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New Special Collections Hours for Summer 2017
Due to the staffing challenges in Special Collections and University Archives, service hours will be changing effective Monday, July 31, 2017.
Summer HoursJuly 31– September 22, 2017 |
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Monday - Friday 9:00 am – 11:00 am: By appointment only to current UCR faculty, staff, and enrolled students* 11:00 am – 4:00 pm: Open to the general public |
Academic Year HoursSeptember 25, 2017 – June 15, 2018 |
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Monday - Friday 9:00 am – 11:00 am: By appointment only to current UCR faculty, staff, and enrolled students* 11:00 am – 4:00 pm: Open to the general public |
*Appointments are pending staff and space availability. To request an appointment, email specialcollections@ucr.edu
Please reach out to the public services team (specialcollections@ucr.edu) with any questions.
New archival collections available for fall quarter 2017
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 that fit your research area, or share with a friend!
Below you'll find brief descriptions and links to the finding aids or collection guides for each new collection. To use any of these materials, simply click the "Request Items" button at the top to submit a request, and log in with our Special Collections Request System. For more on conducting research in Special Collections, see this page.
SCUA is open to the public on weekdays from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm. Check here for closures or other changes to our regular hours.
For questions, email specialcollections@ucr.edu.
Newly Processed Collections – Fall 2017
1.92 linear ft. (2 boxes)
The collection contains photographs, notes, articles, and other materials from explorer Edna R. Webster and her daughter Marjorie Webster. The majority of materials in the collection relate to Edna's exploration and study of Mayan ruins on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, and Marjorie's interest in Atlantis and its possible connection to Mexico.
2.54 linear ft. (5 boxes)
This collection consists of the papers of author Jean Paiva, including manuscript drafts, notes, research, and short stories. Materials in the collection also include literary contracts, earnings statements, and correspondence between Paiva and other authors, editors and literary figures.
0.83 linear ft. (2 boxes)
The collection consists of materials relating to the political career of John Phillips, who served as a California state legislator from 1932-1942, then as a member of the House of Representatives from 1943-1947. Items in the collection include correspondence, reports, pamphlets, and other documents related to Phillips work and research on topics like government food subsidies, universal military training, and the Republican Party platform.
1.42 linear ft. (2 boxes)
The Sunkist Growers Inc. records consists mostly of agreements between various growers and the Fruit Growers Supply Company and the Exchange By-Products Company, which were parts of the organization that provided wholesale supplies and developed markets for citrus by-products like oil and citric acid. The collection also includes brochures, photographs, and a photo album including research information from the University of California Citrus Experiment Station.
1.46 linear ft. (2 boxes)
This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Betty Clark Moore, a biologist and former research associate at UC Riverside. Materials in the collection include correspondence, photographs, research notes, and scientific publications written by Moore and others.
11.5 linear ft. (20 boxes)
This collection contains correspondence, notes, and other material from J. Lloyd Eaton, a physician and book collector whose collection of science fiction, fantasy, and horror publications formed the foundation of the Eaton Science Fiction & Fantasy Collection at UC Riverside. Included in his papers are the index card catalogs Eaton kept documenting his collection, which include his notes on many of the works.
0.42 linear ft. (1 box)
This collection consists of photographs and postcards from John W. Dady, depicting various Native American tribes and ranches in the Midwest and California during the early 20th century.
0.23 linear ft. (1 box, 1 flat folder)
This collection contains photographs, slides, and programs from races held at the Riverside International Raceway, a race track in Riverside, California that was in operation from 1957-1989.
1.25 linear ft. (2 boxes)
The collection contains two scrapbooks of news clippings, correspondence, political mailers, and other materials related to efforts to pass two ballot propositions related to state bonds in the June 2, 1970 election in California.
7.19 linear ft. (6 boxes, 1 flat folder)
This collection contains records and research on the date palm industry and date palm farming throughout the 20th century, including photographs of date palm farms, brochures, and newspaper clippings. Additionally, the collection contains photographs, programs, correspondence, and pamphlets pertaining to the United States Department of Agriculture Date Station, and items from date palm researchers Walter T. Swingle, and Roy W. Nixon.
2.17 linear ft. (4 boxes)
This collection includes materials from Alfred M. Boyce, an entomologist and first dean of the University of California, Riverside's College of Agriculture. Items in the collection include agricultural research, photographs, information on the Citrus Experiment Station, and materials related to the publication of Boyce's memoir, Odyssey of an Entomologist: Adventures on the Farm, at Sea, and in the University.
0.42 linear ft. (1 box)
The collection contains working papers, articles, proposals, and other documents on solar sails created by Carl A. Wiley, an engineer and mathematician that authored one of the first accounts of how solar sails could be assembled in orbit and used as spacecraft propulsion devices.
0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
This collection contains correspondence from numerous British artists during the 19th and early 20th century received and collected by British painter Edith Hipkins. The majority of the correspondence consists of personal letters sent to Hipkins and her father, musician Alfred J. Hipkins.
Three new open access agreements available to UCR authors
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 run through December 31, 2023. The contract with CSP is the first such agreement for a Canadian journal publisher.
The agreements achieve both of UC’s key goals for transformative open access journal agreements: controlling costs and providing for open access publishing in the full portfolio, including hybrid (subscription-based with open access options) and open access journals of The Royal Society, Canadian Science Publishing, and The Company of Biologists.
UC authors can now publish an unlimited number of research articles immediately open access. The CoB agreement covers all 10 UC campuses, while SCP and The Royal Society agreement are available to all campuses except UCSF. Under the agreement, the UC libraries will automatically pay the first $1,000 of the open access fee, or article processing charge (APC), for all included UC authors who choose to publish in a contracted journal.
Authors are asked to pay the remainder if they have research funds available to do so.
Authors who do not have research funds available can request full funding of the APC from the libraries, ensuring that lack of research funds does not present a barrier for UC authors who wish to publish open access in these journals.
By combining funding from the libraries with authors’ grant funds, the agreement provides a model for how research-intensive institutions can create a sustainable and inclusive path to full open access.
Publishers are exploring how to shift from subscription-based business models to models that make it easier and more affordable for researchers to publish their work open access.
The agreement also provides researchers on participating UC campuses with unlimited access to the full portfolio of Royal Society journals, Canadian Science Publishing journals, and The Company of Biologists’ journals and their archives.
For more detail about these agreements, please see:
- The Royal Society open access agreement
- The Company of Biologists open access agreement
- Canadian Science Publishing open access agreement
About UC’s Transformative Open Access Agreements:
Transformative open access agreements support UC’s mission as a public university and advance the global shift toward sustainable open access publishing by making more UC-authored research articles open to the world, while maintaining journal affordability. UC seeks to partner with publishers of all types, sizes and disciplines to jointly advance a worldwide transition to open access across the entire landscape of scholarly journal publishing. For more on these aims and principles, see UC’s Call to Action for Negotiating Journal Agreements at UC, the UC faculty Academic Senate’s Declaration of Rights and Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication, and UC’s priorities for publisher negotiations.
Library Welcomes New Director of Teaching and Learning
Dani Brecher Cook is our new Director of Teaching and Learning at the UCR Library.
Dani's key responsibility is to lead the development, implementation, and ongoing program for library teaching and learning services and initiatives to support the curricular and research activities of UCR faculty, researchers and students.
The opportunity to establish a new teaching and learning department with a focus on curricular collaboration and learner-centered approaches in a uniquely diverse environment is what excites Dani most about coming to UCR Library. She hopes to build sustainable, ongoing relationships with partners across campus.
“By situating librarians as expert co-educators and sharing our expertise in information resources and pedagogy, UCR Library can materially contribute to the University’s mission to graduate critical thinkers and information-literate citizens,” Dani said. “These skills are especially important in navigating the 21st-century world, where the abundance of information can make it challenging to determine authority, accuracy, and value.”
This newly re-imagined department will also assist faculty and instructors in developing research assignments for students that focus on discovery, exploration, and process.
Previously, Dani served as the Information Literacy and Research Services Coordinator at the Claremont Colleges Library.
Dani has presented nationally at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), LITA Forum (Library Information Technology Association), LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange), and other instruction- and library technology-focused conferences. Her team at Claremont received the 2015 Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) Innovation in Instruction Award for their work in curriculum mapping. Dani and Kevin Michael Klipfel’s article, How Do Our Students Learn? An Outline of a Cognitive Psychological Model for Information Literacy Instruction, was recently selected as one of LIRT’s top 20 articles for 2015.
Dani received her MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and holds an A.B. in English Literature from the University of Chicago, and a Diversity Advocacy Certificate also from UNC Chapel Hill.
Coming soon: a new and improved Orbach Library
During summer quarter 2021, a task force charged with improving the public spaces at Orbach Library began gathering feedback from the UCR community.
At present, the task force is preparing its final report to share their findings and suggested upgrades and changes for the Raymond L. Orbach Science Library.
“Some improvements have already begun,” said University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble. “We ordered power bar tables and barstools to place in the window alcoves, which will provide several additional café-style study spaces on each floor at Orbach.”
There are also plans to upgrade technology throughout Orbach Library. “This past summer, the campus IT department dramatically improved the WiFi network,” said Associate University Librarian Kevin Comerford. “The main computer classroom in Orbach is also getting a complete overhaul. New, lightweight laptops will be available for student use, replacing the old hardwired desktop PCs.”
Funds from the Student Technology Fee will help to finance the creation of a new Data / GIS / Digital Scholarship Learning Lab, which Comerford expects to open sometime in 2022. “It will feature a high-end display system and powerful desktop computers that will allow students to work on GIS, data visualization, and creative graphic projects,” he explained.
Library leadership also plans to launch a similar task force focused on improvements at the Tomás Rivera Library later in the 2021-2022 academic year.
New dynamic eLearning resource offers test prep and tutorials
The UCR Library has a new resource called PrepSTEP, a highly-acclaimed eLearning solution by EBSCO LearningExpress that provides interactive tutorials, practice tests, and more.
It includes a full suite of dynamic eLearning resources that support the lives of students through academic success and preparation for today’s workplace.
PrepSTEP includes:
- Practice tests for graduate admissions exams (including the GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MAT, MCAT and PCAT)
- Tutorials in core math, science and English skills
- College success skills
- Career preparation
- Basic computer skills
- Placement test preparation
- eBooks
- Resources for Spanish speakers
You can find PrepStep through the library’s website by following these steps: Library.ucr.edu > databases > search for “PrepSTEP”
You can also use this short-link (works best on campus or when logged in through VPN): http://bit.ly/ucr-testprep
The library has a 1-year trial and may extend, depending on how frequently our community uses it.
For questions or assistance with PrepStep, please contact Carla Arbagey, Collection Strategist for Arts and Humanities.
New resources: ICPSR & ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses Global
The UCR Library recently acquired access to ICPSR data sets and ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses Global.
ICPSR
UCR is an institutional member of Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which provides data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social and behavioral science research community.
ICPSR is the world's largest archive of social science data, and is expanding into other disciplines as well. ICPSR provides web access to documentation and data files for use with statistical software, such as R, SAS, SPSS, and Stata.
UCR researchers in political science, economics, education, ethnic studies, gender studies, sociology, and more may find these data sets useful. Create an account on the ICPSR website to get started!
If you have questions, consult our ICPSR LibGuide or contact Data Librarian Kat Koziar.
ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses Global
The Library acquired access to ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses Global, a database containing full-text access to almost 3 million multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from the US and around the world from thousands of universities ranging from 1861 to the present, with additional content being added annually.
Start using this new resource: search.proquest.com/dissertations/advanced.
See all the databases the UCR Library has to offer
You can see all the databases available through the UCR Library for your research at guides.lib.ucr.edu/az.php.
New Arrivals for the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Our new pop-up exhibit features recent acquisitions for the Eaton Collection - including Afrofuturism, Latinx comics, and more! Come visit us during winter quarter on the 4th floor of the Rivera Library from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in Special Collections & University Archives.
| Event | New Arrivals for the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Location | Tomás Rivera Library, 4th floor, Special Collections & University Archives |
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| Parking | Free Visitor Parking is available on Fridays, starting at 12:00 PM through 6:00 AM Monday morning in the unreserved spaces of the following parking lots/structures: Lot 6 Blue Lot 13 Blue Big Springs Parking Structure 2 Lot 26 Gold Lot 30 Gold Lot 50 Gold Paid Visitor Parking information can be found here. |
New Digitization Project Coordinator
UCR Library is pleased to announce that Kimberlee Frederick has accepted the Digitization Project Coordinator position in Collection Maintenance.
Kimberlee transitioned from her role as Circulation/Course Reserves Assistant on December 12, 2016.
As the Digitization Project Coordinator, Kimberlee took over the day-to-day management of the student employees and workflows for the Google and Federal Documents Archive scanning projects. Kimberlee’s primary workspace will continue to be in Rivera Circulation, and she can be reached at extension 2-3220.
If you have any questions regarding the Google or Federal Document Archive scanning projects, please contact Michelle Gipson at extension 2-2667.
Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Kimberlee to her new position.
Library Welcomes New Geospatial Information Librarian
Janet Reyes is our new Geospatial Information Librarian for the UCR Library.
Janet spent her professional career creating or using a variety of geographic data. Prior to coming to UC Riverside, the bulk of her career was spent at Aerial Information Systems Inc. (AIS), an environmental consulting firm in Redlands, California that specializes in geospatial data development. Among her duties at AIS were photointerpretation of land use and vegetation; compiling various types of geographic data into geographic information systems (GIS); project management; quality control; data assessment; and report writing. Many of the projects completed by AIS covered portions of the Inland Empire or southern California, and some were performed as a subcontractor to the GIS software giant Esri.
Janet also has experience as a planner handling mapping projects and demographic data for the San Bernardino County Planning Department, and she worked for Rome Research Corporation as a photointerpreter.
She holds a BS in natural resources from Cornell University and an MS in physical geography from Oregon State University, where she worked in the Environmental Remote Sensing Applications Laboratory.
In her new role, Janet looks forward to connecting UCR community members to the geospatial information they need.