Anyone is welcome to visit the library! In addition to UCR students, faculty and staff, several other groups of people are welcome to check out books. Only UCR Students, staff and faculty are able to use our online licensed materials off-campus. They are available to all by coming onto the campus.
Yes! Please check Ask A Librarian for information on texting and chat services.
We have student security monitors and security officers who can assist you. Contact the Rivera Library Circulation/Reserves or Orbach Science Library Circulation/Reserves, or text a librarian.
Contact circulations/reserves desks. We can help you locate the book in likely places, put a search on the book, and/or assist you with borrowing from another library until our copy can be located.
Please check our Building Use Policy.
You can contact any service desk. They will notify facilities staff, who will promptly address the situation.
Rivera Library and Orbach Science Library have reservable group study rooms for UCR faculty, staff, and students. There are also five rooms on the 3rd floor of Rivera Library that are public use on a first come first serve basis.
The second floors of Rivera Library and Orbach Science Library are designated quiet floors. If you need absolute quiet in another area, there are earbuds for sale in the vending machines with Bear Bucks.
For most items you can return to any library or box. Course reserves must be returned to the library from which they were taken out. Read more...
We will retrieve the material and have it ready for pickup at the library of your choice within 24-72 hours. Read more.
Yes. Check out the escort services website.
Lost and founds are located at each library's circulation/reserves desks.
Yes, you may book this room. If not booked, this room is for individual or group practice of presentations on a first come, first served basis.
Please consult floor maps posted near entrance ways and elevators.
Please read our Building Use Policy.
Common office supplies such as staplers, tape, scissors and paper cutters are available near circulation/reserves desks. Pens, highlighters and notecards are available in the vending machines and pencils and complimentary scratch paper are available at reference desks.
While students faculty and staff can borrow print materials and request e-book chapters and journal articles, you cannot access e-books licensed at other universities. However, you may request e-books be purchased quickly by UCR.
We no longer provide physical tax forms as all forms are available online.
Yes, students can print using their student quota by using one of the two printers installed and managed by Student Computing & Communications on the first floor of Rivera Library or Orbach Library. Read this article for more details.
You can check out laptops, calculators, and more!
Bluebooks and scantrons are available in the vending machines using your Bear Bucks account.
It's under the barcode on your R'card and starts with 212100… do not include spaces!
Check out our information on printing, copying, and scanning, and equipment locations. You cannot print from a laptop.
Connect from off-campus using VPN.
Save your documents to a thumb drive, hosted service, or your own personal system. Any files you save to library computers will erase when you log off!
Check the UCR catalog to see if we hold an item, if it is on loan already, and when it will be available.
UC faculty, staff and students can request an interlibrary loan by clicking “Request” in the Melvyl (UC) catalog.
Renew online if possible, otherwise call or email Rivera Library Circulation/Course Reserves or Orbach Science Library Circulation/Course Reserves for options.
Find them through the course reserves page.
Check out floor maps posted in the lobbies and near the elevators of each library. Signs with call numbers are posted on each aisle as well.
To donate books or other materials to the UCR Library, please contact the Collection Services department head.
Please sign up for a new workshop and contact the workshop organizer to delete your old spot.
You can submit a request to appeal your bills.
You can go to any circulation/course reserves desks.
Library computers regularly clear all files saved on them. Please save your files to a jump drive or hosted service.
This is for your own security and the security of the collection. If someone claimed to be you and checked out books, you would be liable for the books.