UCR Library is delighted to announce that Sabrina Simmons has joined the library as our Access Services Desk Assistant – Orbach, effective March 13, 2017. Sabrina will be located in Circulation/Course Reserves on the first floor of the Orbach Science Library, reporting to Elisha Hankins, Access Services Desk Supervisor. Sabrina earned her BS in Dietetics...
It’s hard to believe that Winter Quarter 2017 is already drawing to a close, but suddenly we find ourselves with Finals Week only days away. UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere for our students, and final exams can tend to breed a lot of stress. That is why we present our Finals...
When the hashtag #UCRStandsTogether appeared on social media last month, the UCR Library joined in solidarity with other UC Riverside departments to demonstrate our commitment to inclusiveness and appreciation of diversity. The latest addition to our library facilities reinforces our commitment to those values. A gender-inclusive restroom has been added to the second floor of...
UCR Library is delighted to announce that Raul Aguilera has joined the UCR Library team effective today, March 6, 2017 as our Access Services Desk Assistant - Rivera. Raul will be located in Circulation/Course Reserves on the first floor of the Rivera Library, reporting to Leslie Settle, Circulation Services Desk Supervisor. Raul earned his BA...
Vamp & Tramp Booksellers Bill and Vicky Stewart put as many miles on their minivan each year touring the country to share their love of artists’ books as the average person racks up in his daily work commute. Birmingham, Alabama is where Bill and Vicky call home, yet they spend nearly 11 months on the...
January 2017 saw the release of Duplicator Underground: The Independent Publishing Industry in Communist Poland, 1976-89 (Slavica Publishers), edited by UCR Deputy University Librarian Ann Frenkel, retired UCR Librarian Gwido Zlatkes, and Polish historian Paweł Sowiński. The book is the first comprehensive scholarly discussion in English of Polish independent publishing in the 1970s and 1980s...
UC Riverside’s Associate Professor of History Juliette Levy likes to teach from the edge of the e-learning revolution. Her latest experiment involved a virtual reality (VR) platform intended to stimulate intellectual learning on an emotional level for the students in her History 20 / World History course. Dr. Levy co-created a VR application called “Che’s...
On Friday, February 24, 2017, library online services will have intermittent network outages f rom 6:15 pm - 8:15 pm. After the Library closes at 6:00 pm on that date, UCR Network Operations in collaboration with a member of the library's Cyberinfrastructure team will perform additional optimization work on the library’s network routers. This optimization...
Many hands make for light work – and when the job is sorting more than 21,000 comic books, you need a lot of hands. Jim Clark, Head of the Database Management and Authority Control Unit, and Erika Quintana, Acquisitions Unit Supervisor were tagged as team leaders and charged with tackling the project of sorting 142...
Many people grumble over their inability to effect change. However, UCR Library’s Coordinator of Education Services Christopher Martone will serve on a team of influencers to determine which textbooks are used throughout California’s elementary and middle schools. Recently selected as an Instructional Materials Reviewer by the California State Department of Education and appointed to the...
F rom 6:15 pm-7:15 pm on Friday, February 10, 2017, all library online services will be temporarily unavailable due to routine network maintenance. After the Library closes at 6:00 pm, UCR Network Operations in collaboration with a member of the library's Cyberinfrastructure team will perform routine maintenance on the library’s network routers. During this period...
UCR Library is pleased to announce that the Executive Assistant to the University Librarian position was offered to Terri Gutierrez, and she has accepted. Her new title will be effective beginning February 1, 2017. We appreciate the superior political acumen, efficiency, and effectiveness that Terri brings to this position. Terri first joined the library in...
Most 16 year-olds are taking the SAT and starting to apply to colleges. Victoria Scott is already living the dream as a first-year student here at UC Riverside. The youngest of three children raised by a single mother in Berkeley, California, Victoria showed academic promise very early in life. “I went straight from preschool to...
The cost of higher education creeps higher every year, and a UCR task force felt that students should never have to choose between eating and buying textbooks. A team of UC Riverside faculty, librarians, and information technology professionals joined forces to provide some incentives to make textbooks less costly. Their intention was to bridge the...
William Shakespeare may never have envisioned his “Much Ado About Nothing” heroine Beatrice quite like this, but a UK-based design firm did. Cherry Williams, UCR Library’s Director of Distinctive Collections received a request from the firm Stylorouge Ltd. for an image of Mexican Soldaderas from our Battle of Ciudad Juarez photograph collection in Special Collections...
Join us as we examine the academic themes of Living the Promise: The Campaign for UC Riverside, and how UCR is impacting our community, our nation, and our world, and how you are part of it all. Living the Promise Symposia are a yearlong series that will reflect on the key themes of UCR’s comprehensive...
On January 4, 2017, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announced that the UCR Library and the Sherman Indian Museum would receive a $376,191 Digitizing Hidden Collections grant, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for a collaborative project to digitize the museum’s collection. “Their collection houses thousands of one-of-a-kind documents about...
UCR Library has now made the PolicyMap data and mapping application available to patrons. PolicyMap contains data for the United States at various levels of geographic detail. Topics include demographics, income, quality of life, real estate, and education. Over 150 authoritative public and proprietary sources generate the data. Among other features, PolicyMap allows users to...
In fall quarter 2016, a small task force convened to evaluate UCR Library’s single search (“OneSearch”) on the website homepage and make recommendations to improve user experience. This week, the library implemented the first round of suggested changes. When you now conduct a search, you will notice the following: • Drag-and-drop functionality allows you to...
As with the previous two U.S. presidential inaugurations, the UCR Library will livestream the swearing-in ceremony and inaugural address of the 45 th President of the United States. If you would like to engage further in discussions about the current climate in Washington D.C., U.S. Congressman Mark Takano (D‐Riverside) will visit campus on Tuesday, January...