Phil Hallman is the Film Studies Field Librarian for the Department of Film, Television and Media (FTVM) and the University of Michigan Library.

He has three main areas of responsibility:

Head of the Donald Hall Collection, the Department of Film, Television and Media’s library of more than 30,000 dvds, 4,000 screenplays, books and film prints.  The library is located on the sixth floor of the Academic Tower of North Quad.

Reference Librarian and Selector for the Hatcher Graduate Library’s book and periodical collection in the subject area of film, television and digital media.

Curator for the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection, housed within the Special Collections Research Center, a vast assortment of archival papers of filmmakers including Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph, John Sayles, Nancy Savoca and Jonathan Demme (not processed), as well as specialized indie distributors Ira Deutchman and Robert Shaye.