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. Items featured this month will tie in with the UCR Library's celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here's what you can...

The WEPA public printing system has been successfully implemented at the Orbach and Rivera Libraries, and the system has been adopted campuswide. With the successful implementation of WEPA public printing, the UCR Library's Cyberinfrastructure department began to decommission the legacy Pharos/Xerox Public Printing system at the end of fall quarter 2018. They estimate completion of...

We are delighted to announce that Natalie Moller will join the library in a new role on January 27, 2019 as our Distinctive Collections Cataloger. Natalie will be located in the Orbach Library, reporting to Jim Clark, Head of Database Management and Authority Control. Natalie will be transitioning from her current role as Collection Maintenance...

At the beginning of fall quarter 2018, University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble invited delegates from various local cultural heritage institutions to Orbach Library to discuss the Inland Empire Memories project. More than 20 groups attended the event, including representatives from the Riverside African American Historical Society, Sherman Indian High School Museum, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, San Bernardino...

At all-staff meetings held in fall quarter 2018, Library Human Resources acknowledged three UCR Library employees for their outstanding contributions. These team members became the fourth round of employees to be recognized through the KUDOS program. Under the KUDOS program, non-probationary staff and academic employees at the UCR Library can be nominated by a peer...

The University of California system is currently in negotiations to renew its contracts with some of the world’s largest for-profit commercial academic journal publishers, including Elsevier. University Librarian Steve Mandeville-Gamble will be giving a briefing for faculty regarding the status of these negotiations on Thursday, December 13, 2018, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in...

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 the UCR Library's newly processed archival and primary source collections. Check out the list below to see if there are any...

Two of our UC Riverside librarians were recently interviewed by C-SPAN as part of their 2018 "Cities Tour." C-SPAN interviewed JJ Jacobson, Jay Kay and Doris Klein Librarian for Science Fiction, in a Local Content Vehicles (LCV) “Cities Tour” segment looking at UCR’s Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy. C-SPAN also interviewed Jessica Geiser...

The results from UC Riverside's 2018 Day of Giving have been tallied and we're thrilled to report that, with your help, we raised $2,230 for the Creat'R Lab! Way to go, Highlanders! In case you missed it, here is one of the videos that we livestreamed from the Creat'R Lab on November 27, the Day...

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 event series at the end of fall, winter and spring quarters. These events give library employees an opportunity to get to know our students better...

On Tuesday, November 27 , UC Riverside will hold its 2018 online Day of Giving , and the UCR Library will be highlighting the Creat’R Lab Fund . This is a unique, online fundraising opportunity that lasts only 24 hours , and we will need all the help we can get to spread the word...

Dr. Juliette Levy will return to the UCR Library to take students on a third round of testing with her early-stage virtual reality prototype, “Che’s Village.” The prototype was built to amplify students' experience of studying Che Guevara's speech, "Social Ideals of the Rebel Army," which he delivered on January 27, 1959. The third round...

This month in 4 to Explore, your Special Collections librarians and archivists have selected four new items with an "engineering" theme and placed them on hold in the reading room. Here's what you can see this November in 4 to Explore: Riverside Sewage Report, 1916 Permits, maps, and more on city waste disposal Enrollment Projections...

On the morning of Friday, October 27, 2018, a gender and sexuality studies class built a special Day of the Dead altar on the first floor of Tomás Rivera Library. Students of GSST 138 (Gender and the Sex Trade) created a community altar for Dia de Los Muertos to honor the lives of sex workers...

A former UCR Library employee was recently named Library Director for the Riverside Public Library. From 2005-2007, Erin Christmas worked as a library assistant in collection maintenance at the UCR Science Library (now Orbach Science Library). “While working at UCR, I was inspired by the work the librarians and other library professionals did and decided...

We are delighted to announce that, on October 15, 2018, Sabrina Simmons will step into a new role at the UCR Library as our Interlibrary Loan Coordinator. Sabrina will be located in in the Rivera Library, reporting to Vincent Novoa, Head of Access Services. Sabrina will be transitioning from her current role as Access Services...

The University of California, Riverside Library and campus partners will host several events in celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day. This year, UCR will observe GIS Day on Thursday, Nov. 15. GIS Day, first established in 1999, provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are...

We are delighted to announce that Elisa Cortez joined the UCR Library on October 4, 2018 as our Medical Education and Clinical Outreach Librarian. Elisa will be located in in the Orbach Science Library, Room 134, reporting to Tiffany Moxham, AUL for Content and Discovery. Elisa earned her Master of Information and Library Studies (MILS)...

Many UCR alumni enjoy visiting campus – but it’s not always possible for them to make the trip. To remedy this, UC Riverside’s Office of Alumni Relations turned to the Creat’R Lab in the Orbach Library to help take a few campus landmarks on the road – specifically the Bell Tower, the UCR initials (by...

This month in 4 to Explore, your Special Collections librarians and archivists have selected four new items with a "back to school" theme and placed them on hold in the reading room. Here's what you can see this October in 4 to Explore: Campus Guide & Handbook, 1996-1997 Suggestions for 20+ years ago The Sproul...