Born in 1954 at March Air Force Base, Riverside native Craig “Spike” Decker has been a hustler and natural promoter for as long as he can remember. Decker and a childhood friend named Gerald once made up a carnival for neighborhood kids. “We’d ride around on our bicycles and promote it,” he explained. “We’d make...

The UCR Library wishes to congratulate Deputy University Librarian Ann Frenkel on her upcoming retirement in June 2021. In 2006, Ann Frenkel joined the UCR Library as the Assistant University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services (later promoted to Associate University Librarian), along with her husband, Gwido Zlatkes, who became a librarian first in Special...

UC Library Search will replace Melvyl on July 27, 2021. What do you need to do to prepare for this change? How can you learn how to use UC Library Search? UC Library Search is user-friendly and will strongly resemble the discovery portal you have been using for the last three years. Think of it...

The UCR Library has recently acquired access to the digital archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS). This archive completes the library’s collection of digital archives from Wiley, which includes the New York Academy of Sciences, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the Royal College of Physicians, and...

Please be advised that the UCR Library catalog will be down over the Memorial Day weekend, from May 29 to 30, 2021, for data migration. Please expect a system downtime of up to 24 hours, from Saturday, May 29 at 6:00 p.m. to Sunday, May 30 at 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). During this temporary outage...

As one of the largest public university systems in the world, the University of California holds a vast collection of resources in its libraries. However, until now, each campus library used its own catalog, making it difficult for patrons to find items held at other campuses without using a separate search tool. Beginning July 27...

Sandy Enriquez, Special Collections Public Services, Outreach & Community Engagement Librarian, was awarded a highly competitive fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program will only invite 45 fellows over a six-year period, with aims to advance multicultural collections through innovative and inclusive curatorial practice and leadership among fellows who either identify with diverse...

On Monday, Mar. 29, library employees gathered virtually to celebrate the life and enduring contributions of Christina Cicchetti, a UCR librarian for the past 14 years, most recently the Social Sciences Teaching Librarian. Christina passed away on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021 from complications related to COVID-19. In 2007, Christina joined the UCR Library as an...

Overdrive is an e-book platform that offers UCR Library patrons access to popular titles – the sort of books you might find in your local public library. Our growing collection from Overdrive includes leisure reading, children’s books, and science fiction and fantasy titles. We are especially excited to offer many of these e-books as part...

Performing arts students and faculty at UCR can now access more than 1,200 resources thanks to the library’s new subscription to DigitalTheatre+. The world’s leading platform for digital performing arts, Digital Theatre+ features videos, study guides, teaching tools, and reference and research materials including backstage insights, practitioner interviews, written analysis, and more than 450 productions...

After more than two years of negotiations, this morning the University of California announced a transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This successful outcome is the result of UC’s faculty, librarians and university leadership coming together to stand firm on our goals of making UC research freely available to all...

Effective March 10, 2021, UC authors can make their research freely available for anyone to read through three new transformative open access publishing agreements with The Royal Society journals, Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), and The Company of Biologists (CoB). These new, cost-neutral agreements will apply retrospectively to articles accepted after January 1, 2021 and will...

UC Library Search will replace Melvyl as the UC-wide library discovery tool on July 27, 2021. It will be directly accessible from the local UCR Library website. Melvyl debuted in 1981, before most of our current students (and some faculty) were born. Melvyl revolutionized the UC Library system, allowing researchers to find books at other...

The UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere for our students, as final exams can breed a lot of stress -- not to mention the added pressures and isolation they experience during a pandemic. This is the reason why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief (FWSR) event series: to serve and support...

From Feb. 8 - 11, 2021, the inaugural UC Love Data Week offered training on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation to approximately 700 members of the University of California community. Kat Koziar, Data Librarian, represented UC Riverside in a collaborative effort across the ten UC campuses and the California Digital Library (CDL) to...

Finding and borrowing resources from libraries across the UC system is about to get easier! On July 27, 2021, the libraries on all 10 University of California campuses will be connected through UC Library Search, a unified discovery and borrowing system. The enhanced features of UC Library Search will replace Melvyl as the UC-wide library...

When Class of 2019 alumnus Matthew Diep first enrolled at UC Riverside to double-major in accounting and public policy, becoming a children's book author was not on his to-do list. However, a missed opportunity in another campus department led him to apply for a student employee position at the UCR Library, which became the catalyst...

The Fujimoto Transcripts project has made a treasured library resource even more accessible to a global audience. The diaries of Japanese Americans, Toranosuke (George) Fujimoto and George Fujimoto Jr. constitute one of the most valuable and unique collections housed in the UCR Special Collections & University Archives. Toranosuke, born in 1882, kept a diary from...

The first-ever UC GIS Week was a resounding success thanks to the ingenuity and passionate support of the UCR community, according to Geospatial Information Librarian Janet Reyes. COVID-related event cancellations in 2020 inspired UCR to pivot from planning a UCR-only GIS Day event to participating in the inaugural UC GIS Week virtual conference. Reyes and...

On Jan. 21, UC Riverside professor Jennifer Doyle and internationally recognized artist Nao Bustamante will discuss the genesis of Bustamante’s multi-media exhibition, Soldadera. This virtual presentation will be the fourth installment of the UCR Library’s series, Faculty Profiles in Research, Art and Innovation. Dr. Romina Robles Ruvalcaba, assistant professor of history at UC Merced, will...