Departmental Faculty Representatives
At the University of Maryland Libraries, our mission is to meet the academic, research, and information needs of the campus community in both traditional and innovative ways.
What are the liaisons' roles?
Departmental Faculty Representatives
The work of the departmental faculty representatives (or faculty library liaisons) is vital to the success of the University of Maryland Libraries in supporting University's goals for learning, discovery, engagement, and professional practice.
- Each academic department/program at UMD assigns a faculty member to serve as faculty library liaison for that department.
- The departmental faculty representative may be the primary contact person for his or her department with the library, communicating directly with their liaison librarian.
- departmental faculty representatives communicate to their liaison librarian changes in curriculum, academic directions, and new programmatic needs, as well as new, evolving, or diminishing research focuses.
- They encourage their colleagues to communicate with their subject librarian regarding individual information, purchase, instruction, or research needs and distribute communications from the liaison librarian and the Libraries that they receive.
- Further, they may coordinate the participation of their department in special projects, such as:
- Journal cancellation projects
- Major purchase decisions
- Major withdrawal/transfer projects of bound journal volumes or books.
- They can also be providing feedback from the faculty regarding:
- Library services
- Policies
- Procedures
- Collections
Subject Librarians
In their outreach function, subject librarians (or liaison librarians) are a conduit between academic departments and the library to make sure that we are serving the unique research and information literacy needs of students and faculty in each discipline to the best of our ability.
- Liaison librarians are assigned subjects based on their undergraduate and graduate degrees, academic interests, and the needs of the library.
- Liaison librarians provide information literacy instruction, research assistance, and manage and build collections.
- Through departmental partnerships, liaison librarians actively develop innovative services and materials that support the University's evolving academic programs and changing research interests.
- Active communication between liaison librarians and their faculty library liaison include all matters related to the University Libraries, such as:
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Who are the liaisons for my department?
Find Subject Librarians and Departmental Faculty Representatives by Academic Department:
| Department | Departmental Faculty Representative (faculty library liaison) | Subject Librarian (library liaison) |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting & Information Assurance | Dr. James McKinney, Associate Chair (jmckinne@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) / Lily Griner (griner@umd.edu) |
| Aerospace Engineering | Dr. Norman Wereley (wereley@umd.edu) | Sarah Weiss (srweiss@umd.edu) |
| African American Studies | Marshal Washington (lahsram9@umd.edu) | Tahirah Akbar-Williams (takbarwi@umd.edu) |
| Agriculture | Dr. Craig Beyrouty (beyrouty@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Agricultural & Resource Economics | Italia Peretti (iperetti@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| American Studies | Dr. Mary Sies (sies@umd.edu) | Eric Lindquist (ericl@umd.edu) |
| Animal & Avian Sciences | Dr. Lisa Taneyhill (ltaney@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Anthropology | Dr. Mark Leone (mleone@umd.edu) | Jordan Sly (jsly@umd.edu) |
| Arabic Studies | Dr. Valerie Anishchenkova (vani@umd.edu) | Emily Deinert (edeinert@umd.edu) |
| Architecture | Dr. Brian Kelly (bkelly@umd.edu) | Cindy Frank (cfrank@umd.edu) |
| Art History & Archaeology | Dr. Jordana Saggese (saggese@umd.edu) | Cindy Frank (cfrank@umd.edu) |
| Asian & East European Languages and Cultures | Dr. Michele Mason (mmmason@umd.edu) | Kana Jenkins (jenkins1@umd.edu) |
| Astronomy | Ms. Olivia Dent (odent@umd.edu) | Nevenka Zdravkovska (nevenka@umd.edu) |
| Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | Sarah Weiss (srweiss@umd.edu) | |
| Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES) | Dr. Eric Haag (ehaag@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Behavioral & Community Health | Dr. Amelia Arria (aarria@umd.edu) | Nedelina Tchangalova (nedelina@umd.edu) |
| Bioengineering | Dr. John Fisher (jpfisher@umd.edu) | Leah DiCiesare (leahd@umd.edu) |
| Biology | Dr. Scott Juntti (sjuntti@umd.edu) | Matthew Cain (mwcain@umd.edu) |
| Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics (CBMG) | Dr. Stephen Mount (smount@umd.edu) | Matthew Cain (mwcain@umd.edu) |
| Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Dr. Peter Kofinas (kofinas@umd.edu) | Leah DiCiesare (leahd@umd.edu) |
| Chemistry & Biochemistry | Dr. Andrei Vedernikov (avederni@umd.edu) | Leah DiCiesare (leahd@umd.edu) |
| Cinema & Media Studies | Dr. Eric Zakim (zakim@umd.edu) | Chuck Howell (chuckh@umd.edu) |
| Civil & Environmental Engineering | Dr. Chuck Schwartz (schwartz@umd.edu) | Sarah Weiss (srweiss@umd.edu) |
| Classics | Dr. Lillian Doherty (ldoherty@umd.edu) | Eric Lindquist (ericl@umd.edu) |
| Communication | Prof. Brooke Fisher Liu (bfliu@umd.edu) | Chuck Howell (chuckh@umd.edu) |
| Computer Science | Dr. David Mount (mount@umd.edu) | Sarah Weiss (srweiss@umd.edu) |
| Counseling & Higher Education | Dr. William Ming Liu (willmliu@umd.edu) | Tahirah Akbar-Williams (takbarwi@umd.edu) |
| Criminology & Criminal Justice | Dr. Rod K. Brunson (rbrunson@umd.edu) | Celina McDonald (cnichol5@umd.edu) |
| Decision & Information Technologies | Dr. John Bono, Associate Department Chair (jbono@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) / Lily Griner (griner@umd.edu) |
| Economics | Dr. Andrew Sweeting, Chair (atsweet@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) / Lily Griner (griner@umd.edu) |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | Dr. Julius Goldhar (jgoldhar@umd.edu) | Sarah Weiss (srweiss@umd.edu) |
| English | Dr. Martha Nell Smith (mnsmith@umd.edu) | Emily Deinert (edeinert@umd.edu) |
| Entomology | Dr. Sara Via (svia@umd.edu) | Matthew Cain (mwcain@umd.edu) |
| Environmental Science & Policy | Dr. Mark Carroll (mcarroll@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Environmental Science & Technology | Dr. Ray Weil (rweil@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Dr. Tianzhou Charles Ma (tma0929@umd.edu) | Nedelina Tchangalova (nedelina@umd.edu) |
| Family Science | Dr. Manouchehr Mokhtari (mokhtari@umd.edu) | Nedelina Tchangalova (nedelina@umd.edu) |
| Finance | Dr. Geoffrey Tate, Chair (gtate@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) / Lily Griner (griner@umd.edu) |
| Fire Protection Engineering | Dr. Arnaud Trouvé (atrouve@umd.edu) | Leah DiCiesare (leahd@umd.edu) |
| French | Dr. Valerie Orlando (vorlando@umd.edu) | Jordan Sly (jsly@umd.edu) |
| Geographical Sciences & Technology | Dr. Chris Justice, Chair (cjustice@umd.edu) | Milan Budhathoki (mb17@umd.edu) |
| Geology | Dr. Mong-Han Huang (mhhuang@umd.edu) | Matthew Cain (mwcain@umd.edu) |
| Germanic Studies | Dr. Julie Koser (jkoser@umd.edu) | Jordan Sly (jsly@umd.edu) |
| The Global Health Initiative | Dr. Colleen M. Farmer (cfarmer@umd.edu) | Nedelina Tchangalova (nedelina@umd.edu) |
| Government & Politics | Dr. Todd Allee (tallee@umd.edu) | Judy Markowitz (judym@umd.edu) |
| Health Services Administration | Dr. Michel Boudreaux (mhb@umd.edu) | Nedelina Tchangalova (nedelina@umd.edu) |
| Hearing & Speech | Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner (nratner@umd.edu) | Chuck Howell (chuckh@umd.edu) |
| Historic Preservation | Prof. Dennis Pogue (dpogue@umd.edu) | Cindy Frank (cfrank@umd.edu) |
| History | Dr. Robyn Muncy (rmuncy@umd.edu) | Eric Lindquist (ericl@umd.edu) |
| Human Development & Quantitative Methodology | Dr. Laura M. Stapleton (lstaplet@umd.edu) | Tahirah Akbar-Williams (takbarwi@umd.edu) |
| Information Studies | Dr. Paul Jaeger (pjaeger@umd.edu) | Rachel Gammons (rgammons@umd.edu) |
| Institute of Applied Agriculture | Dr. Chelsea Mays-Williams (cmayswil@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Italian | Dr. Valerie Orlando (vorlando@umd.edu) | Jordan Sly (jsly@umd.edu) |
| Jewish Studies | Dr. Berny Cooperman (cooperma@umd.edu) | Yelena Luckert (yluckert@umd.edu) |
| Journalism | Dr. Ronald A. Yaros (ryaros@umd.edu) | Chuck Howell (chuckh@umd.edu) |
| Kinesiology | Dr. Joanne C. Klossner (jklossne@umd.edu) | Nedelina Tchangalova (nedelina@umd.edu) |
| Landscape Architecture | Dr. Christopher Ellis (cdellis@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center | Dr. Isabel Alcañiz, Director and Affiliate Faculty (ialcaniz@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) |
| Linguistics | Dr. Margaret J. Antonisse (mja@umd.edu) | Emily Deinert (edeinert@umd.edu) |
| LGBTQ Studies | Dr. Ruth Zambrana (rzambran@umd.edu) & Prof. Robert Burgard (rburgard@umd.edu) | Judy Markowitz (judym@umd.edu) |
| Logistics, Business, & Public Policy | Dr. Cristian Dezső, Area Chair (cdezso@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) / Lily Griner (griner@umd.edu) |
| Management & Organization | Dr. Protiti Dastidar, Associate Chair (pdastida@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) / Lily Griner (griner@umd.edu) |
| Marketing | Dr. Mary Beth Furst, Associate Area Chair (mbfurst@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) / Lily Griner (griner@umd.edu) |
| Marine Estuarine Environmental Science (MEES) | Dr. Kennedy Paynter (paynter@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health | Dr. Amy Sapkota (ars@umd.edu) | Nedelina Tchangalova (nedelina@umd.edu) |
| Materials Science & Engineering | Dr. Lourdes G. Salamanca-Riba (riba@umd.edu) | Leah DiCiesare (leahd@umd.edu) |
| Mathematics | Dr. James A. Schafer (jas@umd.edu) | Leah DiCiesare (leahd@umd.edu) |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr. F. Patrick McCluskey (mcclupa@umd.edu) | Sarah Weiss (srweiss@umd.edu) |
| Music | Dr. Barbara Haggh-Huglo (haggh@umd.edu) & Dr. J. Lawrence Witzleben (jlwitz@umd.edu) | Steve Henry (shenry@umd.edu) |
| Nutrition & Food Science | Dr. Margaret Udahogora (mudahogo@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Persian Studies | Dr. Matthew Thomas Miller (mtmiller@umd.edu) | Emily Deinert (edeinert@umd.edu) |
| Philosophy | Dr. Jerrold Levinson (august@umd.edu) | Jordan Sly (jsly@umd.edu) |
| Physics | Ms. Anne Suplee (asuplee@umd.edu) | Nevenka Zdravkovska (nevenka@umd.edu) |
| Plant Sciences | Dr. Christopher Ellis (cdellis@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Psychology | Dr. Michael Dougherty (mdougher@umd.edu) | Emily Deinert (edeinert@umd.edu) |
| Public Health Science | Dr. Kristin Cipriani (kcips@umd.edu) | Nedelina Tchangalova (nedelina@umd.edu) |
| Public Policy | Judy Markowitz (judym@umd.edu) | |
| Real Estate Development | Ms. Maria K. Day-Marshall, Esq. (mdaymars@umd.edu) | Cindy Frank (cfrank@umd.edu) |
| Second Language Acquisition | Dr. Robert De Keyser (rdk@umd.edu) | Lindsay Inge-Carpenter (linge@umd.edu) |
| Slavic Languages | Dr. Liz Papazian (papazian@umd.edu) | Yelena Luckert (yluckert@umd.edu) |
| Sociology | Dr. Roberto Patricio Korzeniewics (korzen@umd.edu) | Patti Cossard (pcossard@umd.edu) |
| Spanish & Portuguese (Latin America) | Dr. Laura Demaría (ldemaria@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) |
| Spanish & Portuguese (Iberia) | Dr. José María Naharro-Calderón (jmn@umd.edu) | Zaida Diaz (zdiaz@umd.edu) |
| Studio Art | Prof. Brandon Morse, Chair (bmorse1@umd.edu) | Cindy Frank (cfrank@umd.edu) |
| Teaching & Learning Policy Leadership | Dr. Francine H. Hultgren (fh@umd.edu) | Tahirah Akbar-Willams (takbarwi@umd.edu) |
| Theatre, Dance, & Performance | Dr. Maura Keefe (mkeefe1@umd.edu) | Drew Barker (dbarker@umd.edu) |
| Urban Studies & Planning | Dr. Ariel Bierbaum (bierbaum@umd.edu) | Cindy Frank (cfrank@umd.edu) |
| University of Maryland Extension | Dr. Jeff Howard (jwhoward@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Veterinary Medicine | Dr. Seth Dickey (sdickey@umd.edu) | Isabella Baxter (ibaxter@umd.edu) |
| Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Dr. Neda Atanasoski (natanaso@umd.edu) & Gwen Warman (gwarman@umd.edu) | Judy Markowitz (judym@umd.edu) |