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Abigail Hardy with a copper knife blade using the Artec LEO handheld scanner. Photo by Quint Gregory.

UMD Team Works with Piscataway Conoy Tribe and Smithsonian to Bring Cultural Artifacts Back to Community

August 27, 2026 | Laurie Robinson

Working with the Piscataway Conoy Tribe, a team from INFO, ARHU, and MAPP is using 3D scanning to create replicas for community teachin …

Dr. Subramaniam and the students in Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM’s) Master of Information Management (MIP) program

Supporting Library Innovation Abroad: Mega Subramaniam’s Fulbright Journey in Indonesia

August 24, 2026 | INFO Staff

Updates from Dr. Mega Subramaniam's Fulbright scholarship advancing library education

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From Evidence to Action: When Research Helps Inform Policy

August 10, 2026 | Laurie Robinson

INFO researchers are informing the regulations and legislation that shape access to technology, education, and public life

An overhead view of archival documents on a wooden table, including a black-and-white photo of Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker and Willie Pearl Mackey next to an early typed draft of Martin Luther King Jr.’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

UMD graduate student Nick Gentry found this early draft of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail" in the archives of another civil rights activist, the Rev. John Melville Burgess, at the Virginia Theological Seminary. At left is a photo of the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, cofounder with King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and his secretary, Willie Pearl Mackey, who typed at least three versions of the letter. (Photo courtesy of Virginia Theological Seminary) Photo via Maryland Today.