Humanities Team

Table of Contents

• Mission
• Team Members
• Services
• Team Projects and Activities

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 office is 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 and Linguistics.
• Patricia Herron
  E-mail: herron@umd.edu; telephone: 301-405-9280.
  Librarian for English Language and Literature, Spanish and Portugese Language, 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, 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, and 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.
• Heleni Pedersoli
  E-mail: pedersol@umd.edu; telephone: 301-405-9116.
  Librarian for the departments of French and Italian, Germanic Studies and Spanish and Portuguese and for the Latin American Studies Center.

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Services Offered

Humanities Team members are engaged in the following core services:

• Reference and Research Services
  

• 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 a research consultation 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. For a current list of electronic resources, please go to UM Databases, Electronic Journals, or Resources by Subject.

• Library Instruction
  Team members provide customized library instruction for undergraduate and graduate coursework. Library instruction is also provided for specialized faculty and graduate student seminars. Web pages that instruction librarians have created for particular courses can be found at Library Tutorials - University Courses.

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.
• Library of Congress Partnership
• Speaking of Books... Conversations with Campus Authors

Past Projects

• Digital Diasporas: Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies
• Microform Collections
• Working Together: Faculty and Librarians Collaborating to Transform Student Learning

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