Library Opening at Noon Sat. 4/28

Due to the road closures for the 50 Shades 5K Race taking place on campus, the Library will open at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 28th, rather than 11:00 a.m. The Library will remain open until its regular Saturday closing time of 6:00 p.m.

We apologize for any inconvenience. The Circulation Desk can be reached at 301-687-5395 and the Reference Desk at 301-687-4424. 24/7 online chat reference service is also available through the AskUsNow box on the Library's website.

Choose Civility Today (and Everyday)!

The Lewis J. Ort library is proud to join the campus in celebrating Civility in Action on this Day of Civility (April 12, 2018).

We have created an online guide to resources related to civility, as well as a library display, which can be found on the third (main) floor of the Library. The online guide can be found here: http://libguides.frostburg.edu/civility.

A limited number of "I choose civility" stickers and window decals are available at this display. Please help yourself while supplies last!

Find out more about events taking place on campus at this link. Also please visit the Facebook event page to learn about other events across Allegany County!

Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The library has several displays honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Please stop by the library to view these displays and to add to our whiteboard on the ways you have honored the legacy of Dr. King.

You can see that some students have already added the ways they are honoring Dr. King.

Tell us: How are you honoring the legacy of Dr. King?

Rickie Arnold's First Flight - Display

To celebrate Rickie Arnold's upcoming mission, A collage of items from his first flight on 15 March 2009 is available for viewing on the easel just inside Special Collections (Library 4th Floor).  Included are: a small Maryland flag, the patch worn by the astronauts, and various photos from the Mission (including the astronauts).  In the top left corner is the certificate of authenticity that these items were in space.

At the top of the easel is the Frostburg State University ball cap that Mission Astronaut Richard Arnold II took into space.  We have a signed certificate stating that the cap was worn by Arnold.  There is also a banner reading, "Frostburg State University is proud of Astronaut Richard Arnold, II" and signed by Arnold with his year of graduation.

Posted by LAH on behalf of MaryJo Price, Special Collections Librarian.

March Book Madness - Champion Crowned

Congratulations to Ort Library's 

March Book Madness Champion 2018

The voting for the Champion has ended. In the end it came down to a contest between:  Sherlock Holmes vs Murder on the Orient Express. 

This year we had over 3600 individual votes during the tournament. 

In the end only one book can be crowned:     

March Book Madness Champion for 2018 

The winner of this year's Championship is: 

Sherlock Holmes 

by 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

You can view the results for the Championship "Game" on the guide created for the March Book Madness: http://libguides.frostburg.edu/march-Madness18

Public Notice: MD Dept of Housing & Community Development, Annual Plan

The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development has announced a series of public hearings to develop its new draft Annual Plan update of the State's Consolidated Plan.

In Western Maryland, the meeting is scheduled for Friday, April 13.

Friday, April 13, 2018 at 1:30 p.m.

Allegany County Office Complex

701 Kelly Road

Potomac Room 230

Cumberland, MD 21502

Please see the original notice here: MD DHCD Public Notice, Annual Plan


The Lewis J Ort library is a depository for Maryland State Documents as well as a selective depository in the Federal Depository Library Program.  As a Maryland depository, we receive public notices such as the one featured above.  These notices are posted to a designated bulletin board on the  2nd floor of the Ort Library, but will also be posted regularly to the Ort Library Blog.  If  you would also like to be added to an e-mail distribution list in order to receive information about future public notices, please contact Lisa Hartman, Government Documents Coordinator at lahartman@frostburg.edu or (301) 687-4734.