601 West Lombard Street
Baltimore MD 21201-1512
Reference: 410-706-7996
Circulation: 410-706-7928
The Baltimore Running Festival takes place Saturday, Oct. 17. Road closures and traffic delays throughout the city may make getting to the HSHSL more challenging than usual.
Please review the road closure map and allow extra time and patience when traveling to the library.
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The Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) aims to educate health care providers and researchers on the importance of clear communication and increase health literacy awareness. October is Health Literacy Month. “Enhancing Patient Outcomes Through Clear Health Communication” “Health Information Resources for Culturally Diverse Patients.” |
Date: Oct. 29
Time: 2–3:00 p.m
Students, join the HSHSL for snacks and a spooky trivia contest in the Weise Gallery. Test your knowledge of Halloween traditions, mummification, and horror movies.
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What does it cost to make research accessible, and how can researchers navigate those costs?
In recognition of Open Access Week 2026 and its theme, “The Cost of Knowledge,” join HSHSL to explore opportunities for making your research more openly available, including support for open access publishing fees in Wiley and Elsevier hybrid journals.
We’ll also highlight HSHSL services that can help you navigate publishing, research impact, evidence synthesis, data management, and NIH public access and data sharing requirements.
Join us Oct. 22 from 1 to 2 p.m. Register today!
This collection of innovative texts describing patients’ and practitioners’ encounters with health care through comics is located on the first floor of the HSHSL, to the right of the leisure collection.
Our Graphic Medicine Collection is growing! We recently added nine new titles, including “Kid Gloves,” “Mom’s Cancer,” “Anxietyland” and “Precious Rubbish.”
Come check out one of these graphic works, today!
As part of the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) Founders Week celebration, students, staff, and faculty are invited to visit five historical sites, including the HSHSL’s Historical Collections, on campus on Oct. 20 between 12 and 2 p.m.
Historical Collections of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HSHSL) is an archival repository for the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). The physical and digital collections document the history and accomplishments of the graduate, dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy, and social work schools at UMB. In addition, the collections in the department tell the history of the health sciences and human services in Baltimore and Maryland generally. The repository holds unique manuscript collections and selected primary source documents dating to the University’s early nineteenth century origins. Historical Collections also houses the HSHSL’s rare book collections, featuring significant works in the health sciences and social fields.
This year’s theme, UMB Celebrates America at 250, centers around UMB’s connection to American history. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with items reflecting UMB’s impact on our nation’s history. To learn more about the collections before the open house, check out the webpage or read the Historical Insights blog posts. The Collections are open to the public; if you cannot attend on Oct. 20 but are still interested in learning more about the collections or seeing the repository at another time contact Tara Wink, Historical Collections Librarian and Archivist.
The HSHSL will display the exhibit “Bodies of Knowledge” in the Weise Gallery from Oct. 20, 2026 to Jan. 8, 2027. The exhibit features the preserved specimens of 19th-century anatomist Allan Burns, and MUMAB (Mummy, University of Maryland at Baltimore), the product of a collaboration between anatomist Ronald “Ronn” Wade and Egyptologist Bob Brier, Ph.D.
HSHSL will host a reception for the exhibit on Oct. 28, 2026 at 4 p.m.
About The Burns Collection
In the early 19th-century, Allan Burns, a Scottish anatomist and educator, preserved anatomical specimens in a solution of arsenic, salt, and honey, allowing specimens to be used repeatedly for teaching purposes. Following Burns’ death in 1813, his specimens were sold to Granville Sharp Pattison, Burns’ pupil and chair of surgery at University of Maryland, Baltimore. After being part of a touring exhibit, the specimens are now returning to UMB.
About MUMAB
In 1994, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine undertook an extraordinary experiment: recreating the ancient Egyptian mummification process using methods described in historical sources. Wade and Brier mummified a body donor from Maryland using procedures practiced during the New Kingdom period. Periodically studied using CT scans and MRI, MUMAB has shown no signs of decay
The latest issue of “Connective Issues” is now available, with updates on what’s happening at HSHSL, resources to explore, training opportunities, an upcoming exhibit, and more.
Interim Dean Alexa Mayo shares an update on plans for the first floor, including new furnishings, refreshed spaces and a family study room.
Try campus-wide trials of PolicyMap, Sage Data, and Statista, three resources offering access to data, statistics and other tools for research and teaching.
Other highlights include a major IMLS National Leadership Grant that will help preserve more than two centuries of UMB history and expand access to the library’s historical collections, along with information about registering for HSHSL and SOP’s annual vaccination clinic, set for Oct. 8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Need a pair of headphones, a cable to connect your laptop, or dry-erase markers for a study session? The HSHSL has a variety of useful items available at the Information Services Desk.
Some items are self-serve, while others can be checked out from desk staff.
Pick up these items from the bins near the Information Services Desk and return them before you leave the library.
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Need something you don’t see listed? Ask at the Information Services Desk or contact us at hshsl@umaryland.edu or 410-706-7995.
The Health Sciences and Human Services Library will be closed Saturday, Sept. 5 to Monday, Sept. 7 in observance of the Labor Day holiday and weekend.
We encourage you to take advantage of our extensive online resources, which remain available 24/7 from the HSHSL website.
We wish everyone a safe and restful holiday weekend!