PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 26, 2009

CONTACT: Lisa Wheeler
301/314-0336
lwheeler@umd.edu

The University of Maryland Libraries proudly welcomes Linda Seguin as the new Systems Librarian for the Information Technology Division (ITD).

Seguin comes to UM Libraries from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where she worked as a catalog librarian at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery since 2000.

Seguin received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the Pennsylvania State University. She later completed her Master of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina.

At her new position as a Systems Librarian, Seguin will assist ITD in providing support for the integrated library system to the University of Maryland Libraries and the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI).

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