Library Overview

La Plata (LR Building)

Monday - Thursday: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Friday: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Leonardtown (Building C, Room 102)

Monday - Thursday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Leonardtown (Building A, Room 112)

Monday - Thursday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Virtual Services

• Resources available off-campus (via myCSMD) 24/7
• Email sent to library@csmd.edu will be answered by a librarian within 24 hours (Monday - Friday)

CSM Libraries provide:

• Access to academic databases (for articles, journals, and ebooks), from on and off campus

• Library catalog (borrow books or use materials your professor put on reserve)
• Interlibrary Loan services (request articles and books we don’t own)
• CSM Student ID Cards
• Research help (choosing a topic, finding journal articles, citing sources, and more)

Librarians also teach information literacy skills to help you:

• Understand different types of information sources, and appropriate contexts for different sources
• Critically analyze and evaluate information in multiple formats
• Build your research skills in order to find, evaluate, use, and create information

Faculty & Staff: please check out the library's Faculty & Staff Resources guide for more information about library instruction, library guides, and research support.

Ask a Librarian: Library@csmd.edu 

La Plata: 301-934-7676

Leonardtown: 240-725-5360

Prince Frederick: 443-550-6060
 

Mary Johnson
Library Director
mbjohnson@csmd.edu

Amy Spitz
Instruction & OER Librarian (Faculty)
aspitz@csmd.edu

Emily Cranford
Reference & Instruction Librarian (Faculty)
emcranford@csmd.edu

Circulation
circulation@csmd.edu 
301-934-7626

Interlibrary Loan 
ILL@csmd.edu 
301-934-2251, ext. 7107

Mailing Address

College of Southern Maryland Library (LIB)
8730 Mitchell Road
P.O. Box 910
La Plata, MD 20646-0910