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Arts & Humanities Interdisciplinary Team

Overview

The Arts & Humanities Team facilitates, promotes, and engages in collection development and provision of public services, including reference and instruction across the arts and humanities in support of seamless access to library collections.

The purpose of the Arts & Humanities Team is threefold:

  • To maximize existing resources for the purpose of a centralized, comprehensive, holistic approach to collection development, reference, and instructionin the support of the research and curricular needs of the Arts and Humanities Schools and Departments
  • To build a cross-disciplinary knowledge base among team members and with our colleagues on other teams
  • To provide an underlying structure for a unified intellectual conception of the library so it plays a defined integral role in support of the USC and USC Libraries strategic plans

Team Membership

Member Area

Anthony Anderson
anthonya@usc.edu
(213) 740 1190
  • Drama
  • Theater
  • Musical Theater
  • Dance

Stephanie Bonjack

bonjack@usc.edu

(213) 740-2926

  • Music

Amy Ciccone
aciccone@usc.edu
(213) 740 1958
  • Classics
  • Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
  • Reference Collection

Sandra Garcia-Myers
garciamy@usc.edu
(213) 740 8383
  • Cinema
  • Television

Steve Hanson
shanson@usc.edu
(213) 740 7273
  • Cinema
  • Television

Brian Harlan
harlan@usc.edu
(213) 741 5906
  • Arts and Humanities Center, Chair

Joy Kim
joykim@usc.edu
(213) 740 2329
  • Korean Language and Culture

Sophie Lesinska
lesinska@usc.edu
(213) 740 7373

Hari Rorlich
rorlich@usc.edu
(213) 740 3572
  • French and Italian Language and Literature
  • German Language and Literature

Ross Scimeca
scimeca@usc.edu

(213) 741 3129

 
  • History of Science and Technology
  • Philosophy
  • Linguistics
  • Religion

Ruth Wallach
rwallach@usc.edu
(213) 740 6917
  • Architecture, Art History, and Fine Arts
  • Comparative Literature
  • Slavic Language and Literature

Lillian Yang
lilianya@usc.edu
(213) 740 8548
  • Chinese Language and Culture

Team Leader: Kevin Mulroy

Services

  • Reference - Provides assistance to library users
    • Walk-in service at Doheny Reference Center, Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library
    • One-on-one consultations
    • E-mail
    • Ask-A-Librarian chat
  • Instruction
    • Classroom instruction
    • Orientations
    • Tours

Collection Development

  • Contact a librarian regarding a specific discipline
  • Recommend-A-Book: suggest a library purchase
  • LEAP: for emergency purchase requests that are needed quickly
  • Ongoing selection of materials based on research and curricular needs
The Arts and Humanities Team is affiliated with the Arts and Humanities and Graduate Research Interdisciplinary Center comprised of the following libraries:
  • Doheny Reference Center, Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library
  • Cinema-Television Library
  • Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library
  • Hoose Philosophy Library
  • Music Library