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More News April 24, 2020

The Library is online and ready to help you!

Despite the closure of the physical campus buildings, the UCR Library staff remain ready to support UC Riverside students, faculty, and researchers during our first-ever all virtual quarter.

The majority of library services such as Interlibrary Loan (ILL), course reserves, teaching and research support, workshops, consultations, and other public services are now functioning under a remote operating model.

Here is a list of available services for UCR faculty, students and staff during this closure:

Getting Help

• When in doubt, start by asking a librarian for help

Books, Journals, and Databases

• More than 50% of print books from all UC campuses are now available online through the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service: instructions here.
• Online access to textbooks, eBooks, journal articles, videos, and music is available. See the guide to Expanded/Free Access for links and more information.
• Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request an electronic copy of a journal article or other online resource you cannot find elsewhere. We are unable to receive physical items. We are processing ILLs as quickly as possible, but due closures at other libraries, delays are possible.

Course Reserves and Streaming

• Course Reserves is operational, although we cannot put physical material on reserve. We work to obtain electronic access when available. Contact the Collection Strategists to help identify alternate solutions for material not available electronically.
• Media (films) streaming is operational, although we cannot stream any physical copies that have not been previously digitized. For available online video and music, see the Expanded/Free Access guide.

Support for Class Instruction (Instructors)

• Please fill out a Library Instruction Request form to schedule a library instruction session. We anticipate being able to fully support online classes, both synchronously and asynchronously, including:
  • brief video tutorials
  • virtual office hours for research assignments
  • collaboratively designing assignments and assessments for remote learners
  • some options for sessions utilizing primary materials from Special Collections and University Archives
  • support for iLearn, in conjunction with XCITE

Support for Research and Assignments

• Fill out this form to schedule a consultation with a librarian. Someone will respond to you by the end of the next business day. We will meet with you via Zoom or email.
• Special Collections virtual office hours on Tuesdays, 10 - 11 a.m., and Thursdays, 2 - 3 p.m.
• Spring quarter research workshops will be hosted online.

Questions about library circulation, due dates, fines, etc.

Email questions to library_circulation@ucr.edu. During the closure we are extending due dates and suspending recalls, paging, and billing to the fullest extent possible. Because some automated billing (such as Interlibrary Loan) may happen that is outside of our control, please contact us with any questions or concerns.

More News November 17, 2017

As GIS Day 2017 concluded on the afternoon of Wednesday, Nov. 15, 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.

“What I found most gratifying about the day was seeing all the interactions and networking taking place, between and among UCR community members and our off-campus guests,” Reyes commented. Many people interacted with the poster contestants as they explained their entries, and visited the information tables outside Rivera Library to talk with representatives from UCR Extension and Esri.

The first place winner in the poster contest was Dion Kucera (above, center) for his poster on Decadal resistance and resilience of the Los Angeles urban forest in response to drought and temperature stress. Second place went to Peter Ibsen (above, right), whose poster depicted regional and local climate drivers on the NDVI~Air Temperature relationship in urban areas. Third place was awarded to Brianna Chew (above, left) for her StoryMap on Academic Success Factors in K-12 Education: a quantitative analysis.

Presentations highlighted both academic and practical applications of GIS to advance work and research, with topics including the link between environmental features and behavioral health, climate change and biodiversity, looking at problems from a spatial perspective, the use of GIS in crime analysis, and more.

Patty Spurlock, Esri Human Resources Manager, shared information about careers in GIS.

“GIS Day went very well,” Reyes said. “The success was due to the collaboration of the Planning Committee, in addition to support from departments throughout the Library.”

Related events spanned multiple days, including a craft workshop on Nov. 14 sponsored by the Creat’R Lab, where students made map-themed ornaments; and a talk on Nov. 16 by Manuel Urrizola, Head of Metadata and Technical Services, titled “Is California an Island?” Urrizola brought archival maps from his personal collection, with supplementary materials provided by UCR Library’s Special Collections and University Archives.

“We tried several new things this year and will build on our experiences in planning for next year,” Reyes said.

GIS Day 2017 was co-sponsored by the UCR Library, the Center for Conservation Biology, the Departments of Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and Psychology, UCR Extension, and Capital Asset Strategies. The GIS Day Planning Committee included Hoori Ajami, Jennifer Campbell, Robert Johnson, Karen Jordan, and Paige Trubenstein, with Reyes as committee chair.

More News November 10, 2017

On Nov. 2-4, several UCR Library staff members contributed programs and poster sessions for the California Libraries Association (CLA) Annual Conference in Riverside, CA. The 2017 conference theme was, “New Worlds Emerge.”

Maker Services Librarian Krista Ivy, Open Research Librarian Michele Potter, and Data Librarian Kat Koziar gave a presentation session called From Zero to Makerspace: The UC Riverside Creat’R Lab Story. “It was well attended, and the audience was engaged with what we presented,” Koziar said.

Data Librarian Kat Koziar, Special Collections Public Services Assistant Zayda Delgado, Head of Preservation Services Patricia Smith-Hunt, Preservation Assistant Sara Stilley, and Director of Distinctive Collections Cherry Williams collaborated on a poster presentation titled, New Technologies, New Worlds. The poster showed the evolution of books across a timeline from 2500 BCE to present day, highlighting the most significant inventions used to create, package, disseminate, and access information.

“We took several items from our teaching collection and people who stopped by got to see and touch the transformative technologies our poster highlighted,” Delgado said. “Conference attendees really enjoyed the hands-on experience.”

Social Sciences Teaching Librarian Christina Cicchetti gave a poster presentation called Promoting School Readiness Through Diverse Children’s Books, which she prepared in collaboration with Dr. Ashaunta Anderson, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the UCR School of Medicine and Principal Investigator for the Cultural Pride Reinforcement for Early School Readiness research project; Sharon Rushing, PhD candidate in the UCR Department of Anthropology; and Dr. Annette Goldsmith, Lecturer at the University of Washington Information School.

“The study will distribute books to children during well-child visits to their pediatrician,” explained Cicchetti, who serves with Goldsmith on a community advisory board that helped to select books used in the study and prepared an informational handout for parents.

University Programs Teaching Librarian Judy Lee organized and led a Riverside Asian American Walking Tour on Sunday, Nov. 5, after the CLA Conference concluded.

Carla Arbagey, Collection Strategist for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) led a tour of the UCR Library for attendees from the CLA conference.

“I had a lot of fun showing off our libraries and our campus,” Arbagey said. “Of course, the highlight of the tour was our visit to Special Collections and University Archives, and everyone was excited to see the home of the Eaton Collection.” Katz shared program goals and findings for 4 to Explore, along with the featured items from the current and prior months.

When showing Project Bi Nary by Steven McCarthy (nicknamed the “pillow book” by library staff), a recent acquisition from the September road show with Vamp & Tramp Artists Booksellers, Arbagey had an a-ha! moment: “I saw how one item from our collection can show how the seemingly disparate departments in our library are actually very connected.” The tour group first encountered it when they met with Patricia Smith-Hunt in Preservation, who explained how Preservation creates custom-made, acid free boxes to store special collections items.

Then in Special Collections, Katz explained that she had suggested the book as a purchase because it could be featured as part of a Creat'R Lab event on crafting and artists' books.

“So, you can see how our tour, which went from the Creat'R Lab to Preservation to SCUA, could be connected by this single (and very cool) book!” Arbagey concluded.

More News October 28, 2019

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 personal library of Dr. J. Lloyd Eaton, consisting of about 7,500 hardback editions of science fiction, fantasy and horror from the Nineteenth to the mid-Twentieth centuries, which was acquired by the UCR Library in 1969.

“The Library team realized that the 50th anniversary of the Eaton Collection would be an ideal opportunity to reach out to all our Eaton stakeholders and show our appreciation for their support,” Derrick said. “We welcomed distinguished authors whose work resides in this collection, and one noted science fiction scholar came from as far away as the Caribbean to participate.”

University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble greeted guests as they arrived at Rivera Library, along with Assistant University Librarian for Content and Discovery Tiffany Moxham, Director of Distinctive Collections Cherry Williams, Special Collections Processing Archivist Andrew Lippert, Associate Director of Development Jernine McBride, and Senior Director of Development Clyde Derrick.

Mandeville-Gamble gave welcoming remarks, followed by Interim Provost Thomas M. Smith.

The program featured a panel discussion on "Graduate Research and the Eaton Collection at UCR," moderated by Dr. Sherryl Vint, professor of Media and Cultural Studies. Speakers included UC Riverside graduate students Taylor Evans, Brandy Lewis and Josh Pearson.

Pearson noted the fanzines, in particular. “One of the things that really struck me is that the practices and modes of engagement that were fostered in Science Fiction -- the forms of fandom, the forms of community developed in the kinds of fanzines that are enshrined upstairs in the Eaton -- have come to permeate not only American culture in general, but particularly American youth culture,” he explained. “Some of the most important ways that my students are making meaning in the world with Science Fictional images have their origin in some of the things that are collected upstairs. Returning to those and thinking hard about them is a way of thinking hard about some of the most crucial questions that we’re thinking about as educators right now.”

Festivities concluded with Williams and Lippert taking guests on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Eaton Collection in the Special Collections and University Archives department, located on the fourth floor of Rivera Library.

If you are a UCR alumni or community stakeholders who enjoys science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other types of speculative fiction, please consider supporting the Eaton Science Fiction and Fantasy Fund. To learn more, please contact Jernine McBride Williams, Associate Director of Development for the UCR Library.

More News February 01, 2024

R’Voices in the Library Exhibition
Call for Submissions — Call closes on April 5, 2024

Library Contact: Carrie Cruce, Student Success and Engagement Librarian, carrie.cruce@ucr.edu.

The UCR Library is excited to extend an invitation to all students to participate in our inaugural exhibition dedicated to showcasing the experiences of first-generation students. Our goal is to center students as knowledge creators by highlighting their diverse creative expressions. We welcome submissions in various formats, including but not limited to painting, photography, short stories, poetry, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, and other forms of arts and crafts. 

While this year's exhibition does not have a specific theme, we request that submissions are representative of the distinctive journey of first-generation students. We invite you to join us in co-creating a welcoming, engaging, and thought-provoking exhibition space within the library. Submit your creative work today and help us celebrate the unique skills, strengths, and experiences of first-generation students.

Submission Guidelines

To Apply

• Read the submission guidelines.
• Fill out and submit the online Submission Form.
• Drop off your submission.
• Submissions may be dropped off at the InfoDesk located at the Library Support/IT Support Desk in the Rivera Library between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
• All submissions require an Intake Form. You may print out a form here or forms are available at the drop off point in Rivera Library.
• !!! Submissions will not be accepted without an Intake Form!!!

Please feel free to contact Carrie Cruce, Student Success and Engagement Librarian at carrie.cruce@ucr.edu with any questions prior to submission.

Schedule

• Call for Submissions opens: February 5, 2024
• Call for Submissions closes: April 5, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2024
• Exhibition Dates: April 26, 2024 through June 7, 2024
• Materials return/Pick up: June 10, 2024 through June 14, 2024

Exhibition Requirements

• All submissions are subject to review. Submission does not guarantee acceptance.
• Submission content or theme should represent First-Generation student experience.
• Submissions must adhere to the UCR Principles of Community.
• Submissions may include a wide range of media including painting, photography, short stories, poetry, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, and other forms of arts and crafts.
  • Music cannot be accepted at this time. Although songs or music in written format may be accepted.
• Submissions should not exceed 4’ x 4’ dimensions.
• All submissions are due by March 8, 2024 at 5 p.m.
• All submissions must be submitted with a completed Intake Form.
• By submitting to the exhibition, if accepted, you commit to participating for the entire exhibition from April 26, 2024 through June 7, 2024.
• If accepted, you may opt in or opt out of the digital exhibition component.
• All submissions must be picked up by June 14, 2024.

Additional Information

• The physical exhibition will take place on the first floor of Rivera Library from April 26, 2024 through June 7, 2024. 
• An exhibition reception will be held at Rivera Library on April 30, 2024 from 5 to 7 p.m. Information about the reception will be provided to all students with accepted submissions.
• Qualifying submissions may be chosen to be included in the Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). Students with qualifying submissions may choose to donate or not to donate their submission to SCUA for preservation and future study. (Donation is completely voluntary and not required).
• UCR Library and staff are not responsible for potential damage incurred or theft during the exhibition. UCR Library and staff will take all reasonable precautionary measures to prevent damage and theft.
• Accepted submissions may be photographed as part of the exhibition and these images may be shared on UCR Library's social media platforms for promotional purposes related to the exhibition or for future initiatives.