This post was written by Special Collections Student Assistant Jagruti Chinchwadkar.  

Special Collections is pleased to introduce the new Scannx Book ScanCenter to our researchers. Researchers will now be able to scan books and documents on their own and save it to their USB drive free of charge!

The Scannx Book Scanner is a drop edge (or zero edge) scanner that allows you to scan documents flat or to scan bound materials like books without damaging the spine. Please show the items you wish to scan Special Collections staff who will evaluate the condition of the material.  If it’s not too fragile, we’ll show you how to do the scanning – it’s easy!

I have had the opportunity to use the Scanner and I found it user-friendly, quick and easy to use. Its large friendly buttons guide the user through scan process from choosing file formats, to scan quality, color depth, file naming and destinations. It has ample flatbed surface and every page comes back is crisp and clear. It provides high quality scans and converts scanned images into PDF, searchable PDF, Word, TIFF, or PNG file formats automatically. We’ll show you how to scan things without damaging them and making sure they stay in their proper order, and instructions for its use can also be found next to the workstation.  Make sure to bring your own USB drive!

Don’t have time for using the scanner?  Need scans of photographs? No need to worry, we can do it for you for a fee.

Special Collections is open Monday - Wednesday 1 - 4pm, Thursday 1 - 8pm and Friday 1 - 4pm, also by appointment Monday - Friday from 9:00am - 4:30pm. Contact: speccoll@umbc.edu | 410.455.2353

Thanks Jagruti!

The Visitor Services Associate performs all functions of the Visitor Services Department in order to provide a high level of customer service to the Maryland Historical Society’s members, visitors, volunteers and staff. This position also has key responsibilities for security functions including opening and closing of the buildings; and monitoring the safety and security of MdHS facilities.

Visitor Services duties include performing the daily operation of the Information/Admissions Desk and providing excellent customer service:

Position:

Inventory Controller is responsible for inventorying the artwork for three fast paced art galleries including unpacking crates, photographing the art, creating database entries for art, and wrapping the art for transport.

Successful candidates must be detail oriented, self motivated, good with numbers, and good with photography. Carpentry skills are a plus.

If you are eager to learn, we will teach you the skills necessary to be successful! We value a winning personality over experience and will train the right person.

Responsibilities:

The Department of Music presents two enthralling concerts this week in the world-class Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall featuring guest artist Matthew Sharp, an internationally recognized classical artist. Sharp is a multidisciplinary artist and will perform as cellist, bass-baritone and actor over the course of his engagement at UMBC. Both concerts are free for UMBC students with their ID.

On Thursday, September 7, Sharp sings Schubert’s Der Erlkönig and Jacques Brel’s Chanson des Vieux Amants and will be joined by UMBC string faculty for the celestial and unsurpassed chamber work, Schubert’s Cello Quintet.

“Jacques Brel found Schubert’s C major Quintet inspirational – he listened to it when he wrote,” comments Matthew Sharp. “I’ve always felt that their music shared a raw, unguarded, ‘leap from the precipice’ quality. So, we’re including two of their iconic songs — one where terror and death rips through the veil between fantasy and reality, the other in which love is both chains and salvation — as both a context for this late masterpiece and as a prelude to the cabaret concerto on Friday, September 8, Death’s Cabaret — A Love Story.”

Death’s Cabaret — A Love Story is a concerto for the 21st century: a unique and thrilling marriage of the 19th century concerto form with the grime and sensuality of cabaret — both an innovation and a re-invention of an ancient tradition. Dangerous, intimate, raw and virtuosic, it promises to be an unforgettable night!

Matthew Sharp is recognized as as an innovative artist working in music and across disciplines. He studied cello with Boris Pergamenschikow in Cologne, voice with Ulla Blom in Stockholm and English at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was taken to Jacqueline du Pré when he was 12, Galina Vishnewskaya when he was 18, and studied chamber music with the Amadeus Quartet. Sharp has appeared as solo performer with the RPO, LPO, RLPO, CBSO, Orchestra of Opera North, SCO, EUCO, ESO, Manchester Camerata, Orchestra of the Swan, Orchestra X, Arensky Chamber Orchestra, and Ural Philharmonic. He has recorded for Sony, EMI, Decca, Naxos, Somm, NMC, Avie and Whirlwind and has appeared in recital as both cellist and singer at Wigmore Hall, SBC and Salle Gaveau.

Thursday, September 7, 8 pm: Death, Love and Terror in Music of Schubert

Friday, September 8, 8 pm: Death’s Cabaret — A Love Story

We hope you had your fill of sunshine, mojitos and laid-back afternoons because the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship has a full semester of workshops and events booked to give you the entrepreneurial-inside-scoop from every angle possible.

Are you a technologist looking for the how-tos to breaking it in the security field? We’ve got something for you.

Are you a total maverick that’s trying to live an independent fulfilled life but need proof that it’s possible? We’ve got something for you too.

Do you already know everything but need a little guidance and inspiration? We’ve even got something for you.

We are so excited to be kicking off Fall 2017 with some very influential guests, as well as some new resources and opportunities to send your way—so stay tuned, turn on your email notifications, and keep checking in so you don’t miss out on anything.

Also, don’t forget to check out the details on this semester’s annual Idea Competition. Submissions are due by October 12^th, so we encourage you to start applying now!  

A list of our semester workshops and speaker series are listed below, as well as attached at the bottom.

WORKSHOPS

The Killer Business Plan

Neil Davis

Monday, Oct 2 - 12 - 1PM at The Commons 329

How “Not” to Hire Your First 10 Employees

Yair Flicker

Monday, Oct 9 - 12 - 1PM at The Commons 329

Getting Beyond Better: The Entrepreneur’s Role in Saving Society

Scott Townsley

Wednesday, Nov 15 - 12 - 1PM at The Commons 318

SPEAKER SERIES

Experiences and Lessons Learned Building Software Companies

Ron and Cyndi Gula

Wednesday, Sep 27 - 12 - 1PM UC 310

The Business (and Reality) of Starting Up

Brad Smith

Monday, Oct 16 - 12 - 1PM UC 310

Entrepreneurs Panel

Monday, Nov 20 - 12 - 1PM UC 310

IDEA COMPETITION

Application Deadline: October 12^th at 1 pm

Competition Date: November 16^th in The Commons SportZone from 7pm to 9pm

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