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Welcome to the University Libraries at the University of Maryland.

Serving the state's flagship, land-grant institution, the University Libraries are your libraries. Our faculty and staff are here to help you access and advance the full range of human knowledge and explore your very own fearless ideas to address today's grand challenges.

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Strategic Goals and Initiatives

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Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility

Libraries efforts to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus climate

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News & Events

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Students sorting waste behind McKeldin Library.
The Dirty Details of McKeldin’s Trash
Library’s Waste Audit Gathers Info With Goal of Improving Sustainability
UMD Libraries, Big Ten Academic Alliance finalize contract with Springer extending access for faculty, staff, and students
The contract adds an Open Access publishing component to the existing Springer access.
Philip Cohen, Founder of SocArXiv
UMD Libraries-Supported Open Research Platform Wins Prestigious Sociology Prize
UMD Libraries hosts “Living Memory: Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives” an Indigenous Futures Lab Pop-Up exhibition in McKeldin Library
The mixed media art installation created by students in the Indigenous Feminisms class honors the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives
drawing of a trophy with the text: Library Award for Undergraduate Research
UMD Libraries announce recipients of the 2025 Library Awards for Undergraduate Research and the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Award
Open Data @ UMD Graphic
UMD Libraries launches new Research Data Resource in partnership with The Division of Information Technology and the Division of Research
The site aims to organize cross-campus resources on data allowing researchers a one-stop-shop for information, tutorials and more.
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