UCR Library’s Professional Development Committee (PDC) held its kick-off event on Wednesday, August 17, 2016. More than half of the library’s academic and staff employees came to one of the two sessions, held in Rivera and Orbach libraries. The PDC comprises Library employees who volunteered to participate in cultivating opportunities for professional development. With members...
The UCR Library was one of the sponsors at the Association of African American Museums 2016 Annual Conference. In addition, the Library also hosted an exhibit, titled “ Tuskegee Airmen and the Great Western Migration, 1940-1970,” curated by Bergis Jules, University and Political Papers Archivist. Ann Marshall and Shar Huston of Annex Design Services created...
Effective August 9, 2016, Diane Bisom’s title has been changed to Associate University Librarian for the Digital Library. This development will position the UCR Library for continued success as a major academic research library. Diane will retain her existing departments and units; she will also begin planning and implementing the creation of a Digital Initiatives...
In early 2011, the UCR Library acquired the McLeod Collection of Sikh Studies from the widow of William Hewat “Hew” McLeod, a New Zealand scholar who wrote many books and essays about Sikh history, theology, and cultural identity. This collection contains nearly 2,000 volumes devoted to topics including Sikh religion, culture, art, and history. Kuei...
Janet Reyes is our new Geospatial Information Librarian for the UCR Library. Janet spent her professional career creating or using a variety of geographic data. Prior to coming to UC Riverside, the bulk of her career was spent at Aerial Information Systems Inc. ( AIS), an environmental consulting firm in Redlands, California that specializes in...
The winners of this year's student book collecting contest were announced at an awards ceremony in Rivera Library on May 24, 2016. In the graduate category, Andrew Shaler won for California: The Long Nineteenth Century, a collection focused on Indian history in the Gold Rush era. Nicholas Dotson won the undergraduate category with Michael Jackson...
Dani Brecher Cook is our new Director of Teaching and Learning at the UCR Library. Dani's key responsibility is to lead the development, implementation, and ongoing program for library teaching and learning services and initiatives to support the curricular and research activities of UCR faculty, researchers and students. The opportunity to establish a new teaching...
Camille Mahant joined the UCR Library team on Monday, July 18, 2016, as a Financial and Administrative Analyst. Camille's key responsibilities are to provide financial, budgetary, analytical and administrative support to the Administration of the University Library. Camille brings five years of experience as a financial analyst within the University of California-Riverside’s Business and Administrative...
Flexible classrooms provide space for students, faculty, and librarians to teach collaboratively and engage students in active learning and critical thinking. Thanks to a campus technology grant submitted under the leadership of Associate University Librarian Ann Frenkel, a Rivera Library classroom recently underwent a “flexible” transformation. Splashes of bright tangerine now brighten the space of...
Two changes took effect in the UCR Library on Wednesday, June 22nd. First, the last coin towers were removed. This means that from now on, all the UCR Library printers and copiers will only accept payments via R’Cards / Bear Bucks. Secondly, per campus policy, library desk staff will no longer be able to make...
A reception held on May 26 th at the Riverside Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties concluded a year-long series of programs for The Latino Americans: 500 Years of History grant, which the UCR Library received from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the American Library Association. Under the hashtag #LA500, the grant...
On Friday, May 20, 2016, the UCR Librar y in partnership with the Graduate School of Education (GSOE) celebrated the importance of diversity in children’s literature at a special event that also honored the 100 th birthday and ground-breaking work of author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. The event program featured a presentation by Dr...
An exhibition featuring the work of regional amateur astrophotographers opened in Orbach Library on Thursday, May 26. Focus on the Universe: Astrophotographers of Southern California features stunning views of night skies and celestial bodies from local sites including Joshua Tree, Moreno Valley, and San Diego. Images were selected by Mario de Leo Winkler, the exhibition...
Though only in his second month at the UCR Library, Kent LaCombe is already in the midst of several projects designed to help better preserve and provide access to the library’s rich collection of water-related materials. As the Water Resources Librarian he is responsible for managing and curating the library’s unique contemporary and historic materials...
The UCR Library has been host to Pablo Gomez, visiting scholar from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, throughout Spring Quarter, 2016. Gomez found his way to the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy after an international search for a library that could provide access to the largest possible number of works in these genres...
Noted musicologist Walter Clark came to the University of California, Riverside in 2003 with two primary goals in mind: to create an emphasis on Latin American music in the program here and to help develop a doctoral program in musicology, ethnomusicology, and composition. Thirteen years later he is still at UCR, now serving as Chair...
The UCR Library’s 3D printer was featured with demonstrations for over 140 honors students during “Geek Week” in early January. This event launched a new collaborative program between the Library and University Honors (UH) to foster curiosity and exploration, build a sustainable peer resource program, and increase student collaboration with interdisciplinary projects. The UH Peer...
Exhibit honoring past UCR Chancellor now on display. Tomás Rivera: UCR and Higher Education Retrospective / Tomás Rivera: Una retrospective sobre UCR y la Educacion Superior Now Open Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 – 5:00 pm Special Collections & University Archives Tomás Rivera Library, 4th floor An exhibition honoring Tomás Rivera, the youngest and first...
Tiffany López is an inspiration not only on the University of California, Riverside campus, but regionally and nationally as well. She is dedicated to creating awareness of cultural history, and providing insight into the intersection of art and creative production’s role in personal and social change. López is a professor in the UCR Department of...
Beta test invites public to provide input. The UCR Library has announced the successful beta launch of our new library website. On February 1st, 2016 library presented the redesign for public testing and comment. The beta site, available at betalib.ucr.edu, presents a cleaner, sleeker, ADA-compliant, and mobile and tablet-friendly interface that highlights the library’s services...