A display highlighting selected items from the personal archival collection of Arthur C. Harmon and his career as a Tuskegee Airman is set to open on June 6 in UCR Library's Special Collections Department. Community members can visit the display on the fourth floor of Tomas Rivera Library in the Special Collections Reading Room Mondays...
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...
This month in 4 to Explore, your Special Collections librarians and archivists have selected four new items and placed them on hold in the reading room. Here's what you can see this June in 4 to Explore: Bookbinding Models Sample structures by Karen Hanmer Commencement Setup Photos See UCR graduation in the 1990s T etsuwan...
The end of each academic year brings many goodbyes, both farewells to graduating students and to members of our career staff who will retire in 2018. We would like to recognize and celebrate the following UCR Library colleagues, who shared snippets of their UCR history with us: Diane David Music Cataloger Diane David started as...
Starting on July 16, 2018, how you access library materials will look and feel different. On this date the UCR Library will launch an enhanced library catalog with a modern, mobile-responsive visual display and new search tools. The new library catalog (formerly known as “Scotty”) will have a streamlined user experience with improved access to...
As the second-largest student employer on campus, each spring the UCR Library takes time to celebrate the students who comprise half of our staff team. At the 2018 Student Employee and Staff Appreciation Luncheon held in the lower courtyard at Rivera Library, we also recognized these 27 library student employees who will graduate with UC...
At all-staff meetings held on May 15 and 16, Library Human Resources acknowledged one UCR Library employee for her outstanding contributions. Communications Specialist Melanie Ramiro was included in the second announcement of UCR Library team members who were recognized through the KUDOS program. Under the KUDOS program, non-probationary staff and academic employees at the UCR...
It’s hard to believe that another academic year is drawing to a close, but suddenly Finals Week for spring quarter 2018 is only days away. UCR Library remains committed to creating a supportive atmosphere to help our students cope with the stress of final exams, which is why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief...
The UCR Library is pleased to share that Stacy Ramos accepted the Human Resources Generalist position in Library Human Resources. Stacy is currently attending California Baptist University for her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resources Management and spent nine years in a human resources generalist capacity at Napa...
The UCR Library is pleased to announce that Andrew Lippert has accepted the position of Special Collections Processing Archivist for Special Collections and University Archives. A member of the Twin Cities Archives Round Table and an at-large member of the Steering Committee for the Science, Technology and Healthcare Section of the Society of American Archivists...
Currently an institutional archivist for The J. Paul Getty Trust, the world's largest cultural and philanthropic organization dedicated to the visual arts, class of ’08 alumna Sara Seltzer began her career as a UCR Library student employee in Special Collections and University Archives. “I’ll never forget when I got that job,” Seltzer said. “I came...
Entrepreneur-in-residence and UC Riverside instructor Jay Gilberg has enjoyed using the Creat’R Lab to mentor aspiring innovators who are part of the NSF I-Corps Startups for Innovators Program at UCR. “I love helping people to achieve their dreams by creating a business,” Gilberg explained. “It’s important to nurture entrepreneurship in a university setting. The average...
Talking with the presenters of Footsteps to You: Chattel Slavery, the visiting exhibition currently in the UC Riverside Special Collections department, revealed some noteworthy facts about Black History and the City of Riverside. Riverside had many interesting connections to Black history at the turn of the last century, according to Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds, Publisher of...
This month in 4 to Explore, your Special Collections librarians and archivists have selected four new items and placed them on hold in the reading room. Here's what you can see this February in 4 to Explore: A Diction An odd-shaped artist's book by Heather Weston Sand Samples Collected to study sand d isplacement and...
Sam Tang is a class of 2018 Mechanical Engineering major who has worked for the past four years as student employee for the UCR Library’s Cyberinfrastructure department. This position requires Tang to maintain computers and peripherals for library users and to help staff solve problems connecting to email, printer malfunctions, and other troubleshooting issues. “It’s...
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...
Rancho Mirage based novelist Michael Craft has generously donated his papers and professional archive to the UCR Library’s Special Collections department. Craft has published 14 novels , including the highly acclaimed Mark Manning mystery series, three of which were honored as finalists for the Gay Men’s Mystery genre by the Lambda Literary Awards ( Name...
This month, Associate University Librarian for the Digital Library Diane Bisom received notice that the UCR Library was the single largest contributor in 2017 to the online digital collection of governmental records that is part of the HathiTrust Digital Library. The UCR Library provided more than 8,000 book-length digitized U.S. government publications to HathiTrust in...
In 2015, the Student Managers Initiative Committee, comprised of student managers from various departments at UC Riverside, identified a need on campus for more training, support, and use of best practices for student supervisors. The committee’s findings inspired Vice Chancellor for Business and Administrative Services Ron Coley to approve and fund the committee’s desire to...
This month in 4 to Explore, your Special Collections librarians and archivists have selected four new items and placed them on hold in the reading room. Here's what you can see this January in 4 to Explore: Winter Sequences A seasonal broadside poem by Diane Wakoski Sand Samples Collected to study sand displacement and acquisition...