More News August 06, 2019

Supporting the UCR Library just became a lot easier.

Recently, the library published an updated giving site, Support the Library, Transform the World, in collaboration with University Advancement.

The revised design prominently features the library's top six donation categories, and the development funds that tie directly to them:

• Student Success
• Research Excellence
• Creativity & Entrepreneurship
• Inspiring Spaces
• Imagination
• Cultural Heritage

“The UCR Library has a number of giving opportunities, and has had for a number of years. Our old giving site made it difficult for potential supporters of the library, our faculty, and our students to find the opportunities that those supporters were seeking,” explained University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble.

“Our new site helps bring those giving opportunities to life in a way that is easy-to-navigate, compelling, and tells the story of how the UCR Library is supporting the teaching and research mission of the university … and how our supporters can enable us to succeed in that mission.”

Explore the library's new giving site and learn how every gift can make a difference.

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 May 03, 2024

The HVAC system for Rivera Unit 1, the north side of Rivera Library, is undergoing a major upgrade estimated to take as long as six months to complete.

Be aware that as a result of this work, there will be no air conditioning in the north wing for the duration of the project. 

We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding as we work to improve our facilities.

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 March 01, 2019

The UCR Library is delighted to announce that Robin Katz has moved from Special Collections to join the Teaching and Learning Department as the Primary Source Literacy Teaching Librarian.

This move aligns with the library’s overall organizational strategy to house teaching-related activities and expertise in Teaching and Learning.

This move creates great potential for new projects in Teaching and Learning. The library hopes this move will foster an even closer relationship between this department and  Special Collections and University Archives.

Robin's new office is in Room 121 (in the Teaching and Learning office suite) on the first floor of Tomás Rivera Library, but her e-mail and phone number remain the same.

Please join us in congratulating Robin!

More Past Exhibits March 23, 2023

In celebration of LGBT History Month and in partnership with the UCR LGBT Resource Center, the UCR Library will launch its new exhibition program with a poster display entitled The History of the LGBT Civil Rights Movement. Created by the ONE Archives Foundation located in West Hollywood, California the material "explores the incredibly inspiring journey of the LGBTQ Civil Rights movement" beginning in the 1940s. Accompanying the exhibit are books and scholarly work from UCR faculty in the area of LGBT Studies, and other related volumes from the UCR Library collection.

From the start of "gayborhoods," to the Lavender Scare, the Stonewall Riots, the national pride movement, and the AIDS crisis, The History of the LGBT Civil Rights Movement exhibition complements UCR's own history in supporting the LGBT community. In 1993, UCR was the first campus in the state of California to open a professionally-staffed LGBT resource center and, in 1996, the first to offer an LGBT studies minor. We are proud to be the first public university in the nation to offer gender-inclusive housing, to co-found T*Camp — the first intercampus retreat in the nation for trans/genderqueer and gender questioning college students, and to found the BlaqOUT Conference — the first college conference in the nation serving Black/African American students and students of African descent who identify on the LGBT spectrum.

The History of the LGBT Civil Rights Movement exhibition will open on October 12, 2015 in Rivera Library on the University of California, Riverside campus. For more information, please contact Sara Fitzgerald, Communications Stewardship Director for the UCR Library. *

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More News July 29, 2019

Effective July 29, 2019, the UCR Library is pleased to announce that Raul Aguilera has accepted a new position as Access Services Assistant (Evenings).

Raul will be located in Circulation/Course Reserves on the first floor of the Rivera Library, reporting to Chuck Stephenson, Rivera Night and Billing Coordinator.

Most recently, Raul served as the .75 FTE Access Services Desk Assistant – Rivera. Before that, he was a Library Assistant 3 at the University of California, Irvine. Raul also has experience working with the UCR Library in his role as an Affiliate - Library Assistant 3 at the Orbach Science Library.

Please join us in congratulating Raul on his new role!

• Read more about Sabino Osuna Papers

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.