The third and fourth floors of the AOK Library are Quiet areas.  These are good places to study if you don’t mind the occasional whisper or vibrating phone.

The fifth and sixth floors of the AOK Library are designated Absolute Quiet areas at all times.  If you need an environment free from talking, cell phones, or any other noise sources, these are the floors for you!  Library staff walk through the area periodically to enforce quiet rules, but you can also report violations to the Security Desk at 410-455-2331 or Circulation Department staff at 410-455-2354.

• a UMBC student (undergrad or grad)?
• able to meet with our researchers for 1 hour in the next 2 weeks?

• printing at the Library, Commons, and computer labs
• food at True Grits or the Commons
• vending machines on campus
• anything at the UMBC Bookstore
  

Edit: Sorry, all spots have been taken!  Thanks for your interest!

Please join Albin O. Kuhn Library  Gallery this week in celebrating National Library Week. This year’s theme is Libraries Transform and the UMBC community and Library staff are asking “What does transformation look like at our library?” In light of the ongoing international refugee crises as well as the larger immigration conversation here in the U.S., the Library has chosen to showcase authors and other creators in our collections from some of the countries impacted by the 2017 travel ban. Be sure to stop by the new display in the Reference area of the first floor.

The capstone event of UMBC’s participation in National Library Week is a Humanities Forum lecture given by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. Thursday evening’s event, titled “A Conversation About Digital Access,” will begin at 5:30 pm in the Linehan Concert Hall in the Performing Arts & Humanities Building. This event is free and open to the public.

As scholars within the University System of Maryland, and part of the community served by PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP, you have been immersed in environments that carry a vision for social responsibility. Have you thought about how to engage globally? Let’s consider ways that you can share your research internationally, and how to address global challenges.

Dr. Darryl Williams. Photo Credit: 08/07/2014 – Medford/Somerville, Mass. – The BLAST and BEST banquet on August 7, 2014. (Alonso Nichols/Tufts University)

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, Dr. Darryl Williams, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Tufts School of Engineering will come to UMBC to have a conversation with undergraduate and graduate students about sharing research on a global level. His discussion, “Giving your research a global platform” will include conversations about his experiences with sharing research in Panama, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, and other countries. Dr. Williams is Research Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University, and he explores the effects of nanostructured materials on biological systems. Dr. Williams also serves as the Director for Tufts’ Center for STEM Diversity, and the current President of the national Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND) for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Prior to coming to Tufts, Dr. Williams was a program officer at the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Williams received the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, and the B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Hampton University.

Dr. Williams’ page at Tufts: https://engineering.tufts.edu/people/faculty/darryl-williams
Tufts Center for STEM Diversity: http://stemdiversity.tufts.edu/

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

2:00 – 3:00 PM

The Fireside Lounge (next to the Skylight Room), 3rd Floor, The Commons, UMBC

Registration is free. Please RSVP:

If you are a student at UMBC, please RSVP here, on MyUMBC: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/49455

If you will be visiting from an institution of organization other than UMBC, please post your RSVP in the comments, by including your name, and school/organization.

Light refreshments will be served.

This conversation is co-sponsored by:

PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program (Meyerhoff is part of the NSF LSAMP program for the USM)

The Grand Challenges Scholars Program at UMBC

• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post

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• help you develop effective search strategies
• help you select and search library catalogs and databases
• answer questions about the library's resources.