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Library Welcomes New Financial and Administrative Analyst
Camille Mahant joined the UCR Library team on Monday, July 18, 2016, as a Financial and Administrative Analyst.
Camille's key responsibilities are to provide financial, budgetary, analytical and administrative support to the Administration of the University Library. Camille brings five years of experience as a financial analyst within the University of California-Riverside’s Business and Administrative Services unit. Her prior background includes public agency finance and healthcare planning and finance.
Camille earned her BS in cell biology from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and her MBA from California State University - Fullerton.
Library Welcomes New Business Systems Analyst
UCR Library is pleased to welcome Ramon Barcia as the library’s Business Systems Analyst.
Ramon will be working as part of the Library Cyberinfrastructure team, with a primary focus on Integrated Library Management Systems (ILMS).
Ramon has over a decade of experience performing challenging business systems analysis and project management in the healthcare industry. He has worked with organizations that include Kaiser, Loma Linda University, Dignity Health, and Siemens.
In addition, Ramon has earned the industry-recognized Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement certification, and is preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Ramon will be located with the Cyberinfrastructure team, in Orbach room 114.
History
The Science Library (later renamed to the Orbach Science Library) was the first new library building at UCR in over 25 years when it opened in 1998. The building was designed by the architectural firms, Ehrlich-Rominger and Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott. Construction began in February 1996 and was completed shortly before the library officially opened in August 1998.
Rivera Library Welcomes New Night and Billing Coordinator
Charles (Chuck) Stephenson joined the UCR Library on September 6, 2016, as our Rivera Night & Billing Coordinator.
Chuck will be located in Circulation/Reserves on the first floor of Rivera Library, and will report to Sahra Missaghieh Klawitter, Circulation/Reserves Services Manager.
He comes to UCR from Chapman University, where he worked as the library’s Night Circulation Supervisor. He has experience with circulation, reserves, and in working with users regarding library fines and fees.
Chuck earned his BS in communications from Ohio University.
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.
Support the UCR Library on Give Day!
Mark your calendars, UCR Give Day is March 4-5, 2025!
This annual fundraising event is a chance for the Highlander community to rally behind key campus initiatives, and the UCR Library is excited to participate.
This year, the UCR Library is raising money for two critical funds:
- Raymond L. Orbach Library Endowed Fund, which supports the acquisition of new science and engineering resources such as databases, journals, and books.
- Creat’R Lab Fund, which helps expand technology offerings in our makerspace, the Creat’R Lab. The Creat’R Lab Team is hoping to purchase a new resin printer that will enable more precise and durable 3D printing projects—perfect for engineering, medical, and design applications.
Give Day is a fully digital campaign. If you’re on the UCR Library’s contact list, you’ll receive a text message or email on March 4 with links to our Give Day pages. Want to make a difference today? You can make a gift early by visiting our Give Day landing page. You can also donate to any of our funds at library.ucr.edu/giving.
If you have any questions or would prefer to make a donation in another form, please contact the UCR Library’s Senior Director of Development Shannon Castro via email or call/text her at (626) 378-1424.
About
The UCR Library serves as an information commons and intellectual center for the campus and is the nexus for research and study at UCR.
Library to host Open Access Week 2019
The University of California, Riverside Library will host Open Access Week 2019, as part of the global event called International Open Access Week.
The event series will kick off on Monday, Oct. 21, with workshops held each afternoon, Monday through Thursday in the Orbach Library, Room 122. “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge" is the 2019 theme.
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, research and data planning and preservation.
The Open Access movement is made of up advocates (librarians, researchers, publishers, etc.) who promote the free, immediate, and online publication of research.
This will be the tenth International Open Access Week program hosted by the UCR Library.
The Open Access Week workshops are free and open to the public.
The program includes:
Monday, October 21, 2019
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Instructor: Kat Koziar
This workshop will discuss differences between open, shared, and closed data; identify places to find open data; and, steps to take when creating a dataset using open data.
Open Science Framework: A Free Tool for Research Collaboration
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Instructor: Brianna Marshall
The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a freely available tool to keep data and documentation from your project organized and accessible. OSF can be used for any kind of project, not just in the sciences. In this workshop, you'll learn how this tool can help you enhance the efficiency and visibility of your work.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Instructor: Janet Reyes
QGIS is a free and open source geographic information system. It allows users to create, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, and BSD. This workshop will introduce some of the basic mapping functions available in QGIS.
Open Access without APC's: The Present and the Future
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Instructor: Michele Potter
If you are interested in all of the benefits of open access publishing, but are concerned about high Article Processing Charges, this workshop will give tips and insider information on such options as writing APCs into grants, how and when to apply for waivers and using the UC repository, eScholarship, to open up your research. We will also take a peek at the future and the work that is being done to eliminate and/or streamline charges for Open Access throughout the scholarly community.
Publishing Options: Some Important Issues to Know
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Instructor: Swati Bhattacharyya
Publishing in a good journal is an indicator of the scholarly achievement of a researcher and one of the most challenging targets in the scholarly world. Many stakeholders such as funding agencies and University of California, however, have already brought a mandate of opening the scholarship for all. The mandate is often referred to as open access policy. There are several myths surrounding this policy. In this session, we will discuss how such a policy can be respected without compromising the quality of scholarship, what are various publishing options and how you can reach your readers widely and quickly.
Celebrate Preservation Week at the UCR Library
Join us for free events and workshops dedicated to preserving the past, safeguarding the present, and ensuring the future of our collective histories and personal memories.
Preservation Week is an initiative to raise awareness about the importance of preservation in our community, focusing this year on preserving identities. We invite you to partake in a series of engaging events at the library, designed to educate, inspire, and empower everyone to play a role in preserving their own cherished items and stories.
Event schedule:
Monday, April 29
- Preservation in the Library | 1 - 3 p.m. | Rivera, 1st Floor
- Stop by and learn about preservation in the library at our tabling event. We will explain what preservation is, why it is important, and what we currently do in the library to keep our items safe. This year’s theme is Preserving Identities and we invite you to bring all your questions about how to keep your own beloved items safe. Also, you can bring a printed copy of a photo of something or someone you love to turn it into a button on our button machine.
Wednesday, May 1
- Make Your Own Journal | 1 - 3 p.m. | Orbach, 1st Floor
- Come join us and learn how to make a soft cover pamphlet journal. These easy-to-make journals are handy for taking notes or sketching. They are also a great way to learn what goes into making books. But be careful…you might end up really liking it too much and start making your own later. Promptness is important to keep the process as smooth as possible so everyone can enjoy the experience. All supplies will be provided. No previous craftiness required.
Thursday, May 2
- Tape Removal Obstacle Course | 1 - 3 p.m. | Rivera, 1st Floor
- Come learn about tape, and all the ways books and paper have suffered since its invention. We will have a practical hands on exercise to remove ‘archival’ tapes and see if they truly live up to the hype of being removable. We will also talk through good ways to repair your paper or hold things together.
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.