Water Resource Collections and Archives

Water Resources Collections and Archives

Orbach Science Library
PO Box 5900, Room 118
University of California
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
http://library.ucr.edu/wrca/

Contact
Linda Vida, Director
Phone: 951-827-2934
Email: waterarc[at]ucr.edu

About the Collection
Description of San Francisco water-related materials:
WRCA collects contemporary and historical materials on all aspects of water resources, the bulk of which are geographically focused on Colorado and the West. Therefore, a large portion of the collection is relevant to the history and contemporary body of knowledge pertaining to San Francisco water supply. Included are publications from government agencies (municipal, county, state, and federal), newsletters, journals, monographs, maps, and manuscript collections of engineers and environmental organizations.

Time Period: 1848-1899, 1900-1920, 1921-1949, 1950-1963, 1964-1980, 1981-Present
Types of Material: Books, Digital Files, Films/Videos/Moving Images, Government Documents, Institutional Publications, Institutional Records, Large Format Papers, Manuscripts, Maps, Microfiche/Microfilm, Newspaper Clippings, Oral Histories, Photographs, Printed Works, Rare Books, Serials, Technical Drawings, Unprocessed

Access:
Open to the Public? Yes
Reservations Required? To view archival material
Public Fee? No
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Open to Scholars? Yes
Reservations Required: To view archival material
Scholars Fee? No
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm

Access Procedures:
Contemporary materials circulate; the stacks are publicly accessible. Archival collections, unique materials, and historic documents are non-circulating and must be paged by WRCA staff. On-site materials are generally paged immediately upon request. Holdings stored off-site require at least two days notice to retrieve.

A photocopy machine is available that accepts one dollar bills, coins and campus copy cards. WRCA performs its own interlibrary loan (OCLC code=WCA). Digitization requests are out-sourced; see applicable fees.

Reference assistance is available Monday - Friday 1pm-5pm. A detailed description of the WRCA collection is on the website.

Collection Management Information
Catalog:
The primary online catalog is Scotty.
Finding aids for archival collections are available from the Online Archive of California (OAC)

Digital Formats:
WRCA manages the Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information. The Clearinghouse database includes many full-text documents, some of which are relevant to San Francisco water supply (e.g., Sunol/Niles dam removal on Alameda Creek).

WRCA's eScholarship repository includes contemporary full-text restoration and hydrology papers, many of which pertain to San Francisco water resources.

Other digitized materials are available from Scotty records, OAC, and the Western Waters Digital Library.

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Submitted: 1/31/2007
Last Updated: 5/31/2011