books.
Archives/Special Collections supports the needs, projects,
and goals of the college communities. And for students there
are opportunities here to hone primary research skills and
experience the challenges and excitement of delving into the
historical documents while making history themselves.
The materials are interesting and relevant. For example,
there are substantial holdings which document the history
of higher education - from the Jesuit prospective on the Loyola
campus and that of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, founders
of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, the first four-year
Catholic women’s college in the country. For those with
an interest in legal matters, the archives of both colleges
contain in depth files of landmark court cases - to which
both colleges were parties - that sought to challenge the
validity of their institutional non-sectarianism for the purposes
of eligibility for government funding.
The strong focus on the teaching of mathematics and the sciences
and on theatre in both colleges from the beginning is also
well documented, in text and imagery. Text and images relating
to athletics, special events and commencements, and the student
publications, among so much other material of note–
all are accessible for research, general interest and enjoyment
by members of both college communities. Visiting scholars
and researchers are assisted here as well.
 Rare
and antiquarian books with their gold stamped leather bindings,
various type faces, wood cuts, etchings and other graphics
and the Henry and Marion Knott Fore-Edge Painting Collection
(the second largest in the country) provide unique opportunities
for the study of the art of the book. Our ongoing collection
of faculty publications and the Loyola student/faculty publishing
collaborative, Apprentice House, are also among our treasures.
At the end of the Spring 2008 semester, College of Notre
Dame of Maryland intern, Katherine O’Brien (Class of
2009) completed an annotated bibliography of research sources
in the Archives/Special Collections Department relating to
the history of theatre in both colleges, and in Baltimore
and Maryland. This is the first in a series of annotated bibliographies
which our department plans to produce on an ongoing basis.
To access the theatre bibliography please click on the following
link:
Sources for
the Study of Theatre in Archives/Special Collections, Loyola
Notre Dame Library
We look forward to your visiting the Archives/Special Collections
Department in the very near future.
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