Social Sciences & Allied Professions Team
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Services Offered
Social Sciences and Allied Professions 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 or Electronic Journals. - Library Instruction
Team members provide customized library instruction for undergraduate and graduate classes. 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.
Team Members
Members of the Social Sciences and Allied Professions Team provide collection management, reference and research, and library instruction services to the academic departments. The Social Sciences and Allied Professions Team office is in Room 4109 of McKeldin Library.
- Otis Chadley, email: ochadley@umd.edu,
telephone: 405-9282.
Librarian for the departments of African-American Studies , Anthropology and Geography - Zaida Diaz, email: zdiaz@umd.edu,
telephone: 405-9156.
Team Leader and Librarian for the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Interim Librarian for the College of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Economics. - Lily Griner, email: griner@umd.edu,
telephone: 405-9278.
Librarian for the Robert H. Smith School of Business .
Interim Librarian for the College of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Economics. - Barbara Lay, email: blay@umd.edu,
telephone: 405-9264.
Librarian for the departments of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Sociology . - Judy Markowitz,
email: judym@umd.edu, telephone:
314-1316.
Librarian for the Department of Government and Politics, the School of Public Policy , and Law. - Glenn Moreton, email: moreton@umd.edu,
telephone: 405-9290.
Librarian for the departments of Psychology and Family Science. - Karen Patterson email: kpatter@umd.edu, telephone: 405-2067.
Librarian for the College of Information Studies and the College of Education - Margaret Saponaro, email: msaponar@umd.edu,
telephone: 314-1499.
Librarian for the College of Journalism and the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences.
Scope
Social Sciences Team members provide collection management, reference and research, and library instruction services to the following colleges on the University of Maryland campus:- College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Robert H. Smith School of Business
- College of Education
- College of Journalism
- School of Public Policy
- College of Information Studies
- School of Public Health
- College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Mission
The Social Sciences and Allied Professions 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 Colleges of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Education, Journalism, Health and Human Performance, Agricultural and Natural Resources, the School of Public Affairs, and the Robert H. Smith School of Business, through reference services, library instruction, and collection management.
