Fifty-five hours. Fifty-five hours was the time that the UCR Library had to convert its operations to a completely-remote mode—from when the Riverside County Public Health Officer’s order to close all county campuses due to the COVID-19 crisis was received at close of business on Friday, March 13, 2020, to the moment it went into...
UC Riverside Library is continuing its focus on expanding access to heavily demanded electronic content with a new local license to the Journal of Visualized Experiments ( JoVE). JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science videos with the mission to improve scientific research and education, according to the company’s website. Content available to...
The UCR Library staff and African Student Programs collaborated to create a guide for the UCR community on the Black Lives Matter movement. The guide provides general sources and research information about the Black Lives Matter movement and related social justice issues. It includes websites, books and e-books, streaming videos, podcasts, databases, and more. It...
On Thurs., Aug. 6, the UCR Library’s new series Faculty Profiles in Research, Art and Innovation will welcome Clifford E. Trafzer, Distinguished Professor of History and Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs. During his presentation, Fighting Invisible Enemies Among Southern California Indians 1900-1950, Trafzer will discuss how Southern California Indian communities combined Western and...
UC’s negotiating team continues to communicate with Elsevier. While progress remains slow, there are a number of recent developments that we hope may give fresh impetus to these discussions: COVID-19 As a recent Los Angeles Times column laid out, the need for access to research has never been clearer. In fact, many publishers, including Elsevier...
On June 16, 2020, the University of California announced a transformative open access publishing agreement that will make more of the university’s research freely and immediately available to individuals and researchers across the globe. The deal furthers the global push for open access to scientific research by bringing together UC, which accounts for nearly 10...
Each spring, the UCR Library typically hosts a Student Employee and Staff Appreciation Picnic to honor the people who serve the UC Riverside community through their work at the library. Due to the COVID-19 closure, we were not able to hold the celebration this year, nor could we recognize the 22 library student employees who...
Photos from the Jay Kay Klein papers in Special Collections were featured in a June 12, 2020 article and gallery by Cosplay Central writer Brian Jacks. The story, These Photos From The 1966 World Science Fiction Convention Prove Cosplaying Is Timeless: Photographer Jay Kay Klein covered the Cleveland event filled with costumed fans, was published...
After almost three months’ closure, starting Monday, June 15, 2020, you can now check out books from the Rivera and Orbach Libraries’ circulating collections via drive-up Contact-Free Curbside Delivery. Pick-up is Monday through Friday from 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. at the Rivera Library loading dock. To use this service, submit a paging request from the...
On Thurs., June 25, bestselling authors and UC Riverside professors Dr. Nalo Hopkinson and Prof. John Jennings will be the featured guests at an online event titled, Afrofuturist Comics: Sankofa and the Black Speculative Re-Imagination. Hopkinson and Jennings will discuss their most recent publications, House of Whispers Vol. 1: The Power Divided (The Sandman Universe)...
The UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere for our students, as final exams can breed a lot of stress -- this quarter, even more so than most. That is why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief (FWSR) event series: to serve and support students at UC Riverside. This quarter, we had...
When local doctors and nurses needed more protective face shields to treat the surge of COVID-19 patients in early April, the UCR Library’s Creat’R Lab rose to the task. Over the last four weeks, Maker Services Coordinator Ray Gonzalez has been 3D printing parts for face shields around the clock. Each piece took between two...
Join us in creating a living history archive documenting the response of the UCR community to COVID-19. Andrea Hoff's primary role as the University Archivist is to document the history of UCR, including current events. To that end, she has issued a broad call for materials and created an online form, which UCR community members...
The Library is online and ready to help you! Despite the closure of the physical campus buildings, the UCR Library staff remain ready to support UC Riverside students, faculty, and researchers during our first-ever all virtual quarter. The majority of library services such as Interlibrary Loan (ILL), course reserves, teaching and research support, workshops, consultations...
Curious about how to find, analyze, and use archival materials from your laptop or computer? Want to learn more about digital archival resources at UCR and beyond? Starting on Tuesday, April 29, staff from the UCR Library's Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) department will offer Virtual Office Hours twice each week until Thursday, June...
Since mid-March 2020, the world has changed in ways that none of us could have predicted. I wanted to share with you some things the UCR Library is doing to help UCR not only survive the COVID-19 closure, but to thrive. Late afternoon on Friday, March 13, we got the County of Riverside Public Health...
Need a book for your research, but can't physically get it from the UCR Library buildings due to the COVID-19 closure? We have a solution! Until Sept. 7, 2021, UCR faculty, researchers and students can get many of the books they need online through the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS), which grants lawful access...
Despite the closure of the physical campus buildings, the UCR Library staff remain ready to support UC Riverside students, faculty, and researchers during our first-ever all virtual quarter. What does this mean for you? The majority of library services such as Interlibrary Loan (ILL), course reserves, teaching and research support,, workshops, consultations, and other public...
The UCR Library is pleased to announce the following recent resource acquisitions: Civil War Primary Resource Documents Civil War Primary Source Documents from The New-York Historical Society contains unique manuscript material chronicling all aspects of the American Civil War from warfare on land, at sea, in hospitals and prison camps, and reactions and impressions of the...
We are pleased to announce that Rachel Starry has joined the UCR Library as our Digital Scholarship Librarian, effective April 6. Rachel earned her B.A. in Classical Civilization from the University of Richmond, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College. Most recently, Rachel served as the CLIR...