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...
Special Collections & University Archives employees 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 this list to see if there are any items...
At all-staff meetings held in summer quarter 2019, Library Human Resources acknowledged four UCR Library employees for their outstanding contributions. These team members became the sixth 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...
After many years in the basement of the Arts Building, the Music Library materials and services will be relocated to the Tomás Rivera Library in mid-September. All materials (music scores, audio CDs and LPs) will be relocated to the Rivera Library during the week of Sept. 9 - 13. The Music Library will close its...
We are delighted to announce that Ray Gonzalez joined the UCR Library on Thursday, August 15 as our Maker Services Coordinator. Ray’s office will be located in room 123 on the first floor of Orbach Library, reporting to Brianna Marshall, the Director of Research Services. Ray earned his B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from...
The Sherman Indian Museum digitization project now has more than 9,000 items available online through Calisphere; at the completion of the project, this figure will surpass 13,000. The Sherman Indian Museum holds the archives of the Sherman Indian High School, an off-reservation boarding high school for Native Americans, with students from grades 9 through 12...
Supporting the UCR Library just became a lot easier. Recently, the library published an updated giving site, Support the Library, Transform the World, in collaboration with University Advancement. The revised design prominently features the library's top six donation categories, and the development funds that tie directly to them: Student Success Research Excellence Creativity & Entrepreneurship...
Effective July 29, 2019, the UCR Library is pleased to announce that Raul Aguilera has accepted a new position as Access Services Assistant (Evenings). Raul will be located in Circulation/Course Reserves on the first floor of the Rivera Library, reporting to Chuck Stephenson, Rivera Night and Billing Coordinator. Most recently, Raul served as the .75...
TO: UC Riverside Academic Community FROM: Steven Mandeville-Gamble, University Librarian RE: Elsevier access suspended DATE: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January, but until now the publisher continued to allow access to 2019 articles via ScienceDirect. As of today, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 , UC’s...
TO: UCR Academic Community FROM: Steven Mandeville-Gamble University Librarian RE: Imminent change to Elsevier access DATE: July 1, 2019 The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January but, so far, the publisher has continued to provide access to new articles via ScienceDirect. Although Elsevier has not yet provided us with...
The Geospatial Resources section is now available on the first floor of Orbach Library. This section contains maps and atlases that were formerly housed in the Map Collection on the ground floor, including computers with licensed GIS software, California regional materials, light table, aerial photos, and more. Other items are now available by request through...
The end of each academic year brings many goodbyes, both farewells to graduating students and to members of our career staff who retired in 2019. We would like to recognize and celebrate the following UCR Library colleagues, who shared some of their UCR history with us: Sharla Desens Music Library Manager Sharla Desens started as...
The topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are critical to our campus at UC Riverside. On April 10, 2018, the UCR Library’s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (CODEI) held a kickoff event to encourage library staff to start thinking about DEI issues in their everyday work, led by guest expert Mark Puente, Director...
The UCR Library is delighted to announce that Andrea Hoff joined our team on June 17, 2019 as the University Archivist. Andrea will be located in Special Collections and University Archives, on the fourth floor of Rivera Library, reporting to Cherry Williams, the Director of Distinctive Collections. Andrea earned her BA in Art History from...
Melvyl’s long-awaited switch to WorldCat Discovery, the Online Computer Library Center’s ( OCLC) newer discovery user interface, launched on Monday, June 17, 2019. Melvyl is the discovery platform for the University of California libraries. As the world's largest library catalog, WorldCat helps users find items in libraries close to them and makes the UCR Library’s...