Information for Faculty and Graduate Students

Course Reserves

Learn how to place hard-copy and/or electronic items on course reserve for your students.

Library Research Instruction

• Your Librarian Subject Specialist can work with you to schedule customized information literacy sessions designed to maximize student learning.
• Librarians can help you develop effective research assignments that relate to the course subject matter and incorporate student learning outcomes.
• The Libraries Information Literacy Program is coordinated by two main groups:
  • User Education Services facilitates library instruction for the University's large first-year programs, such as First-Year Writing (ENGL 101), The Student in the University (UNIV 100) and Introduction to Gemstone (GEMS 100), as well as for the Professional Writing Program (ENGL 39x).
  • Librarian subject specialists (many of whom are members of six subject teams), the curators of special collections, and other librarians with subject expertise, design and teach information literacy classes, orientations, seminars, & workshops for the University's subject-specific courses.

Course Related Web Pages

Librarian Subject Specialists may partner with you to build targeted resources pages for your courses. They also develop research guides by subject discipline.

Linking to Library Resources

The Linking Guide shows you how to link to library databases and electronic journals, even how to add a Catalog search box to your Web page.

Research & Library Skills Tutorials

Take advantage of a variety of guides designed to teach students how to conduct research and use library resources. Link them from your ELMS/Blackboard page.

Citing Sources & Learning About Academic Integrity

Use these resources to help your students understand and appreciate the value of academic honesty.

Nonprint Media Services

Nonprint Media Services can help you discover many ways to incorporate a variety of audiovisual materials into your teaching.

Special Collections

Learn what special collections are available to support your teaching.

Library of Congress / UM Libraries Partnership

Contact your Librarian Subject Specialist to see if there are appropriate collections at the Library of Congress for your students' research projects.

GIS: Geographic Information Systems

Basic and targeted workshops are offered to teach geographic information systems software, or ArcGIS.

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Librarian Subject Specialists

• Librarian Subject Specialists are your best resource for research assistance. They are available to meet with you in person, by phone or email, and produce the following resources to help with your research:
• Research Guides by Subject Discipline collect the most useful print and electronic resources for particular subject areas.
• Course-Related Web Pages are created for library instruction sessions, but can also be useful as basic guides to research in particular subject areas.

Interlibrary Loan

Our Interlibrary Loan service allows you to receive materials the Libraries do not own.

Faculty Document Delivery

Place a Faculty Document Delivery request via Interlibrary Loan to retrieve articles from the Libraries' print journals. We will scan the article and email it to you, saving you a trip to the library.

Borrowing from the UM Libraries

• Faculty and graduate students have special borrowing privileges at the libraries.
• Use My Account to check your due dates and renew materials.
• A Joint Faculty/Graduate Assistant Card allows your GA to borrow materials for you.

Borrowing Privileges at Other Libraries

• CIRLA: Chesapeake Information & Research Library Alliance
  Apply for a CIRLA card to gain in-person research and borrowing privileges at Howard University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, National Agricultural Library, Smithsonian, and University of Delaware.
• Library of Congress / UM Libraries Partnership
  Contact your Librarian Subject Specialist to see if there are appropriate collections at the Library of Congress for your research.
• OCLC Faculty Borrowing Program
  Apply for an OCLC card to gain in-person research and borrowing privileges at over 120 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries.

DRUM: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland

DRUM allows you to archive your work electronically and make it accessible via Google.

Scholarly Communication

Learn more about the crisis in scholarly communication. Includes information and resources on publishing, copyright, intellectual property, open access, and more.

GIS: Geographic Information Systems

Basic and targeted workshops are offered to teach geographic information systems software, or ArcGIS.

Theses and Dissertations

UM theses and dissertations are available in digital and hard-copy formats in the Libraries.

General Collections

• Suggest Materials for Purchase
• Electronic Books (or e-books) are available from a number of vendors, including a large collection from NetLibrary.
• Learn more about how the Libraries build the General Collections to meet your research interests and needs.

Special Collections

Learn what Special Collections are available to support your research:

• Archival & Manuscript Collections
• Digital Collections
• Government Documents
• Maps
• Media Collections
• Rare & Special Book Collections

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Library Hours

Hours vary by branch and by semester.

Borrowing from the UM Libraries

• Faculty and graduate students have special borrowing privileges at the libraries.
• Use My Account to check your due dates and renew materials.
• A Joint Faculty/Graduate Assistant Card allows your GA to borrow materials for you.

Borrowing Privileges at Other Libraries

• CIRLA: Chesapeake Information & Research Library Alliance
  Apply for a CIRLA card to gain in-person research and borrowing privileges at Howard University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, National Agricultural Library, Smithsonian, and University of Delaware.
• Library of Congress / UM Libraries Partnership
  Contact your Librarian Subject Specialist to see if there are appropriate collections at the Library of Congress for your research.
• OCLC Faculty Borrowing Program
  Apply for an OCLC card to gain in-person research and borrowing privileges at over 120 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries.

Printing and Copying in the Libraries

• Instructions for Printing in the Libraries from public computers or your laptop.
• McKeldin Copy Shop offers copying and specialized services such as scanning, faxing, binding, and printing transparencies.

Using Your Laptop in the Libraries

Get instructions for connecting your laptop to the campus network, and for printing wirelessly.

Patrons with Disabilities

Information for Patrons with Disabilities on library services, including the Adaptive Technology Lab, and access to the library buildings.

Study Carrels

Study Carrels are available to Faculty and Graduate Students on an annual basis.

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