RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — In the past year, nearly 1,300 aspiring entrepreneurs and creative types have occupied a new makerspace at the University of California, Riverside. The space is UCR’s Creat’R Lab, set to celebrate its first Anniversary Showcase on Thursday, May 3 in the Orbach Science Library. Users of the Creat’R Lab have...
The library catalog will undergo a significant transformation this July when the UCR Library deploys an enhanced search tool with a modern, mobile-responsive visual display. Designed by Ex Libris, the search tool will provide a streamlined user experience (UX) with improved access to library materials and intuitive ways for students, faculty and researchers to discover...
National Library Week will be observed April 8-14, 2018 with the theme, "Libraries Lead." The 2018 National Library Week celebration will mark the 60th anniversary of the event which is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA). On Tuesday, April 10, in honor of National Library Workers Day, UCR Library invites UC Riverside students, faculty...
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 April in 4 to Explore: UCR photographs Student social events from the 1950s Mission Inn menus See what was served in the 1910s...
When the Creat’R Lab first opened its doors in April 2017, it was touted as a space for creative collaboration between students and faculty from all different disciplines. Members of UCR’s student Cosplay Brigade have spent the past year doing precisely that as they've been preparing for the second annual Geek On event, which will...
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...
This past quarter, Public Services Assistant Zayda Delgado received word that she had received a scholarship from the National Endowment for the Humanities-Global Book Histories Initiative (NEH-GBHI) to attend Rare Book School at Amherst College during summer 2018. Rare Book School (RBS) is an independent institute housed at the University of Virginia that provides continuing...
On Feb. 27 - 28, 2018, the UC Riverside Library hosted more than 140 guests from all ten UC campuses and the California Digital Library (CDL) at the inaugural University of California Digital Library Forum (UC DLFx). This was one of the first DLFx events – small, regional community-building events for Digital Library Federation (DLF)...
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 March in 4 to Explore: Moonshot An edited volume of indigenous comics Westways travel magazine A 1973 cover article on visting Riverside, CA...
It’s hard to believe that winter quarter 2018 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...
At all-staff meetings held on February 21 and 22, Library Human Resources acknowledged two UCR Library employees for their outstanding contributions. Director of Teaching and Learning Dani Cook and Geospatial Information Librarian Janet Reyes became the first two UCR Library team members to be recognized through the KUDOS program. Under the KUDOS program, non-probationary staff...
On Feb. 5, a team of library employees received a UCR Healthy Campus Initiative grant for a project proposal, #puppylove: a feasibility study for an on-site, year-round animal therapy program for the UCR campus community. Their project will conduct a year-long feasibility study to determine whether creating an on-site, year-round therapy dog service at UC...
February 2, 2018 marked the first time that the UCR Library was invited to participate in the “Find a Job on Campus Fair” presented by UC Riverside’s on-campus Career Center. As the second-largest student employer on campus, library representatives were thrilled about the opportunity to meet with students who might be interested in joining the...
Currently an institutional archivist for The J. Paul Getty Trust, the world's largest cultural and philanthropic organization dedicated to the visual arts, class of ’08 alumna Sara Seltzer began her career as a UCR Library student employee in Special Collections and University Archives. “I’ll never forget when I got that job,” Seltzer said. “I came...
Entrepreneur-in-residence and UC Riverside instructor Jay Gilberg has enjoyed using the Creat’R Lab to mentor aspiring innovators who are part of the NSF I-Corps Startups for Innovators Program at UCR. “I love helping people to achieve their dreams by creating a business,” Gilberg explained. “It’s important to nurture entrepreneurship in a university setting. The average...
Talking with the presenters of Footsteps to You: Chattel Slavery, the visiting exhibition currently in the UC Riverside Special Collections department, revealed some noteworthy facts about Black History and the City of Riverside. Riverside had many interesting connections to Black history at the turn of the last century, according to Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds, Publisher of...
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 February in 4 to Explore: A Diction An odd-shaped artist's book by Heather Weston Sand Samples Collected to study sand d isplacement and...
Sam Tang is a class of 2018 Mechanical Engineering major who has worked for the past four years as student employee for the UCR Library’s Cyberinfrastructure department. This position requires Tang to maintain computers and peripherals for library users and to help staff solve problems connecting to email, printer malfunctions, and other troubleshooting issues. “It’s...
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...
Rancho Mirage based novelist Michael Craft has generously donated his papers and professional archive to the UCR Library’s Special Collections department. Craft has published 14 novels , including the highly acclaimed Mark Manning mystery series, three of which were honored as finalists for the Gay Men’s Mystery genre by the Lambda Literary Awards ( Name...