601 West Lombard Street
Baltimore MD 21201-1512
Reference: 410-706-7996
Circulation: 410-706-7928
| Monday – Thursday | 6:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. |
| Friday | 6:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
| Saturday | 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
| Sunday | 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. |
Library services and access to classrooms/meeting rooms begin at 8:00 am.
Visitors and borrowing members may not enter the building after 8:00 pm
Late night hours will resume on Monday, January 13, 2020.
The Blackboard courseware management system will be unavailable starting on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019, at noon because of a major upgrade.
Blackboard will be available by Thursday Jan. 2, 2020, at 7 a.m.
To access course reserves during this time, follow this link: https://ares.hshsl.umaryland.edu/. The HS/HSL will be closed during most of the outage and staff will not be available for technical support:
| Tuesday | December 24, 2019 | 6:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday – Wednesday | Dec. 25 2019 – Jan 1, 2020 | CLOSED |
Earlier this year, students from Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Art and their art instructor, Martin Goggins, visited the Weise Gallery as one of the stops on a campus walking tour led by Brian Sturdivant, director of UMB Strategic Initiatives and Community Partnerships. At the time, the Gallery was showing Nature’s Spring Sonata, an exhibit of paintings by Maryland first lady, Yumi Hogan.
Hogan’s art inspired the students to create the collection of works in our current exhibit. The students’ artworks include both formal studies of nature, as well as abstract renderings—visions of the natural world in which observation becomes intuition.
As they were creating these works, the students were learning about the impasto process, a technique that involves applying thick layers of paint or pigment that stand out from the surface of the work. Some of the students have incorporated impasto elements in their art. Their colorful, imaginative works will be on display in the Library’s first floor Weise Gallery through January 24, 2020.
December 1, 2019 – January 1, 2020
Regular Hours
| Monday – Thursday | 6:00 am – 1:00 am* |
| Friday | 6:00 am – 8:00 pm |
| Saturday | 8:00 am – 8:00 pm |
| Sunday | 8:00 am – 10:00 pm |
Exceptions to Regular Hours
| Winter Holidays | Tuesday, Dec 24, 2019 – | |
| Wednesday, Jan 1, 2020 | Closed |
*Floors 3, 4 & 5 and library services close at 10:00 pm. From 10:00 pm – 1:00 am, floors 1 & 2 are open for those with a current UMB ID, UMMC ID, or USM campus ID.
Come by the 1st floor Innovation Space to space out and destress with a puzzle!
Congratulations Greg Poku-Dankwah! This School of Dentistry student is the winner of the #iheartumbhshsl contest. He submitted a snappy original song and dance video in homage to the Library. We can’t stop singing it!
The Library Genie will be accepting wishes from November 1 – November 30.
Now is your chance to let us know. Submit your 3 wishes to the Library Genie today! Your wishes will be anonymous, but if you’d be willing to talk more with us about your wishes you can include your name and e-mail address.
Thanks for your input and happy wishing!
Stop by the Library’s Weise Gallery on October 30 at 3 p.m. for snacks and drinks as we celebrate National Medical Librarians month. The HS/HSL has 55 staff, with 26 faculty librarians. Each member of our staff has a specialized area of expertise.
Please join us as we celebrate the many contributions of medical librarians!
For helping us celebrate National Medical Librarians Month, we are awarding a $100 Visa gift card to the most creative tweet, post, image, video, haiku, interpretive dance, skywriting, original song, comedy sketch, tattoo… showing us how much you ❤ the HS/HSL.
Finalists will be selected each Friday in October, with the winning finalist announced on Halloween.
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook and tag us #iheartumbhshsl with your amazing entry!
Mark your calendars for 4:00 pm on September 25th and join the UMB Arts Council and the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) for a reception in the Weise Gallery, on the main floor of the HS/HSL. View the art from UMB’s inaugural issue of 1807: An Art and Literary Journal. Hear some of the artists describe the inspiration for their work. Light refreshments will be served.
