Humanities and Social Sciences Librarians

Mission

The Humanities and Social Sciences Librarians contribute to the goals and mission of the Libraries and, specifically, to the research, teaching, and learning activities of the following Colleges and Schools:

• College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• College of Arts and Humanities
• College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
• College of Education
• College of Information Studies
• Philip Merrill College of Journalism
• Robert H. Smith School of Business
• School of Public Health
• School of Public Policy

Subject librarians serve as liaisons to their departments and provide a full range of services, including reference assistance, research consultations, information literacy instruction, collection management, and more

Members

• Otis Chadley, ochadley@umd.edu; 301-405-9282
  Librarian for the departments of African-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, and Sociology

• Kelsey Corlett-Rivera, kcr1@umd.edu; 301-405-9116
  Librarian for the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (departments of French & Italian, Germanic Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese) and MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities)

• Zaida Diaz, zdiaz@umd.edu; 301-405-9156
  Librarian for the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Economics

• Lily Griner, griner@umd.edu; 301-405-9278
  Librarian for the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Economics

• Patricia Herron, herron@umd.edu; 301-405-9280
  Librarian for the department of English and programs in Film Studies and Latino/a Studies, and the Latin American Studies Center

• Eric Lindquist, ericl@umd.edu; 301-314-7266
  Librarian for the departments of American Studies, Classics, and History, and the Asian American Studies Program

• Yelena Luckert, yluckert@umd.edu; 301-405-9365
  Librarian for the departments of Asian & East European Languages and Cultures (Slavic and Hebrew components), History, and for the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

• Judy Markowitz, judym@umd.edu; 301-314-1316
  Librarian for the department of Government and Politics, the School of Public Policy, and Law

• Alan Mattlage, mattlage@umd.edu; 301-314-1320
  Librarian for the departments of Communication, Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Philosophy

• Glenn Moreton, moreton@umd.edu; 301-405-9290
  Librarian for the departments of Psychology and Family Science and the LGBT Studies Program

• Karen Patterson, kpatter@umd.edu; 301-405-2067
  Librarian for the College of Information Studies and the College of Education

• Pablo Sandoval, psandova@umd.edu; 301-405-9112
  Librarian for Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Law

• Maggie Saponaro, msaponar@umd.edu; 301-314-1499
  Librarian for the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and the department of Hearing and Speech Sciences

Special Projects

• First Year Book
• Future of Information Alliance: Looking Forward at Libraries and Librarianship
• Library of Congress Partnership
• Microform Collections
• Speaking of Books... Conversations with Campus Authors

Past 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, 2009
• War and the Representation of War, a series of exhibits, public readings, and a symposium for UMD's Semester on War and the Representation of War, Fall 2008
• Digital Diasporas: Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies, a workshop on electronic resources for the Digital Diasporas conference, 2008
• Working Together: Faculty and Librarians Collaborating to Transform Student Learning, a conference in Monterrey, Mexico, with our sister library, Tecnologico de Monterrey, 2008