Nancy Perlman
Archivist/Head Special Collections
Telephone: 410-617-6868
E-Mail: nlperlman@loyola.edu
or nperlman@ndm.edu
Margaret [Peggy] Feild
Special Collections Librarian
Telephone: 410-617-6827
E-Mail: mfeild@loyola.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 and Special Collections Department. Here
are located the archives of Loyola University Maryland and
the Notre Dame of Maryland University, the manuscript and
special book collections and a general collection of rare
and antiquarian books.
Archives and Special Collections supports the needs, projects,
and goals of the two institutional communities. And
for students in particular 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and excitement of delving into the historical documents while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 Notre Dame of Maryland University,
the first four-year Catholic women’s college in the
country. For those with an interest in legal matters,
the archives of both institutions contain in depth files
of landmark court cases - to which both were parties - that
sought to challenge the validity of their institutional non-sectarianism
in determining their eligibility for government funding.
The strong focus on the teaching of mathematics and the
sciences and on theatre in both institutions 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 many other materials of note– all are accessible
for research, general interest and enjoyment for both institutional
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 Marian 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. New
additions to Special Collections are the correspondence of
Flannery O’Connor and Evelyn Waugh which document the
connections of the writers with the Notre Dame of Maryland University
of Maryland and Loyola University Maryland respectively.
At the end of the Spring 2008 semester, Notre Dame
of Maryland University intern, Katherine O’Brien ‘09
completed an annotated bibliography of research sources in Archives
and Special Collections relating to the history of theatre
at both Loyola and Notre Dame, as well as Baltimore and Maryland. This
is the first in a series of subject based annotated
bibliographies planned by the department. To access
the theatre bibliography please click on the following link:
Sources for the Study of Theatre in Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Notre Dame Library
We look forward to your visiting Archives and Special Collections
in the very near future.
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