The fourth annual GIS Day at UC Riverside was held on the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 14 in the Orbach Science Library. 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. “It was great to see students from several...
We are delighted to announce that Mary Anne Eliazo joined the UCR Library as our Infrastructure Systems Engineer, effective November 12, 2019. Mary Anne will be located in Cyberinfrastructure team office on the first floor of Orbach Library, reporting to Dan Szilagyi, the Manager of Cyberinfrastructure. Mary Anne earned her BS in Business Administration and...
The UCR Library is undergoing a formal review of its programs by a visiting team of University Librarians. As part of the review process, the visiting team would like to meet with a group of UCR graduate and undergraduate students to get their perspectives on how well the UCR Library meets their needs. We invite...
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. 14, with other related events leading up to it. GIS Day, first established in 1999, provides an international forum for users of geographic information...
November 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of the naming of the Orbach Science Library after former UCR Chancellor Raymond L. Orbach. When it was opened in 1998, the Science Library was the first new library building at UC Riverside in over 25 years. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1934, Raymond L. Orbach is a...
On Saturday, Oct. 26, supporters of the UCR Library's Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy gathered to celebrate the collection's 50th anniversary. The Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy is one of the world's largest, richest, and deepest collections of science fiction, fantasy, horror, utopian literature and related genres. The collection originated with...
The UCR Library is delighted to announce that Jernine McBride has joined the library as our Associate Director of Development, effective Nov. 4, 2019. Her office will be located in the Administration Suite on the first floor of the Rivera Library. She will report to Clyde Derrick, the Assistant Dean of Development for CHASS and...
The UCR Library is delighted to announce that effective Oct. 21, Ashley Coyne joined the UCR Library as an Access Services Desk Assistant. Ashley’s office is located in Circulation / Reserves on the first floor of Rivera Library. She will report to Leslie Settle, Access Services Desk Coordinator. Ashley earned her BA in Literature and...
This year, the Provost's office will coordinate several external reviews of important programs and units at UC Riverside. The first of these is one that is core to our mission as a research university: the UCR Library. As part of the external review, the Provost's Office has worked with the library to develop a survey...
The University of California, Riverside Library will host Open Access Week 2019, as part of the global event called International Open Access Week. The event series will kick off on Monday, Oct. 21, with workshops held each afternoon, Monday through Thursday in the Orbach Library, Room 122. “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge" is...
Join us as we celebrate these recent achievements by the following UCR Library employees. Dan Szilagyi, Manager of Cyberinfrastructure recently completed the UC Information Technology Leadership Academy (UCITLA), taught by faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. UCITLA is an intensive learning experience that consisted of two three-day sessions in February and May...
The UCR Library has a new resource called PrepSTEP, a highly-acclaimed eLearning solution by EBSCO LearningExpress that provides interactive tutorials, practice tests, and more. It includes a full suite of dynamic eLearning resources that support the lives of students through academic success and preparation for today’s workplace. PrepSTEP includes: Practice tests for graduate admissions exams...
Academy Award winning English actor and director Sir Lawrence Olivier once said, “You’re only as good as your last job.” The same could be said of the competitive world of higher education, in which faculty and researchers spend years building their professional reputation so that they have better opportunities, including awards, tenure and promotion. But...
Fall quarter has just begun, but there were some important developments this summer regarding access to and publishing in scholarly journals. Here are the most important things to know: Elsevier discontinued UC’s access to 2019 articles, but the UCR Library is here to help Following a breakdown in contract negotiations between the University of California...
The UCR Library staff experimented with crowdsourcing to describe a collection of 50 Arabic manuscript leaves and facilitate their electronic discovery. At two events called “Hivemind,” the library hosted more than 50 UC Riverside community members with a knowledge of Arabic and/or the Quran. At the first event in May 2018, attendees helped to identify...
Graduate and undergraduate students who use GIS (geographic information systems) and remote sensing are invited to enter a GIS Day poster contest sponsored by UCR Library and campus partners. GIS Day provides an opportunity for people to learn about geography and the uses of GIS. This year, UCR is observing GIS Day on Thursday, Nov...
The UCR Library team has been busy all summer long, moving departments and collections to prepare for fall quarter 2019. Here is a summary of what has changed since spring quarter: In July, Elsevier suspended direct access to articles published in 2019 for the University of Calfornia. This article contains more details about who is...
The open access agreement between Cambridge University Press and the University of California is now ready for author submissions. The agreement is a 3-year pilot that includes both access to read Cambridge journals and for open access of UC research publications. The Cambridge University Press author submission system that allows UC Faculty Authors to register...
In order to provide our Faculty and students with an up-to-date progressive library collections discovery interface, the UCR Library made a major transition to a new catalog interface last year. While this new interface provides us with a robust system, including opportunities for innovative features in the future, there are a couple of known issues...
The UCR Library is pleased to announce that Sandy Enriquez has joined our team as the Special Collections Public Services, Outreach & Community Engagement Librarian. She will be reporting to Cherry Williams, Director of Distinctive Collections. Sandy earned her MA in Latin American Studies at New York University and her MLIS from Long Island University...