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...
UCR Library is pleased to announce that Tiffany Moxham is appointed as our Assistant University Librarian for Collections, effective January 1, 2018. Moxham, most recently the UCR Library’s Coordinator of Medical Library Services, has fourteen years’ experience working in academic and research libraries in North America, including ten years’ experience as a supervisor and manager...
The UCR Library will close to the public at 11:30 am on Wednesday, December 20, 2017 for a library event. This closure affects all three facilities (Rivera Library, Orbach Library, and the Music Library). Regular service hours will resume on the morning of Thursday, December 21. Please refer to our website’s hours page for the...
Empathy and the power of choice: those are two things that the Footsteps to You – Chattel Slavery exhibition hopes to inspire. Footsteps to You – Chattel Slavery will open on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018 in Special Collections and University Archives, located on the fourth floor of Tomás Rivera Library. Curated by Jordan Brown, Class...
The UCR Library facilities will adopt an intersession schedule starting on Saturday, December 16, 2017. During intersession (from December 16 to December 22), library hours will be as follows: Tomás Rivera Library and Orbach Science Library Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Saturday: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sunday: closed Special Collections &...
UCR Library’s Director of Research Services Brianna Marshall has released her first book, The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving. Editor Marshall and a team of expert contributors break down archival concepts and best practices into teachable solutions for digitally archiving everyday projects. This book could serve anyone from a researcher who needs to organize...
The UCR Library is pleased to announce that Robin M. Katz has assumed her new responsibilities as the Primary Source Literacy Librarian for Special Collections and University Archives. This change reflects the continued awareness and emphasis within the world of special collections and archives of the increasing importance of primary source literacy. As noted in...
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 December in 4 to Explore: 1932 Diary December resolutions by a young woman John Donne 1633 first edition of the collected poems Mexican...
It’s hard to believe that fall quarter 2017 is drawing to a close, but suddenly Finals Week is only days away. UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere to help our students cope with the stress of final exams. This is why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief event series at the...
Digitization Project Coordinator Charlotte Dominguez grew up hearing her father exclaim, “There’s Sherman!” whenever they drove past the Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, CA. Little did she know that one day, she would be part of a monumental, two-year collaborative project between the Sherman Indian Museum and UCR Library’s Inland Empire Memories initiative, that...
As GIS Day 2017 concluded on the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 15, Geospatial Information Librarian Janet Reyes reflected on a successful community event at UC Riverside to celebrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day and Geography Awareness Week. “What I found most gratifying about the day was seeing all the interactions and networking taking place, between...
All UCR Library facilities will be closed on Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Both Rivera Library and Orbach Library will be open on Saturday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and on Sunday from 1:00 PM to 12:00 AM. The Music Library will remain closed from Thursday...
On Nov. 2-4, several UCR Library staff members contributed programs and poster sessions for the California Libraries Association (CLA) Annual Conference in Riverside, CA. The 2017 conference theme was, “ New Worlds Emerge.” Maker Services Librarian Krista Ivy, Open Research Librarian Michele Potter, and Data Librarian Kat Koziar gave a presentation session called From Zero...
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 November in 4 to Explore: I'isniyatam (Designs) A self-published 1977 Cahuilla word book Thanksgiving Day A Cuban artist's book of Carvajal Marrer's poem...
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...
For the past 10 years, the City of Riverside has debated whether to build a new main library or to renovate the library’s existing building. One of our UCR Library team members was involved in this landmark decision in October 2017. Early Experience Teaching Librarian Michael Yonezawa has also served for the past year as...
Moises Martinez Cortez is a fourth-year Global Studies major who has worked as a Front Desk Assistant at UCR Library since fall quarter of his freshman year. He grew up in the Lynwood – Downey area of Los Angles as the youngest of six children, raised by a single mother who immigrated from Nayarit, along...
Change is in the air as UCR Library leaders work to transform the Library into a library of the future. Since University Librarian Steve Mandeville-Gamble started at UCR in 2013, he has focused on developing strategies to support and accelerate the research and teaching programs on campus. One of the objectives in the Library’s Strategic...