The UCR Library is delighted to announce that Cindi Tompkins has joined the UCR Library as our new Director of Organizational Design and Human Resources. Cindi will be located in Library Human Resources on the first floor of the Tomas Rivera Library, reporting to Steven Mandeville-Gamble, University Librarian. Cindi earned her Bachelor of Science, Business...
After 18 months in development, the first release of the DocNow tool is expected by fall/winter 2017. DocNow, short for “Documenting the Now,” is a free, open-source tool designed to support the ethical appraisal, collection, use, and preservation of social media content. The purpose of DocNow is to help archivists and scholars make sense of...
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...
Due to the staffing challenges in Special Collections and University Archives, service hours will be changing effective Monday, July 31, 2017. Summer Hours July 31– September 22, 2017 Monday - Friday 9:00 am – 11:00 am: By appointment only to current UCR faculty, staff, and enrolled students* 11:00 am – 4:00 pm: Open to the...
The California Digital Library and the UCR Library recently partnered to digitize nearly 6,000 photographs from the Jay Kay Klein papers – and completed the task in less than two days. “If we had done the same project in-house, it would have taken us several months to do,” said University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble. UC Riverside...
We are delighted to announce that Megan De Leon has joined the UC Riverside team effective Monday, July 24, 2017 as the Associate Director of Development for the UCR Library. UC Riverside is in the midst of its first comprehensive development campaign, " Living the Promise ," working to raise $300 million to enable the...
Recently, our UCR Library facilities team completed the installation of upgrades to five study rooms on the second floor of Tomás Rivera Library, which are designated as the “David W. Musso Quiet Study Rooms.” These improvements were made possible by the generosity of David W. Musso, a UCR Class of 1959 alumnus. During his time...
UCR Library is pleased to share that Joanne Austin accepted the Reserves Coordinator position. Joanne holds her Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science from the University of La Verne and a MLS in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. Joanne spent four years as a Supervising Library Clerk before joining the...
The UCR Library is pleased to announce that Charlotte Dominguez has accepted the Digitization Project Coordinator position for the collaborative UCR Library and Sherman Indian Museum effort to digitize the museum’s collection. Charlotte holds her Bachelor of Arts degree in Public and Oral History from California State University, San Bernardino, and a Master of Library...
Medical Library Programs Coordinator Tiffany Moxham just marked her three-year anniversary at the UCR Library on July 1, 2017. Her presence has been auspicious for the inaugural class of 40 students who graduated from UC Riverside’s School of Medicine this June. The UCR Library played an integral part in the formative years of UCR’s School...
On June 15, 2017, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition ( SPARC) hosted the first in a series of professional development webcasts for librarians who advocate for openness in research and education on their campuses. UCR Library’s own Director of Research Services, Brianna Marshall, was a presenter on their June webcast, Scrappy Strategies: Advancing...
California’s textbook adoption process is ready to take its next step forward – but first, the State Department of Education needs your input. All of the History/Social Science instructional materials currently up for consideration are now available in Room 217, the Learning Resources Display Center (LRDC), on the second floor of Tomás Rivera Library. These...
The University of California, Riverside hosted the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) 2017 conference from Wednesday, June 28 to Saturday, July 1. This year's conference theme was "Unknown Pasts / Unseen Futures." Home to the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, UCR also runs the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science graduate program, and...
Special Collections and University Archives recently digitized UCR Library's collection of original citrus labels and made the images available worldwide via Calisphere. The collection features citrus labels from southern California brands primarily based in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Orange counties. “People just like citrus labels, so this was something we’d been thinking of doing for...
UC Riverside's Architects and Engineers office announced a construction project that will impact areas surrounding Orbach Science Library, scheduled to begin on June 19, 2017. The project's work hours will be from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm on weekdays, and will consist of removing, replacing, and modifying the existing concrete path across East Campus Drive...
Recently, Alertus Desktop Notification was installed on all library computer workstations. This software is meant to notify UC Riverside library users of on-campus emergency or threat issues. What is Alertus? The application functions as an alerting system for staff, students, and patrons that use library computer workstations. Alertus Emergency Notification System works in conjunction with...
It’s hard to believe that the 2016-2017 year is drawing to a close, but suddenly Finals Week is only days away. UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere to help our students cope with the stress of final exams. This is why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief event series at the...
UCR Library is pleased to announce that the Digital Initiatives Program Manager position was offered to Eric Milenkiewicz, and he has accepted. His new title was effective on June 1, 2017. Eric joined the library in 2001. For the past 16 years, he has worked as the Manuscripts Curator in Special Collections and University Archives...
Dr. Juliette Levy returned to UCR Library to take students on a second foray into her early-stage virtual reality prototype, “Che’s Village.” The prototype was built to amplify students' experience of studying Che Guevara's speech, "Social Ideals of the Rebel Army," which he delivered on January 27, 1959. The second round of VR experimentation took...
UCR Library patrons have a new, convenient way to pay online for reproduction services. Did you even know that you can request copies of materials from our Special Collections department? Indeed, you can, and library staff will provide them for you in research or publication quality, as high-resolution TIFFs, JPEGs, or PDFs. (Details about our...