Humanities and Social Sciences Librarians

Table of Contents

• Current Database Trials
• Mission
• Members
• Services
• Projects and Activities

We are currently evaluating the following databases for possible purchase. Please direct any feedback to the contact person listed below each title.

• North American Women's Letters and Diaries (includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters). Available until June 23, 2012. For off campus access, please use the following login information: Username: reviewer Password: 278categorical
  Contact: Yelena Luckert

• Springfield Republican, 1844-1946 (newspaper from Springfield, Massachusetts). Available until June 8, 2012. For off campus access, please use the following login information: Username/Password: ra-1511
  Contact: Patricia Herron

• MarketResearch.com (provides in-depth market research reports on a broad range of industries and demographics) Available until June 1, 2012.
  Contact: Zaida Diaz

• Érudit (North-American dissemination platform of scholarly and cultural journals in French language) Available until June 30, 2012.
  Contact: Kelsey Corlett-Rivera

• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012). Available until June, 2012.
  Contact: Patricia Herron

• Black Women Writers (celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora, offering fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents). Available until June 8, 2012.
  Contact: Patricia Herron

• Caribbean Literature (searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries). Available until June 8, 2012.
  Contact: Patricia Herron

• Latin American Women Writers (extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America). Available until June 8, 2012.
  Contact: Patricia Herron

The Humanities and Social Sciences Librarians contribute to the research, teaching, and learning activities of the College of Arts and Humanities, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Robert H. Smith School of Business, College of Education, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, College of Information Studies, and School of Public Policy, through reference services, library instruction, and collection management.

The Humanities and Social Sciences Librarians are located on the 4th and 5th floors of McKeldin Library.

• Otis Chadley
  Email: ochadley@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-405-9282.
  Librarian for the departments of African-American Studies , Anthropology, Sociology, and Geography.
• Kelsey Corlett-Rivera
  E-mail: kcr1@umd.edu; telephone: 301-405-9116.
  Graduate Assistant for the department of French and Italian and Germanic Studies.
• Zaida Diaz
  Email: zdiaz@umd.edu; Telephone: 305-405-9156.
  Librarian for the Robert H. Smith School of Business, the College of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Economics.
• Lily Griner
  Email: griner@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-405-9278.
  Librarian for the Robert H. Smith School of Business, the College of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Economics.

• Timothy Hackman
  E-mail: thackman@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-405-8521.
  Librarian for the departments of English Language and Literature , Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese Language, and Second Language Acquisition.
• Patricia Herron
  E-mail: herron@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-405-9280.
  Librarian for English Language and Literature, Spanish and Portuguese, Film Studies, Latino/a Studies, and the Latin American Studies Center.
• Eric Lindquist
  E-mail: ericl@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-314-7266.
  Librarian for the departments of American Studies, Classics, History, Germanic Studies, and the Asian American Studies Program.
• Yelena Luckert
  E-mail: yluckert@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-405-9365.
  Librarian for the departments of Asian & East European Languages and Cultures (Slavic and Hebrew components), History, Women's Studies, and for the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and the Joseph and Alma Gildenhorne Institute for Israel Studies.
• Judy Markowitz
  Email: judym@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-314-1316.
  Librarian for the Department of Government and Politics, the School of Public Policy , and Law. Interim contact for Government Documents.
• Alan Mattlage
  E-mail: mattlage@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-314-1320.
  Librarian for the departments of Communication, Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Philosophy.
• Glenn Moreton
  Email: moreton@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-405-9290.
  Librarian for the departments of Psychology, Family Science, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies Program.
• Karen Patterson
  Email: kpatter@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-405-2067.
  Librarian for the College of Information Studies and the College of Education
• Margaret Saponaro
  Email: msaponar@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-314-1499.
  Librarian for the College of Journalism and the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences.

Services Offered

HSSL members are engaged in the following core services:

• Reference and Research Services
  Members contribute to the work of Information and Research Services through in-person and virtual reference, along with other activites.
  

• Research Consultation
  Faculty, students and staff can make appointments with librarians for research consultation. Consultation is provided for dissertation, thesis, and general graduate and undergraduate research. Contact your subject-specialist librarian to make an appointment. Please consult the Directory of Subject Specialists for additional areas of expertise.

• Collection Management
  Members select print and electronic scholarly information to support the teaching and research missions of the University of Maryland. To access our electronic resources, please begin your search through Research Port. You can also review a list of new electronic resources.

• Library Instruction
  Members provide customized library instruction for undergraduate and graduate coursework. Instruction is also provided for specialized faculty and graduate student seminars. Resource guides that instruction librarians have created for particular courses are available, as are subject-specific guides.

The Humanities and Social Sciences Librarians, located on the 4th and 5th floors of McKeldin Library, have made a commitment to the Green Office Program administered by the University of Maryland's Office of Sustainability. To attain bronze-level status, we have identified things we already do, such as recycling, turning off overhead lights, and packing waste-free lunches. Also, many of us use public transportation, bike, or carpool to get to work. We also selected some new activities to improve our office's sustainability plan, like saving paper through double-sided printing, bundling plastic grocery bags for recycling, tracking our commuter carbon footprint to share with colleagues, and unplugging seldom used devices that are "power vampires."

We will update our site as we check more items off the list. Be sure to stop by the University of Maryland's Sustainability website for more recommendations and to learn more about the Green Office program!

HSSL members work to maintain our relationship with the Library of Congress, promoting the use of their resources to campus departments, graduate students, and other user groups on campus, which includes organizing Library of Congress orientations for graduate students from the College of Arts and Humanities.

Currently, two MLS candidates from the iSchool are carrying out field studies with HSSL. Thus far, a resource guide for the tenth anniversary of 9/11 has been created, and several more are planned with topics relating to the First Year Book and Native American Studies. The students are also shadowing Librarians while at the reference desk, observing instruction classes, and taking part in chat reference training to further their experiences. HSSL is looking forward to sponsoring more field studies in the future.

In collaboration with the Libraries' Director of Communications, HSSL members selected and captioned banned books for inclusion in an exhibit commemorating Banned Books Week.

In September 2011 Lily Griner became co-coordinator (with Bob Kackley) of the Libraries' support of the Gemstone Program. She will become the sole Gemstone coordinator for the Libraries in December 2011 due to Bob's retirement. Several other HSSL members serve as Team Librarians through Gemstone.

HSSL reached out to the Office of Undergraduate Studies and identified several ways the Libraries could participate in the FY Book Program such as a public reading or an event. Those possiblities are currently being explored, and a resource guide is being developed as part of an iSchool student field study. HSSL also participated in the installation of a Henrietta Lacks exhibit at McKeldin.

Several members of HSSL are providing reference hours on location at their departments, such as Journalism, Public Policy, and Business.

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