Bring your best pair of reading glasses – you’ll need them. The University of California, Riverside Library will host “The Magic of Miniature Books” exhibit Jan. 18 through March 30. “Miniature books have a long and interesting history, with the earliest miniatures created approximately 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia,” said Cherry Williams, the director of...

UCR Library is currently running a patron-driven acquisition pilot program for the expanded collection of Alexander Street Press streaming videos. With Alexander Street Press videos, library users can create clips and playlists, quote directly from the video transcript, and discover new content for use in teaching and research. With this resource, UCR Library can provide...

UCR Library is proud to congratulate our Outreach & Public Services Librarian, Robin M. Katz for receiving the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association. The James Harvey Robinson Prize is awarded to the creators of a teaching aid that has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history...

The holiday season tends to inspire a spirit of giving and goodwill. Access Services Desk Supervisor Leslie Settle has discovered a way to extend that magnanimous feeling throughout the whole year. It began five years ago, when Leslie first heard about the Guardian Scholars Program during a Staff Assembly. “I recognized one of the students...

Here are some suggestions from the library team for new things to try in 2017 that you might not have known you could do at UCR Library, or that you may never have tried before. They might even make you feel like a kid in a candy store. Explore Rare Treasures in Special Collections &...

Our Jay Kay and Doris Klein Librarian for Science Fiction, JJ Jacobson recently contributed a chapter to a book titled, Teaching and Learning in Virtual Environments: Archives, Museums, and Libraries. JJ’s chapter, Crowdsourcing the Fictive Experience: Virtual-World Emergent Narrative from a Collections Perspective, is about the practice of Immersive Interactive Improvisatory Narrative, or IIIN. “It’s...

UCR Library is pleased to announce that Nicole Valencia has accepted the Financial Services Analyst position in Library Administration. Nicole will transition from her temporary role to a permanent UCR employee on Monday, December 19. Nicole has over twenty years of experience working in accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, purchasing, cashiering and collections in higher...

UCR Library is pleased to announce that Kimberlee Frederick has accepted the Digitization Project Coordinator position in Collection Maintenance. Kimberlee transitioned from her role as Circulation/Course Reserves Assistant on December 12, 2016. As the Digitization Project Coordinator, Kimberlee took over the day-to-day management of the student employees and workflows for the Google and Federal Documents...

On Tuesday, November 29, 2016, students of the Music Department’s debut course “Genealogy of Hip-Hop” became the first to use UCR Library’s new Dexter Thomas Japanese Hip-Hop Collection. Dani Brecher Cook, Director of Teaching & Learning at UCR Library, collaborated with Dr. Liz Przybylski, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology to make this new archive available for...

On Friday, November 18, UCR Library team members Elisha Hankins and Sahra Missaghieh Klawitter were the closing speakers at the 2016 Access Services Conference. Their presentation title was: It’s The Finals Countdown – Finals Week Stress Relief Programming at the UCR Library. The 2016 Access Services Conference theme was “Unlocking the 21 st Century Library.”...

Three UCR Library employees presented as part of a Homecoming panel at the Campus Showcase Exhibit – Working on Campus on Saturday, November 19, 2016. Library Human Resources Generalist Wendy Williams-Clark spoke as part of the employers panel, and members of the student employee panel included library student assistants Mohammed Jawara, a Political Science Law...

Orbach Library and Rivera Library will have expanded schedules during fall quarter finals week. Library Hours: Orbach Library will be open for 24-hours beginning at 7:30 AM on Wednesday, November 30 and ending at midnight on Thursday, December 8. Rivera Library will remain open until 2:00 AM each day from Friday, December 2 through Wednesday...

It’s hard to believe that Fall Quarter 2016 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...

On Thursday, November 17, 2016, UCR Library announced the opening of the George Brown Papers for scholarly research. A private reception held on the first floor of Tomás Rivera Library honored Congressman George Brown’s life and work and recognized how his legacy will continue to serve future generations through this collection. Attendees included Brown’s widow...

UCR Library had a timely contribution to this year's Homecoming activities: UC Riverside yearbooks are now available online via Calisphere. The yearbooks were prepared and digitized by staff of the Library’s Special Collections & University Archives, Preservation, and Metadata and Technical Services departments. “UCR’s student yearbooks are a significant historical resource that provides the campus...

Last week, we saw an election unlike anything that any of us alive today could have imagined even a few years ago. Some have used the rhetoric that emerged during the campaign and afterward as a legitimization for disrespectful speech and violent action towards those that they do not understand and therefore fear. As one...

On the afternoon of Thursday, November 10, 2016, UCR Library celebrated the opening of a new exhibition, titled, “Orange Roots: The Remarkable Story of Two Trees, a Pioneer Town, and the University of California, Riverside.” The reception featured a presentation by Riverside native and Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Susan Straight, who shared a magical...

UCR Library’s GIS Day Poster Exhibition opened on Thursday, November 3, 2016 in the atrium of Orbach Science Library, showcasing the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The 2016 display includes submissions from a diverse variety of contributors, including external community agencies as well as faculty, staff, and students of UC Riverside. “I was really...

UCR Library is pleased to announce that Noah Geraci has joined our team as the Digital Assets Metadata Librarian. Noah is part of the Metadata & Technical Services Department reporting to Manuel Urrizola. In this exciting new position, Noah will participate in digital initiatives and metadata projects across all library departments. Noah received his Bachelor...

Hayden Jackson is a third-year Political Science major with a minor in Statistics. He’s also a first-generation university student from Ripon, California and the eldest of three children. “UCR kind of found me, rather than the other way around,” Hayden explained. “When I stepped on campus at UCR, it just felt right. My counselors said...