This month in 4 to Explore, your Special Collections librarians and archivists have selected four new items and placed them on hold in the reading room. Here's what you can see this November in 4 to Explore: I'isniyatam (Designs) A self-published 1977 Cahuilla word book Thanksgiving Day A Cuban artist's book of Carvajal Marrer's poem...
Special Collections & University Archives staff are constantly working to process recently acquired collections and make those materials ready for use by students, faculty, and researchers. Each quarter, we will provide a list of UCR Library's newly processed archival and primary source collections. Check out the list below to see if there are any items...
For the past 10 years, the City of Riverside has debated whether to build a new main library or to renovate the library’s existing building. One of our UCR Library team members was involved in this landmark decision in October 2017. Early Experience Teaching Librarian Michael Yonezawa has also served for the past year as...
Moises Martinez Cortez is a fourth-year Global Studies major who has worked as a Front Desk Assistant at UCR Library since fall quarter of his freshman year. He grew up in the Lynwood – Downey area of Los Angles as the youngest of six children, raised by a single mother who immigrated from Nayarit, along...
Change is in the air as UCR Library leaders work to transform the Library into a library of the future. Since University Librarian Steve Mandeville-Gamble started at UCR in 2013, he has focused on developing strategies to support and accelerate the research and teaching programs on campus. One of the objectives in the Library’s Strategic...
As the first person in his entire family to attend college, Carlos Rodriguez ’90 was a true pioneer when he arrived at UC Riverside for orientation in 1985. “Since then everyone has followed me,” Rodriguez said. After he blazed the trail, both of his sisters went to college and graduate school. “All my cousins have...
UCR Library’s Director of Teaching and Learning, Dani Brecher Cook recently published her first book, Learner-Centered Pedagogy: Principles and Practice. Cook co-wrote the book with Kevin Michael Klipfel, who also contributes to their shared blog, Rule Number One. “It was something we’ve talked about doing since library school,” Cook said of their collaboration. Inspired by...
The University of California, Riverside Library and campus partners will host several events in celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day and Geography Awareness Week. This year, GIS Day will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 15, and Geography Awareness Week is from Nov. 12-18. GIS Day, first established in 1999, provides an international forum for...
We are pleased to announce that effective Monday, October 2, 2017, Joseph Tanksley joined the UCR Library team as our Web Developer and User Interface Designer. Joe will be located in Room 114 on the first floor of the Orbach Science Library, reporting to Diane Bisom, Associate University Librarian for the Digital Library. Joe earned...
This month in 4 to Explore, your Special Collections librarians and archivists have selected four new items and placed them on hold in the reading room. Here's what you can see this October in 4 to Explore: Maneater A fun-to-use artist's book by Hannah Batsel Frankenstein Beautifully designed and illustrated by Barry Moser Campus Events...
The University of California, Riverside Library will host International Open Access Week 2017, as part of a global effort called Open Access Week. The event will be on Wednesday, Oct. 25, in the Orbach Science Library, Room 240, from 9:30 am - 11:00 am. “ Open in Order to Save Data for Future Research” is...
The UCR Library will host a poster contest as part of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day 2017 activities at UC Riverside, in collaboration with the Center for Conservation Biology, the Department of Earth Sciences, the Department of Environmental Sciences, UCR Extension, the Department of Psychology, and Capital Asset Strategies. GIS Day, first established in 1999...
On Friday, Oct. 20, the UCR Library will broadcast Forum Four of Diversifying the Digital series, titled: “Integration: Why and How to Address Integration with National Digital Collections Initiatives.” The forum will discuss how to integrate community archives into a nationwide digital platform and the importance of including diverse communities’ voices in our recordkeeping while...
Beginning in fall quarter 2017, each month librarians and archivists will select four items from UCR Library’s Special Collections and place them on hold for anyone to use in the reading room. This new program will be called "4 to Explore." Because Special Collections materials are kept in closed stacks (which means you can’t see...
The University of California, Riverside Library will host International Open Access Week 2017, as part of a global effort called Open Access Week. The event will be on Wednesday, Oct. 25, in the Orbach Science Library, Room 240, from 9:30 am - 11:00 am. “ Open in Order to Save Data for Future Research” is...
In response to faculty input about serving a broader range of the UC Riverside community, the library will expand its large-format (poster) printing services starting on September 25, 2017. Poster printing is available Room 121 on the first floor of Orbach Science Library. Changes to the large-format printing policy will include the following: Any academic...
The UCR Library is pleased to announce that Wendy Williams-Clark is now serving as the Interim Director of Organizational Design and Human Resources . This appointment became effective Tuesday, September 12, and Wendy will be reporting directly to University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble. The library anticipates that this temporary appointment will be for at least 9...
Select pieces from The Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy will be included in an upcoming UCR ARTSblock exhibition. Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas will feature the work of artists from various Latin American countries and Latino artists based in the United States, in addition to eleven pieces from the...
When Calisphere released the online gallery of 5,933 recently digitized photos from the Jay Kay Klein photographs and papers on science fiction fandom last week, the UCR Library’s team was thrilled with the rapid response of the science fiction fan community. Within 15 hours of publication, chats about the images lit up fan blogs, including...
On Wednesday, August 16, 2017, approximately 26 library employees attended a luncheon workshop in Tomás Rivera Library sponsored by the Library Professional Development Committee. The workshop topic was “Work-Life Balance” and featured a webinar plus small group discussion and sharing exercises. “This topic was purposely picked from the suggestions staff gave in the first ever...