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Celebrating 50 Years of the Women's Resource Center
New Exhibit Celebrates WRC's 50th Anniversary
In 2023, UCR's Women's Resource Center (WRC) marked a significant milestone — its 50th year of existence! To commemorate this remarkable journey, the WRC — in collaboration with the UCR Library — presents an inspiring exhibit that delves into the WRC's rich history and its continuing impact on the UCR community. See flyers and buttons that transport you to the 1970s, enjoy photos of the wonderful people who made the WRC what it is today, and learn how the organization has empowered Highlander women.
| Event | Celebrating 50 Years of the Women's Resource Center |
| Location | Tomás Rivera Library, 1st Floor (after entering the Library, turn left) |
| Dates | November 6, 2023 - January 19, 2024 |
| Hours |
Monday - Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. |
| 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:
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4 to Explore: December 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 December in 4 to Explore:
1932 Diary
December resolutions by a young woman
John Donne
1633 first edition of the collected poems
Mexican Inauguration Photos
Beautiful 1920 album of President Álvaro Obregón
The California Water Atlas
Published by the state in the 70s to make government data accessible
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!
Ramon Barcia
The Business Systems Analyst serves as the subject matter expert for the library’s Integrated Library Management System (ILMS) applications and is responsible for analyzing business practices, processes, workflows, and developing solutions for information issues. Additional responsibilities include business systems analytics and project management for various application projects, user training on productivity applications, and information technology help desk support.
Business Systems Analyst
Faculty and graduate students face off in ORCID contest
A contest will be held in May 2017 between the UCR faculty and the UCR graduate students to register the largest percentage of “team” members for ORCID IDs.
“Team Faculty” will consist of senate faculty and non-senate academic faculty and staff (Lecturers, Librarians and Researchers). “Team Grad Student” will consist of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The UCR Library will announce the start of the contest and, at the end of the contest, announce the winner.
Background:
ORCID IDs are unique identifiers for researchers. They are becoming increasingly valuable for differentiating the work of one researcher from another. Some publishers and grant giving agencies are now requiring submitters to include their ORCID IDs when submitting. An additional benefit to researchers is the ability to create a profile of publications and grants that increases their visibility and can interface with other researcher profiling systems. There are currently 539 members of the UCR community with ORCID IDs. It is free to register for an ORCID ID.
ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID.
Rules:
- Researchers must register for an ORCID ID between May 1, 2017 at midnight and May 31, 2017 at 11:59pm to be eligible. Prior registrations will not count.
- The team with the largest percentage of new ORCID registrants during that period will be declared the winners. For the purposes of calculating the percentage, only team members who have not registered with ORCID prior to the beginning of the contest will count towards the team’s total membership count. They can, however, participate in the esprit de corps and accept any earned bragging rights.
- The representative of the losing team will present the representative of the winning team with an orchid at a specified place and time.
- It is not required to complete a full ORCID profile with papers and grants for the purposes of the contest, through it is highly encouraged. The library is available to help with this process.
To enter the contest, register for your ORCID ID here.
Orange Roots
The University of California, Riverside Library invites you to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition, titled, “Orange Roots: The Remarkable Story of Two Trees, a Pioneer Town, and the University of California, Riverside.”
The welcome reception in honor of the exhibition’s opening will be held at the library, from 2-4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited so we encourage you to register if you wish to attend.
The reception will include a talk by Susan Straight, professor of creative writing at UCR, and a citrus-tasting station where guests can sample different varieties of citrus fruits. The citrus-tasting station will be organized by Tracy Kahn, UCR’s Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection Endowed Chair. Free parking will be available. Those interested in attending should RSVP using the link below.
In honor of Homecoming and Discover Day, the University of California, Riverside Library invites you to join us for a curator-led tour of the "Orange Roots" exhibition. This tour will be held at Rivera Library from 12-1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19, and led by exhibit curator and librarian Krista Ivy. The tour is free and open to the public, but space is limited so we encourage you to register if you wish to attend.
The exhibition will showcase the remarkable history of Riverside’s citrus heritage, from its early, pioneer days to the establishment of UCR. It will feature photographs, historical documents, and other memorabilia from the UCR Library Special Collections & University Archives, the UCR Citrus Variety Collection, the UCR Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, the Riverside Metropolitan Museum, and the Riverside Public Library.
The exhibition will remain on display at the Tomás Rivera Library through June 2017.
Specialty Labs
Scholarly Technology and Research (STAR) Lab
This computer lab, located in Orbach Library Room 147, has four high-performance Windows PC workstations and one Epson Photo Scanner.
Recent professional achievements by library staff
Join us as we celebrate these recent achievements by the following UCR Library employees.
Dan Szilagyi, Manager of Cyberinfrastructure recently completed the UC Information Technology Leadership Academy (UCITLA), taught by faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. UCITLA is an intensive learning experience that consisted of two three-day sessions in February and May 2019, along with a team project that was completed in between sessions. Szilagyi participated in the fourth UCITLA cohort.
Participants learned about strategic leadership, innovation and change management; networked with peers to support collaboration and innovation initiatives across the UC system; and prepared to guide staff through change, challenge and opportunity.
UC Riverside’s CIO Danna Gianforte nominated Szilagyi for UCITLA 2019. He said, “UCITLA was excellent and eye-opening, particularly in the area of innovation. The people were amazing to work with.”
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Elisha Hankins, Orbach Library’s Access Services Desk Coordinator recently completed her Professional Academic Advisor Certification Course (PAACC), a 10-month comprehensive professional development program that teaches the history, practice and art of academic advising, including the crucial role that academic advisors play in student success, building student-centered and responsibility-sharing relationships, and honing the advisor’s conceptual, informational and relational skills.
Hankins’ role keeps her working closely with dozens of library student employees in Access Services, which is what first piqued her interest in PAACC. “A traditional academic advisor only interacts with their students once per quarter, and that’s if their students are proactive. I work with my students 20 hours a week. PAACC gave me tools and resources to use in my current job,” she said.
“The people that I end up hiring tend to be the ones who want to be world-changers or world-shakers, the ones who want to make a difference,” she added.
The PAACC program also provided skills for working with library patrons. As Hankins explained, “Because we work at the Circulation Desk, people think we’re their best friends, so they’ll tell us their life stories. So we can put these skills into practice with the patrons we assist, as well.”
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Cataloging Librarian Ruben Urbizagastegui recently published “Analysis of El Niño Coastal phenomenon by the method of associated words.”(Ciência da Informação. 2019, v. 48, n. 2.). In this paper, he compared two articles about the local weather phenomenon that affects the coasts of Peru and Ecuador. “El Niño causes a mess all over the world, with typhoons in India and droughts in Australia and California,” he explained. “But the Incas already knew of this phenomenon and knew how to control it.”
The articles he contrasted were written by two of the most prestigious newspapers in Peru -- one government-owned and the other privately owned. He noted the impact of socio-economic influence on the written word. “We analyzed the information, expecting to find two different perspectives, but we found only one,” he said. “In other words, the newspapers don’t care about the people. They do what they do to protect their own interests.”
Urbizagastegui has worked at the UCR Library for 30 years and has published eight books in that time. Additionally, he regularly reviews articles for five or six different library scientific journals. Most of his work has been published in Spanish or Portuguese on issues that affect marginalized communities.
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In May 2019, Raul Aguilera, Access Services Assistant (Evenings) at Rivera Library completed his Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree with San Jose State University. He began his career as a work-study student at Orbach Library in January 2014, while working toward his Bachelor’s degree in English at UC Riverside (class of 2015).
“Originally, I wanted to be an English professor,” Aguilera said. As a student, he saw the value of the services that the library provided and the research that librarians do; so he began to envision a different career path in academia. Aguilera believes that his life experience as a UCR student gives him an added perspective about which kinds of library services would be most valuable to our patrons.
“I really like giving service, and if someone leaves the desk happy, I feel like I’ve accomplished something,” he added. “I think that’s just part of my nature, being able to contribute in a higher capacity, going above and beyond whenever I’m able to.”
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Judy Lee, University Programs Teaching Librarian co-wrote a chapter,“Remembering Consciousness is Power: Working to Center Academic Library Outreach in the Service of Social Justice, Asian and Pacific Islander American Ethnic Visibility, and Coalition-Building,” in Cura, Yago S, and Max Macias. Librarians with Spines: Information Agitators in an Age of Stagnation: Volume II. Los Angeles: Hinchas Press, 2019. Lee co-wrote the chapter in collaboration with Melissa Cardenas-Dow, a former colleague at the UCR Library who is now a librarian at California State University, Sacramento.
Librarians with Spines is the second volume in a radical book of essays and chapters on library issues and topics related to emerging and marginalized communities, and is available for purchase on Amazon.
4 to Explore: January 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 January in 4 to Explore:
Winter Sequences
A seasonal broadside poem by Diane Wakoski
Sand Samples
Collected to study sand displacement and acquisition around the world
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root
An anthology edited by UCR's own Nalo Hopkinson
Royal Cartes de Visite
Photographs of European and Latin American aristocrats
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!
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