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With the UMD Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Award, projects you’re already working on in your classes could earn you $1000. Apply closes at noon on Thursday, March 13, 2025.

UMD Libraries is a Congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. Find legislative hearings, Congressional reports, federal regulations, census records, statistical reports, court decisions, agency publications, posters, pamphlets, and more.

Anyone in the UMD community can propose library materials to enhance our collection’s inclusivity. The InclusiveLit Initiative aims to involve the library community in upgrading our collection by enhancing accessibility to resources about diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and equity.

Join readers from across the Libraries as they share excerpts from books that center Black voices, experiences, and imagination.

Celebrate International Love Data Week with data-centered events from UMD Libraries.

This grant supports research in the Libraries' Gordon W. Prange Collection and the East Asian Studies resources on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath.

Earn up to $2000 for research and creative projects that utilize the Katherine Anne Porter papers and related collections in Special Collections and University Archives.

Finals season can be overwhelming for anyone. We’ve compiled this guide with services and resources from the Libraries and campus to help you finish the semester strong.

In the face of rising book bans that disproportionately target LGBTQIA+ literature, we are committed to protecting  and increasing the representation of Queer literature in our collections to ensure a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and voices are reflected. 

This librarian-crafted toolkit on information literacy that can help UMD Teaching Faculty, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants across disciplines incorporate information literacy into their classes.

Need help with your final projects or exams? Is finals stress starting to kick in? Stop by our mini finals fair for help from our expert librarians, stress-relief coloring or just a quick snack break.

Our Top Textbooks collection has expanded to the STEM Library. Instead of spending money on expensive texts, borrow popular textbooks for up to four hours in McKeldin Library and the STEM Library.

Join the Libraries for a one-day, interdisciplinary symposium examining the importance of civic engagement, activism, intellectual and academic freedom, and journalism in protecting our democratic way of life.

There are mysterious happenings in McKeldin Library. Students have reported odd noises, doors slamming, and books falling off shelves. Rumors of a haunting in McKeldin Library abound. Shellock Holmes needs your help to solve this mystery before it’s too late.

Visit the Rising Up exhibition in person at the Hornbake Library gallery through the end of Summer 2024 or online anytime to explore 100 years of student activism for justice and civil rights at the University of Maryland.
 

The Diamondback photos collection contains digitized copies of over 18,000 photos taken for The Diamondback student newspaper, documenting campus life from the 1960s to the current day.

As a part of the Universities Studying Slavery consortium, The 1856 Project investigates and documents UMD's historical connections to slavery and aims to build an inclusive university community by enhancing the collective understanding of the Black experience at UMD.

UMD Discover searches almost all of the library’s collections and beyond in one simple search. Find books and e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more from our local collections and University System of Maryland collections.

The Libraries joins the College of Arts and Humanities as partners to advance the Douglass Center’s mission to engage diverse communities around issues of social justice and equity and cultivate leaders with values rooted in the humanities.
 

Through UMD Libraries, students, faculty, and staff have free access to a digital subscription to the New York Times, including news from NYTimes.com, The New York Times in Higher Education site, and Cooking and Games.