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Special Collections

Special Collections Hours

Fall & Spring Terms
Monday - Friday 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday
extended hours
4 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Intersession, Summer Term and other hours by appointment

Contact:

Phone: (410)-455-2353
Email: speccoll@umbc.edu

The Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery University of Maryland, Baltimore County includes those materials that due to rarity, condition, form, or source are best handled separately from the General Collection. The collections of rare books, photographs, artifacts, manuscripts and archives housed in this department are available for research use by faculty, students and visiting scholars. All materials are non-circulating and the stacks are closed. Access to materials is provided by the online Library Catalog (catalogusmai), several online databases and a variety of print and online finding aids. A knowledgeable staff is available to assist researchers and to retrieve materials for study. Copying services are available when it will not harm the material and is permitted by federal copyright law. Eating, drinking and the use of pens are all prohibited in the reading room. Users of materials must register daily upon entering Special Collections.

Using Special Collections
Please read before visiting

Special Exhibits
Information on exhibits of Special Collections materials in the Rotunda and elsewhere.

Special Collections

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Photography, Slides & Digital Images

Books, Serials & Newspapers

UMBC Archives & Records

Regional Archives, Personal Papers & Literary Manuscripts

Center for Biological Sciences Archives

Popular Culture: Amateur and Alternative Press, Comics, Pulp Fiction

Theses & Dissertations

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