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More News September 12, 2016

Effective September 12, 2016, Ann Frenkel will be taking on the title of Deputy University Librarian for the UCR Library.

In this role, Ann will exercise leadership, oversight of operations, and activities associated with promoting and ensuring overall UCR Library effectiveness, which will position the UCR Library for continued success.

Ann will serve as the proxy for the University Librarian, with the requisite authority to address UCR Library issues, and will exercise broad decision-making authority over the Library’s assessment and communications programs as well as oversight of UCR Library policy implementation. She will also routinely represent the UCR Library on UCR and system-wide initiatives in the University Librarian’s absence.

This move is part of a trend that we are seeing at research universities across the country and within the UC system, including at UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UC Merced, and UC Los Angeles.

In light of the increased travel requirements of the University Librarian for development and other professional commitments on campus and beyond for the University Librarian, identifying a Deputy University Librarian ensures continuity of operations when the University Librarian is not present.

In addition to the Research and Instructional Services Division, which will continue to report to Ann, Communications has also been moved into Ann’s expanded portfolio.

More News May 08, 2017

One of the noteworthy resources housed in the UCR Library’s Special Collections & University Archives is an assortment of glass plate negatives, photographs, and lantern slides taken by photographer Sabino Osuna.

Created during the years 1910 to 1914, Osuna’s images feature prominent figures in the Mexican Revolution, including Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Alvaro Obregon, and others.

Osuna’s photographs also depict soldiers engaged in guerrilla warfare on the streets of Mexico City during La Decena Trágica, a ten-day period from February 9 and February 19, 1913 that resulted in a coup d’état and the assassinations of the Mexican president and vice president.

A copy of the full Osuna digital photograph catalog was presented to Mexico’s Secretary of Culture by UC Board of Regents Chair Monica Lozano in a hand-made box.

The presentation ceremony was held on March 29, 2017 during a reception at the University of California’s facility in Mexico City, called Casa de California.

“California and Mexico share a long and rich tradition of arts and culture,” UC President Janet Napolitano commented. “It’s with great pleasure that we provide the ministry with access to the Osuna collection as a symbol of our continued partnership on issues of cultural significance.”

Now, students, historians, and community members in Mexico will also have local access to his rich cultural record.

UC Riverside students, staff, faculty, and community members are invited to visit Special Collections on the fourth floor of Tomás Rivera Library to view the Osuna collection in person. The images can also be viewed online using Calisphere.

More News June 17, 2019

Melvyl’s long-awaited switch to WorldCat Discovery, the Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) newer discovery user interface, launched on Monday, June 17, 2019.

Melvyl is the discovery platform for the University of California libraries.

As the world's largest library catalog, WorldCat helps users find items in libraries close to them and makes the UCR Library’s resources more visible to people on the Web.

What does it mean to faculty, students and staff to make the switch?

Library users will see a new interface. WorldCat Discovery has made many improvements in the user experience, including:

• newer technology infrastructure, which supports ongoing expansion and increased operability with other services
• interface automatically adapts to user devices, including smartphones, notebooks, laptops and desktop computers, to give people the same experience regardless of device. A new search algorithm delivers more relevant search results than the previous interfaces
• Library staff can better support interlibrary loan, reference and collection development

Technically, what does it mean to make the switch?

Basically, it’s changing URLs. Users  who have Melvyl URLs listed on a department or course website or course management system will need to update their links or bookmarks.

The updated link for UC Riverside users is: https://ucr.on.worldcat.org/discovery

How to switch to WorldCat Discovery

Change your bookmark or website linked URLs that point to WorldCat Local to point to WorldCat Discovery anytime before August 9, 2019.

In the meantime, try WorldCat Discovery and report any problems directly to CDL at melvylops@cdlib.org.

What happens to personal lists on WorldCat Local?

Although it is not possible for personal lists attached to WorldCat Local accounts to be automatically ported into WorldCat Discovery, users can easily import lists from either WorldCat Local (or WorldCat.org) accounts to their WorldCat Discovery accounts using OCLC’s instructions here.

Looking ahead

CDL will continue to publish updates in CDLInfo News: Melvyl. Feel free to email the CDL Melvyl Operations Team if you have any questions.

For the latest information, see the CDL WorldCat Discovery Beta website.

More News November 29, 2017

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 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 Therapy Fluffies, Surprise Snack Giveaway, Study Jam, as well as a few new activities.

Finals Week Stress Relief will kick off on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. The full schedule of events is as follows:

Wednesday, Dec. 6

• Art Project begins (Rivera & Orbach Libraries)
• Therapy Fluffies with the WELL (Rivera & Orbach Libraries) – 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Thursday, Dec. 7

• All-Day Cartoons (Rivera & Orbach Libraries) – 8:00 am – 11:00 pm
• Squish Away Your Stress: Make Your Own Stress Ball with the Creat’R Lab (Orbach Library) – 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Friday, Dec. 8

• Surprise Snack Giveaway (Rivera & Orbach Libraries)

Saturday, Dec. 9

• Fruit Ninja Bowls (Rivera & Orbach Libraries) – 2:00 pm (while supplies last)

Sunday, Dec. 10

• Study Jam Tutoring with the Academic Resource Center - 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm (Orbach Library)

Monday, Dec. 11

• Cookie Break (Orbach Library) – 1:00 pm (while supplies last)
• Massage Therapy with ASPB (Orbach Library) – 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tuesday, Dec. 12

• Hot Cocoa & Donuts with ASPB (Rivera & Orbach Libraries) – 2:00 pm (while supplies last)

Wednesday, Dec. 13

• Pizza Party (Rivera & Orbach Libraries) – 2:00 pm (while supplies last)

In addition, there is a contest to win a VIP Study Room for Sunday, Dec. 10 from 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Details for the contest are available on our Facebook page.

More News April 22, 2019

The Creat’R Faire kicked off UC Riverside’s inaugural Maker Week, which ran from Monday, April 15 to Thursday, April 18, 2019.

Maker Week highlighted making on campus and introduced students to making-related opportunities in the Creat’R Lab, according to Brianna Marshall, UCR Library’s Director of Research Services.

Creat’R Lab student employees and career staff also demonstrated some of the tools and technology that the lab possesses, including the 3D printer and the new laser engraving machine.

“It was definitely a successful event,” Marshall said.

Several student organizations showcased their Creat’R Lab projects on the Orbach Library lawn, including Skyteam (Drone Project), I-Corps: Office of Technology Partnerships / Office of Research and Economic Development (RED), Cosplay Brigade, Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and Gamespawn.

Activities throughout Maker Week included student-led introductory-level workshops in the Creat’R Lab on topics such as button making, costume making, origami, crocheting, Cricut for collage making, Perler beads, 3D scanning, and designing 3D objects with Tinkercad.

“We want Maker Week to be as student-driven as possible, so interested students and student organizations should reach out to us to see how they can get involved with our 2020 Maker Week and Creat’R Faire.”

More News October 26, 2016

The University of California, Riverside Library hosted International Open Access Week 2016, an event that was part of a global effort called Open Access Week.

Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of sharing what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make “open access” a new norm in scholarship and research.

The Open Access movement is made of up advocates (librarians, publishers, university repositories, etc.) who promote the free, immediate, and online publication of research. The event was held on Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the Orbach Science Library, room 240, from 1-3 p.m. “Open in Action” was the 2016 event theme – the program provided information on new publishing models, including those based on Open Access and other alternative publishing models for faculty. The panel at UC Riverside discussed, “Challenges of Open Access in the Digital Age.”

“We organized this panel to provide a thoughtful discussion space for these emerging open access models and show how faculty can benefit from wider and more visible distribution of their research articles,” said Rhonda Neugebauer, the Open Access coordinator at UCR. “We will also discuss UCR’s current Open Access discount and waiver agreements, and ways the library can assist faculty to increase the citing and impact of their research.”

The program included:

• Gabriel J. Gardner, Senior Assistant Librarian for Criminal Justice, Linguistics and Romance, German, and Russian Languages and Literatures at the California State University, Long Beach. Gardner discussed the guerilla open access movement.
• Alison Scott, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication at UCR, addressed the significance of transformative scholarly publishing projects and best practices.
• Kent LaCombe, Water Resources Librarian at UCR, talked about how librarians at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln fostered high deposit rates of faculty scholarly articles into the “Digital Commons,” the campus institutional repository.

The program concluded with a presentation from three UCR librarians, Kat Koziar (engineering), Tiffany Moxham (medicine), and Michele Potter (engineering), who provided an update on UCR’s Open Access discount and waiver agreements, and a brief look at emergent open access publishing models.

This was the seventh International Open Access Week program hosted by the UCR Library.

More News May 18, 2018

It’s hard to believe that another academic year is drawing to a close, but suddenly Finals Week for spring quarter 2018 is only days away.

UCR Library remains committed to creating a supportive atmosphere to help our students cope with the stress of final exams, which is why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief event series at the end of fall, winter and spring quarters.

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.

For spring 2018, we have crowd favorites returning to the line-up, including Therapy Fluffies, Surprise Snack Giveaway and R'Finals Study Jam, along with a few new activities.

Finals Week Stress Relief will kick off on Wednesday, June 6, 2018. The full schedule of events is as follows:

Wednesday, June 6

• Study Break Corner / Art Project begins (Rivera & Orbach)
• A Wrinkle in Slime: Make Your Own Slime (Orbach) – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm *while supplies last
• Snack Attack: Pizza with ASUCR (Orbach) - 7:00 pm *while supplies last

Thursday, June 7

• Therapy Fluffies with the WELL (Rivera & Orbach) – 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
• Snack Attack: Popsicles with ASUCR (Orbach) - 7:00 pm *while supplies last

Friday, June 8

• Surprise Snack Giveaway (Rivera & Orbach) *while supplies last
• Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Affairs (Orbach) - 8:00 pm*while supplies last

Saturday, June 9

• Massage Therapy (Orbach) – 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
• Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Affairs (Orbach) - 8:00 pm*while supplies last

Sunday, June 10

• R'Finals Study Jam  with the Academic Resource Center  (Orbach) - 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
• Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Affairs (Orbach) - 10:00pm *while supplies last

Monday, June 11

• Cookie Break (Orbach) - 1:00 pm *while supplies last
• Snack Wagon with ASUCR (Rivera) - 7:00 pm *while supplies last
• Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Affairs (Orbach) - 10:00pm *while supplies last

Tuesday, June 12

• Taco Tuesday with ASPB (Rivera) - 2:00 pm *while supplies last
• Snack Wagon with ASUCR (Rivera) - 7:00 pm *while supplies last
• Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Affairs (Orbach) - 10:00pm *while supplies last

Wednesday, June 13 

• Cupcake My Day (Orbach) – 2:00 pm *while supplies last
• Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Affairs (Orbach) - 10:00pm *while supplies last

Thursday, June 14

• Boba Tea (Rivera) – 2:00 pm *while supplies last
• Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Affairs (Orbach) - 10:00pm *while supplies last​

In addition, there is a contest to win a VIP Study Room for Sunday, June 10 from 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Details for the contest are available on the library’s Facebook page.

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