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April 24, 2019
Sharing Resources and Improving Access
A University Libraries team won the President's Commission on Disability Issues Unit Service Award for its work to improve services for users with visual impairments, most notably by providing PDFs (in a wide range of languages) of articles or book chapters that are searchable and machine-readable. 

Resource Sharing & Reserves awardees (from left): James Spring, Douvonté Farmer, James Weber, Hilary Thompson, Jenny Cotton, Margaret Jeffers-Dailey, Austin Smith (Not pictured: Taylor Vaughan).
Showcasing Research on Diversity and Inclusion

As part of the ongoing series highlighting faculty research related to a single hot topic, this final Interdisciplinary Dialogue of the semester focuses on issues related to diversity and inclusion.

Featured:  
  Quynh Nguyen                              School of Public Health 
  Ebony Terrell Shockley                College of Education     
 Sacoby Wilson                               Maryalnd Institute for                Applied Enviornmental            Health

 

Starting the Conversation
A worldwide movement for social change, the Human Library is designed to build a positive framework for conversations that can challenge stereotypes and prejudices for dialogue.

Volunteers serve as human "books" to be checked out for 20-minute conversations.The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at The Clarice will host the event on Maryland Day, April 27. 




 
Upcoming Events   
JOURNAL COMICS WORKSHOP
Learn to draw a brief comic about your day or week
Wednesday, April 24
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
McKeldin Library 2111


Creating journal comics can be a meditative, low-pressure creative practice. Open to  UMD students. Sponsored jointly by the University Libraries and Studio A. 
CODE OCEAN WORKSHOP
Demo and Training Workshop
Friday, April 26
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
ESJ 2309


Register for the trial pilot, then join us for a workshop on the cloud-based platform that allows you to share, discover and run code.
MARYLAND DAY
 A day of learning, fun and discovery
Saturday, April 27
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
 

Maryland Day features hundreds of free events throughout campus. In addition to the Human Library, we'll be hosting events in Hornbake Library (see above), McKeldin Library and in a tent on the Mall. 
 
INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE
Diversity Research Showcase
Wednesday, May 8
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
McKeldin Library 6137

Three faculty members will present research related to diversity and inclusion. Presented and sponsored by the Diversity Advisory Committee and the Research Commons.
Events   Spring 2019             
 Workshops   Common Quandaries |  GIS and Spatial Data Center  
 
Did you know?  We deliver searchable PDFs of articles written in a Latin script, of course. But we also accommodate requests to deliver searchable files in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian and other Cyrillic languages. (Yet another reason Interlibrary Loan is so popular.)
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