Loyola Notre Dame Library
 

Archives/Special Collections


Archivist

Contact Information and Hours:

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are opportunities here to hone primary research skills and experience the challenges and excitement of delving into the historical documents while making history themselves.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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