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...
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...