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Public Services Division
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Contact us: (Voice) 301-405-9251; (Fax) 301-405-9191Tanner Wray, Director of Public Services (301-405-9251) The Public Services Division (PSD) supports the education, research, and scholarship of the University's students, faculty, and staff. These users are central to the work of PSD. To the extent possible, PSD serves the residents of Maryland and the larger community. Because of its direct relationship to library users, PSD takes special responsibility to understand the needs of the library user and to ensure that these needs remain central to goals, mission, and operations of the Libraries. PSD supports the educational and research mission of the University by advising and directing users in the best use of information resources. PSD provides and promotes quality reference, instruction, collection building, collection management, and access services. Specifically, PSD
The Public Services Division (PSD) will create an environment within the University of Maryland Libraries and on campus that fosters teaching, research, and scholarship. As a result of our work, the Libraries will be in greater accord with the general mission of the University and will facilitate the following four critical activities. PSD will be more deeply integrated with the teaching, research, and scholarship of the University's students, faculty, and staff. We will provide enhanced library and research instruction, state of the art access to scholarly and other information resources, and we will manage and develop our collections in a manner that is in line with the current and future needs of our users. PSD will keep abreast of developments within librarianship and relevant fields. We will adopt best practices to provide the highest quality services to our users. PSD will make use of the most appropriate technologies to best serve our users and to execute library operations. We will take advantage of technological developments to maximize efficiencies and to fulfill the Libraries' and the University's strategic goals. PSD will establish new and enhance existing consortial, collaborative, and cooperative relationships with other library and University units and with libraries and institutions off campus to support the work of our users and the wider scholarly community. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
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