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Change Is In the Air
Two changes took effect in the UCR Library on Wednesday, June 22nd.
First, the last coin towers were removed. This means that from now on, all the UCR Library printers and copiers will only accept payments via R’Cards / Bear Bucks.
Secondly, per campus policy, library desk staff will no longer be able to make change, whether for vending machines or for any other purposes.
We have already posted notices on all the Library’s social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), and on printed signs within the Library, as well.
Please help us to spread the word to students, faculty, and staff who have not yet seen the notices. We thank you for understanding.
Rivera Library Lounge
Type
- Public Use
Capacity
- Up to 17 people
The Rivera first floor lounge area is a social space with a mix of soft seating with cafe tables and chairs.
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Example: "ucrlib what time can I drop off reserves until?"
Graduate Mobile Cart Reservation Policy
You are responsible for any belongings you choose to leave in the Moby.
ALL library materials stored in a Moby must be checked out to the occupant. Library staff frequently check Moby carts and will remove any items that are not checked out.
Do not leave any food or drinks inside of the Moby.
2016 Student Book Collecting Contest Winners
The winners of this year's student book collecting contest were announced at an awards ceremony in Rivera Library on May 24, 2016.
In the graduate category, Andrew Shaler won for California: The Long Nineteenth Century, a collection focused on Indian history in the Gold Rush era. Nicholas Dotson won the undergraduate category with Michael Jackson: The Components of a Legend.
This collection supports Shaler's research interests as a PhD candidate in the UCR history department. He has even had the chance to meet or work with some of the authors in his collection.
Dotson's personal interest was piqued by the King of Pop, and he collected books about MJ in an effort to learn more about this complicated public figure. Dotson's collection is on display in Rivera Library.
The Student Book Collecting Contest at the UCR Library was inaugurated in the academic year 2003-2004, in memory of Adam Repán Petko (1896-1995). Mr. Petko arrived in this country in 1912. He had a special interest in promoting literacy among his fellow immigrants, and he was particularly concerned with young children who had been denied a formal education in their native lands. The contest is funded through the generosity of Dr. Edward C. Petko, Adam Repán Petko’s son. Each contestant received a new book that will complement their collection courtesy of UC Press.
The purpose of this contest is to encourage students not just to read books, but to create their own personal libraries and book collections. A collection can cover any subject or topic, and collections need not consist of rare or expensive books. At the ceremony in May, all applicants had the opportunity to speak about their collections. Other entries ranged from science fiction by Isaac Asimov to field guides written by California naturalists.
Winners of the local contest are eligible to apply to the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, which offers a first-place prize of $2500. Previous UCR winners have gone on to place nationally. In 2013, Elias Serna, a UCR PhD candidate, won first prize in the national contest for his collection The Chicano Movement: Pocho Poems, Posters, Films, and Revolutionary Plans. In 2011, graduate student Sarah McCormick took the third prize for her collection Desert Dreams: The History of California's Coachella Valley.
Water Resources Collections & Archives
Located in: Orbach Science Library, Special Collections & University Archives
The Water Resources Collections & Archives (WRCA) acquires, preserves, and provides access to materials that document water-related issues throughout the United States and beyond, with a particular emphasis on issues affecting the state of California.
ESPARiTU presents “Corazón Abierto” at the University of California, Riverside
The ESPARiTU (Encuentros Student Participatory Action Research y Testimonios) research team has created an exhibit that highlights the Chicanx/Latinx experiences at the University of California, Riverside.
This exhibit will showcase the academic journeys of scholars from UCR, featuring their testimonies and materials that symbolize their experiences.
The concept of "corazón" (heart) is central to many of these shared stories, illustrating how participants have led and fostered connections on campus. The exhibit will launch with a reception that is open to the public, honoring the ESPARiTU co-researchers, who are all Chicanx/Latinx undergraduate scholars at UCR, alongside the project's principal investigator, Dr. Arlene Cano Matute and project partners.
The reception is co-sponsored by Chicano Student Programs, Undergraduate Education, and funded by the UC Office of the President Addressing Bias and Bigotry Grant.
| Event | ESPARiTU presents “Corazón Abierto” at the University of California, Riverside |
| Location | Tomás Rivera Library, first floor (to the left of the entrance) |
| Dates | Monday, May 5 - Sunday, May 11, 2025 |
| Hours | View this exhibit during the Library's normal operating hours. Monday - Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Please note: You can visit library.ucr.edu/hours for library operating hours. |
| 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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Manage Your Data
Managing your data is critical to the success of your research, grant-seeking, and publication efforts.
Before starting a new research project it is critical to develop a data management plan (DMP), which outlines your practices for collecting, organizing, backing up, and storing the data your research generates. Good data management will:
Alexander Street Press Streaming Video Trial
UCR Library is currently running a patron-driven acquisition pilot program for the expanded collection of Alexander Street Press streaming videos.
With Alexander Street Press videos, library users can create clips and playlists, quote directly from the video transcript, and discover new content for use in teaching and research.
With this resource, UCR Library can provide our patrons with access to high quality academic films available nowhere else. The collection includes more than 34,000 unique videos that span a broad range of subjects, with more than 7,000 exclusive titles that are offered only by Alexander Street.
Content spans many subject areas, including anthropology, counseling and therapy, business, documentary and feature film, education, history, fashion, music and dance, news and current affairs, and drama.
Publishers in the collection include Sony Pictures Classics, BroadwayHD, Milestone Films, BBC, Bloomberg, Canal+, CRM Learning, Discovery, CBS, HBO, Janus Films (Criterion Collection), Kantola, Medcom, National Geographic, NBC Universal, Opus Arte, Royal Anthropological Institute, First Run Features, and many more.
The trial runs until January 25, 2017. To access the trial, please visit: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/.
UCR Library encourages all users to share this link with their fellow UC Riverside students, faculty, and other researchers.
If you would like to provide feedback, please send your comments to Carla Arbagey, Electronic Resources Librarian, carlar@ucr.edu.
Digital Collections Commenting Policy
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