PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 25, 2009
CONTACT: Kerri Pinchuk
301/314-9142
kpinchuk@umd.edu
Head of the Library at the Universities at Shady Grove
College Park, MD - The University of Maryland Libraries proudly welcomes Irene Munster as the new Associate Director/Head of the Library at the Universities at Shady Grove (USG).
Munster joins UM Libraries with experience as Chief of Library Services at the Inter-American Development Bank, Bibliographer for Latin America and Iberia and Jewish Studies Librarian at Duke University, Director of the Max von Buch Library at the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, and Assistant to the Library Director at the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires.
Munster received a degree from Universidad del Museo Social Argentino in Buenos Aires in 1979, as well as a Master of Science in library and information science from the University of Illinois in 2001.
In her new position as Associate Director, Munster will head all Shady Grove Library activities and maintain relationships with the nine campuses holding programs at the USG campus. She will also assist in the development of the Montgomery County Public Schools Professional Library, which is located at USG through a partnership with Montgomery County Public Schools.
The University of Maryland (UM) is the only nationally-ranked public university in the Baltimore/Washington area. With a total student enrollment approaching 40,000, the University is supported in its academic endeavors by the University of Maryland Libraries, comprised of eight libraries and more than three and one half million volumes.
For more information on the University of Maryland Libraries, please visit http://www.lib.umd.edu
