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UMD Libraries Finals Success Guide 2024
Finals season can be overwhelming for anyone. You’ve got a lot on your plate, and we’re here to help you succeed. We've created this guide with resources and tips from the Libraries and Learning Success at the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (TLTC), as well as, events and resources from across campus to help you get through finals. You've got this.Library Extended Hours for Finals
Celebrate Native and Indigenous Heritage Month with these books by native and indigenous authors
To help you celebrate Native and Indigenous Heritage Month this year, we’ve put together a list of 10 books by native and indigenous authors available to borrow through UMD Libraries.
Take Pride in Queer Lit with these books by LGBTQ+ authors available through UMD Libraries
Every October, the university celebrates Pride and LGBTQ+ History Month, with this year’s theme, “Queering Creation Brick by Brick.” UMD Libraries is committed to protecting and increasing representation of Queer Literature in our collections — in the 2022-2023 alone we spent $3,000+ to purchase over 170 Transgender and Bisexual Fiction and Poetry LAMBDA award winning books, and this category has been added to our automatic purchasing plan.
UMD Libraries now accepting applications for the Katherine Anne Porter Research Award
The University of Maryland Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) invites applications for the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Research Award.The award provides up to $2000 to support research in the Katherine Anne Porter papers and related holdings in SCUA. Students, faculty, and researchers from the UMD community and beyond are welcome to apply.
New “Homegrown” exhibition takes root in UMD Libraries’ Hornbake Library
A new exhibition has taken root in the Hornbake Library Gallery. “Homegrown: An Introduction to the Environmental Justice Movement” highlights how the environmental justice movement began with the rise of civil rights, labor, and environmentalism movements in the mid-twentieth century.
UMD Libraries’ Celebrates LatinX Heritage Month with 11 books by LatinX authors
To help you celebrate LatinX Heritage Month this year, we’ve put together a list of 11 books by LatinX authors available to borrow through UMD Libraries.
UMD Libraries Releases New Open Source Web Application Developed for White House Pool Reports Digital Collection
The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) was founded in 1914 to promote excellence in journalism, robust reporting on the U. S. presidency, and support democracy through a free press. The White House Press Corps is made up of journalists credentialed by WHCA. This press pool provides reporting on the President’s daily activities and events. The UMD Libraries’ WHCA Pool Reports Collection consists of email pool reports created while covering the U.S. President and Vice President dating back to June 2020.
UMD Libraries’ User Services and Resource Sharing Director Hilary Thompson awarded 2024 Distinguished Achievement in Access Services Award
Hilary Thompson, UMD Libraries’ Director of User Services and Resource Sharing, has been awarded the 2024 Distinguished Achievement in Access Services Award by the Access Services Conference. Thompson has been an integral part of UMD Libraries’ access services since she first joined the Libraries as the Access Services Librarian in 2012.
Registration now open for UMD Libraries’ Living Democracy Symposium on October 10
Registration is now open for the UMD Libraries’ Living Democracy Symposium on Thursday, October 10. A one-day interdisciplinary event examining actions that all of us can take to preserve our democracy, the symposium will take place in the Stamp Student Union from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
New student-curated exhibit in UMD Performing Arts Library focuses on 1970s Counterculture
This summer, students in the First-Year Innovation and Research Experience (FIRE) summer program led by Dr. Elizabeth Massey, the assistant clinical professor who leads FIRE’s Music and Social Identity stream, worked with Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library and Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) in Hornbake Library to research and create an exhibit titled “Voices of the Counterculture,” focused on social and cultural themes from the 1970s.