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Vera Anderson
219 Thompson Library
Phone: 810.762.3413
Email: verakay@umflint.edu
Areas covered: General reference, business & management, government resources, political science, public administration, psychology

Mickey Doyle
218 Thompson Library
Phone: 810.762.3401
Email: doylemd@umflint.edu
Areas covered: General reference, circulation, online resources, economics, English

Laura Friesen
317 Thompson Library
Phone: 810.766.6781
Email: lflynn@umflint.edu
Areas covered: General reference, nursing, health care, medicine, theatre & dance, research instruction

Paul Gifford
227 Thompson Library (Genesee Historical Collections Center)
Phone: 810.762.3402
Email: pgifford@umflint.edu
Areas covered: History, archives, liberal studies

Kui-Bin Im
136 Thompson Library
Phone: 810.762.3199
Email: kuibinim@umflint.edu
Areas covered: Chemistry, computer science, Earth & resource science, mathematics, general reference

Emily Newberry
314 Thompson Library
Phone: 810.424.5302
Email: enewberr@umflint.edu
Areas covered: General reference, anthropology, criminal justice, sociology, social media, Twitter, Facebook, Genesee Early College

Vince Prygoski
221 Thompson Library
Phone: 810.762.3404
Email: prygoski@umflint.edu
Areas covered: Social work, education, Africana studies, music, gifts & donations. Also: athletics (especially University of Michigan), rock and folk music, and progressive politics

Paul Streby
316 Thompson Library
Phone: 810.762.3405
Email: pgstreby@umflint.edu
Areas covered: Online resources & web issues, general reference, communication, foreign languages, law, philosophy, religion

Annie Szuch
112 Thompson Library (reference) and 133 Thompson Library (Technical Services)
Phone: 810.766.6726
Email: bszuch@umflint.edu
Areas covered: Art, biology, ornithology, ecology, general reference, cataloging, gifts & donations

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