Humanities Team
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Current Database Trials
The Team is currently evaluating the following databases for possible purchase. Please direct any feedback to the contact person listed below each title.
We do not have any trials running at this time. Please check back periodically.
Mission
The Humanities Team's mission is to contribute to the goals and mission of the Libraries and, specifically, to the research, teaching, and learning activities of the College of Arts and Humanities, through reference services, library instruction, and collection management.
Members of the Humanities Team provide collection management, reference and research, and library instruction services to the academic departments in the College of Arts and Humanities.
The Humanities Team is located in Room 5101D of McKeldin Library.
Team Members
- 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. - Alan Mattlage
E-mail: mattlage@umd.edu; Telephone: 301-314-1320.
Librarian for the departments of Communication and Philosophy. - Kelsey Corlett-Rivera
E-mail: kcr1@umd.edu; telephone: 301-405-9116.
Graduate Assistant for the department of French and Italian and Germanic Studies.
Services Offered
Humanities Team members are engaged in the following core services:
- Reference and Research Services
Team 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 team members for research consultation. Consultation is provided for dissertation, thesis, and general graduate and undergraduate research. Contact your subject-specialist librarian to make an appointment. There are subject specialists in the Libraries who do not serve on Teams. Please consult the Directory of Subject Specialists for additional areas of expertise. - Collection Management
Team 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
Team 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.
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Team Projects and Activities
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Current Projects
- Early Modern Women Database and "Teaching and Researching Early Modern Women in the Digital World," a workshop for the Attending to Early Modern Women symposium.
- Digital Diasporas: Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies
- Microform Collections
- Working Together: Faculty and Librarians Collaborating to Transform Student Learning
Past Projects
