Social Sciences & Allied Professions Team

Table of Contents

• Services
• Members
• Scope
• Mission, Workplans, and Working Paper 5

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 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.

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 Afro-American Studies and Anthropology.

• Zaida Diaz, email: zdiaz@umd.edu, telephone: 405-9156.
  Librarian for the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

• Gerri Foudy, email: gfoudy@umd.edu, telephone: 405-9028.
  Team Leader and Librarian for the Department of Government and Politics, the School of Public Policy , and Law.

• Robert Garber, email: rgarber@umd.edu, telephone: 405-9281.
  Librarian for the College of Journalism and the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences .

• Lily Griner, email: griner@umd.edu, telephone: 405-9278.
  Librarian for the Robert H. Smith School of Business and Interim Librarian for the departments 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 .

• Glenn Moreton, email: gmoreton@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

• Kim Ricker email kmr@umd.edu, telephone: 314-1355.
  GIS/Data Librarian and Librarian for the Geography department.

• 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

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.

• The Social Sciences Team 2004 and 2003 workplans are available in HTML and the 2002 workplan may be dowloaded as an rtf document here.
• Working Paper #5: Establishing a Self-Managing Social Sciences and Allied Professions Team