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4 to Explore: February Selections from Special Collections
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 displacement and acquisition around the world
Royal Cartes de Visite
Photographs of European and Latin American aristocrats
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root
An anthology edited by UCR's own Nalo Hopkinson
Why you should try 4 to Explore:
Special Collections materials are kept in closed stacks, which means you can’t see the shelves and browse. You also can’t check things out and take them home. So, 4 to Explore is a great way to experience first-hand some of the collections that truly make the UCR Library unique.
4 to Explore will give you the chance to visit a reading room, like the ones that are used for archival research or by rare book scholars, and to get a sampling of our collections without having to submit a request ahead of time.
You’ll be asked to show photo ID and to check your bags – but don’t worry! Our UCR Library staff will explain everything to you when you arrive.
We will also have rotating exhibits of items from the collections on display.
Where to find 4 to Explore:
Department: Special Collections & University Archives
Where: Take elevators to 4th floor of Rivera Library
Hours: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Monday - Friday
Bring: Photo ID
Don’t bring: Food or drinks
Who: Everyone is welcome. 4 to Explore is more of an individual experience, but we can usually accommodate up to two people using the same item at the same time, so feel free to bring a friend.
What to expect: Staff will help you sign in and feel comfortable in the reading room. It should take about 5-10 minutes for you to get up to the 4th floor and get settled. Then you can stay and enjoy as long as you like!
Want to receive updates each month with more details about our 4 to Explore items? Sign up here.
4 to Explore: April Selections from Special Collections
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
My Pretty Pony
Barbara Kruger illustrates Stephen King's story
Wild Gardens of Old California
How a Scotsman took wildflowers to Britain
Why you should try 4 to Explore:
Special Collections materials are kept in closed stacks, which means you can’t see the shelves and browse. You also can’t check things out and take them home. So, 4 to Explore is a great way to experience first-hand some of the collections that truly make the UCR Library unique.
4 to Explore will give you the chance to visit a reading room, like the ones that are used for archival research or by rare book scholars, and to get a sampling of our collections without having to submit a request ahead of time.
You’ll be asked to show photo ID and to check your bags – but don’t worry! Our UCR Library staff will explain everything to you when you arrive.
We will also have rotating exhibits of items from the collections on display.
Where to find 4 to Explore:
Department: Special Collections & University Archives
Where: Take elevators to 4th floor of Rivera Library
Hours: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Monday - Friday
Bring: Photo ID
Don’t bring: Food or drinks
Who: Everyone is welcome. 4 to Explore is more of an individual experience, but we can usually accommodate up to two people using the same item at the same time, so feel free to bring a friend.
What to expect: Staff will help you sign in and feel comfortable in the reading room. It should take about 5-10 minutes for you to get up to the 4th floor and get settled. Then you can stay and enjoy as long as you like!
Want to receive updates each month with more details about our 4 to Explore items? Sign up here.
Children’s & Young Adult Literature
Located in: Tomás Rivera Library
The UCR Library offers a significant collection of children’s and young adult literature. Winning titles from more than fifty annual awards deemed of the most significance to K-12 teachers are featured. Resources also include “big books” for children pre-K through grade 3, sized for sharing with a group of students rather than individual reading.
5 Ways to Make a Difference on World Water Day
One year ago, 99.57% of California exhibited “abnormally dry” conditions, and 55.31% of the state had “extreme drought” intensity.
Today, those numbers have fallen to 23.46% and 0%, respectively.
While California’s drought statistics have improved temporarily due to increased precipitation this past year, water conditions in other parts of the world still have a long way to go.
March 22, 2017 marks the 24th annual World Water Day, and the 2017 campaign focus is, “Why wastewater?”
“With over 80% of the world’s wastewater flowing back into the water cycle without treatment, World Water Day serves as a reminder of the importance of working together as a global community to protect and preserve our critical aquatic resources,” said Kent LaCombe, UCR Library’s Water Resources Librarian.
According to the World Water Day fact sheet, proper management of waste water can help to create an “affordable and sustainable source of water, energy, nutrients, and other recoverable materials.”
It stands to reason that the less we waste, the more we can save. Here are 5 simple ways that UC Riverside students, staff and faculty can help to conserve and reuse water on a daily basis:
- Use water from boiling pasta to nourish your plants (after it has cooled).
- Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth and washing your hands.
- Use a bucket to collect water while your shower warms up. Use what you collect as your pets’ drinking water or to water plants.
- Take shorter showers or “camping showers.” (Get wet, turn off water, shampoo / lather up, then turn water back on to rinse off.)
- Landscape yards with succulents or drought-tolerant plants instead of grass – or even better, make a rock garden.
Coordinated by UN-Water in collaboration with governments and partners, World Water Day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly to serve as an annual reminder for the global community to work toward a collective solution for the water crisis.
World Water Day launched Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, aiming to ensure every global citizen has access to safe water by the year 2030. They have designated water as a primary issue in the effort to eliminate extreme poverty.
California’s drought situation may have improved temporarily, and Flint, Michigan recently received a substantial award from the Environmental Protection Agency to upgrade infrastructure to combat its toxic water supply. Yet recent reports of contaminated water supplies in San Deigo county shed light on just now timely the 2017 theme of World Water Day truly is. With increased demand on the drinking water supply as more and more populations move into cities, according to World Water Day statistics, increased action will be critical to maintain access to clean water.
To learn more about how you can make a difference, please visit worldwaterday.org.
In addition, the Water Resource Collection and Archives available online through Calisphere can be another great source to guide your research, study, and activism.
Print, Copy, Scan
Wepa Cloud Printing
UC Riverside provides cloud printing services through Wepa, a print management solution developed specifically for student printing in higher education and university settings. UCR’s Information Technology Solutions (ITS) maintains and manages the platform and they have installed Wepa printing kiosks throughout campus.
Collections
Medical Education
Electronic journals, databases, clinical decision aids, and books on medical ethics, cultural competency, and medical humanities.
Patents & Trademarks Collection
Patent models, patent and trademark gazettes, and guides to patent information through the Patent and Trademark Resource Center.
Finals Week Stress Relief - Fall 2016
It’s hard to believe that Fall Quarter 2016 is already drawing to a close, but suddenly we find ourselves with Finals Week only days away.
UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere for our students, and final exams can tend to breed a lot of stress. That is why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief event series at the end of every quarter. These events give library employees an opportunity to get to know our students better, and for our students to let off steam together in a safe and fun way.
This quarter, we have crowd favorites returning to the line-up, such as the Therapy Dogs, as well as a few new activities.
Finals Week Stress Relief will kick off on Wednesday, November 30, 2016. The full schedule of events can be found on our Events page.
In addition, there is a contest to win a VIP Study Room. Details for the contest are available on our Facebook page.
Volunteers are always welcome to help run the events. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Sahra Missaghieh Klawitter or Elisha Hankins to find out how to get involved.
Governing the future of the Inland Empire Memories project
At the beginning of fall quarter 2018, University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble invited delegates from various local cultural heritage institutions to Orbach Library to discuss the Inland Empire Memories project.
More than 20 groups attended the event, including representatives from the Riverside African American Historical Society, Sherman Indian High School Museum, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, San Bernardino County Museum, San Bernardino County Historical Archives, March Field Air Museum, and more.
At this meeting, it was determined that the next step would be the formation of a small working group to develop a recommendation for the structure and funding of the group. The working group is comprised of representatives from academic institution libraries, museums, archives and galleries, who would help the UCR Library propel Inland Empire Memories forward into its next phase.
That group has since been formed and will meet again in January 2019 to develop the framework for building a sustainable network and structure to govern the Inland Empire Memories project moving forward.
Those interested in the Inland Empire Memories project should contact the UCR Library’s Assistant University Librarian for Content and Discovery, Tiffany Moxham for information.
Britt Foster
Britt’s key responsibility is providing strategic direction, planning, and implementation of UCR Library’s instructional program. Also a collaborative development of existing and new approaches to information literacy instruction, instructional design, pedagogic methods, and advanced online synchronous, asynchronous, and dual modality learning.
Director of Teaching and Learning
