Before you leave for summer break, here is a summary of how the upcoming transition to UC Library Search on July 27, 2021 will affect you. UC Library Search will replace the local UCR catalog and Melvyl as the unified UC-wide search tool, allowing you to discover the collections of all 10 campuses’ libraries in...

In years past, the UCR Library would host a Student Employee and Staff Appreciation Picnic in May to honor the people whose work serves and supports the UC Riverside community. Due to the continuing campuswide COVID-19 closure, we were not able to hold the celebration again this year. Still, we would like to recognize and...

The UCR Library plans to offer limited in-person services for UCR affiliates during summer 2021, even as the campus continues remote instruction for the summer sessions. Starting June 21, 2021, UC faculty, students, and staff will be able to: Make an appointment for in-person use with Special Collections and University Archives. Access the microforms collection...

Beginning Mon. May 24, patrons can return UCR Library resources quickly and conveniently, without needing to pay for parking. The UCR Library has installed a new drive-up book return that is clearly visible from West Campus Drive on the south end of Lot 1, near the blue emergency call box. When the library launched its...

On Thursday, June 17, the UCR Library will broadcast the next in its series, Faculty Profiles in Research, Art and Innovation. The panel discussion, “ Scholars of Future-Past(s): Speculative Fictions, Pedagogy, and the Critical Archive,” will explore afrofuturism and expanding the conversation regarding using comics and graphic novels as an effective medium to communicate their...

The UCR Library remains committed to supporting our students as they prepare to take their spring quarter final exams. This is the reason why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief (FWSR) event series. This quarter, like this past fall and winter quarter, we took a different approach due to the continuing campuswide COVID-19 closure...

Born in 1954 at March Air Force Base, Riverside native Craig “Spike” Decker has been a hustler and natural promoter for as long as he can remember. Decker and a childhood friend named Gerald once made up a carnival for neighborhood kids. “We’d ride around on our bicycles and promote it,” he explained. “We’d make...

The UCR Library wishes to congratulate Deputy University Librarian Ann Frenkel on her upcoming retirement in June 2021. In 2006, Ann Frenkel joined the UCR Library as the Assistant University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services (later promoted to Associate University Librarian), along with her husband, Gwido Zlatkes, who became a librarian first in Special...

UC Library Search will replace Melvyl on July 27, 2021. What do you need to do to prepare for this change? How can you learn how to use UC Library Search? UC Library Search is user-friendly and will strongly resemble the discovery portal you have been using for the last three years. Think of it...

The UCR Library has recently acquired access to the digital archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS). This archive completes the library’s collection of digital archives from Wiley, which includes the New York Academy of Sciences, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the Royal College of Physicians, and...

Please be advised that the UCR Library catalog will be down over the Memorial Day weekend, from May 29 to 30, 2021, for data migration. Please expect a system downtime of up to 24 hours, from Saturday, May 29 at 6:00 p.m. to Sunday, May 30 at 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). During this temporary outage...

As one of the largest public university systems in the world, the University of California holds a vast collection of resources in its libraries. However, until now, each campus library used its own catalog, making it difficult for patrons to find items held at other campuses without using a separate search tool. Beginning July 27...

Sandy Enriquez, Special Collections Public Services, Outreach & Community Engagement Librarian, was awarded a highly competitive fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program will only invite 45 fellows over a six-year period, with aims to advance multicultural collections through innovative and inclusive curatorial practice and leadership among fellows who either identify with diverse...

On Monday, Mar. 29, library employees gathered virtually to celebrate the life and enduring contributions of Christina Cicchetti, a UCR librarian for the past 14 years, most recently the Social Sciences Teaching Librarian. Christina passed away on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021 from complications related to COVID-19. In 2007, Christina joined the UCR Library as an...

Overdrive is an e-book platform that offers UCR Library patrons access to popular titles – the sort of books you might find in your local public library. Our growing collection from Overdrive includes leisure reading, children’s books, and science fiction and fantasy titles. We are especially excited to offer many of these e-books as part...

Performing arts students and faculty at UCR can now access more than 1,200 resources thanks to the library’s new subscription to DigitalTheatre+. The world’s leading platform for digital performing arts, Digital Theatre+ features videos, study guides, teaching tools, and reference and research materials including backstage insights, practitioner interviews, written analysis, and more than 450 productions...

After more than two years of negotiations, this morning the University of California announced a transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This successful outcome is the result of UC’s faculty, librarians and university leadership coming together to stand firm on our goals of making UC research freely available to all...

Effective March 10, 2021, UC authors can make their research freely available for anyone to read through three new transformative open access publishing agreements with The Royal Society journals, Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), and The Company of Biologists (CoB). These new, cost-neutral agreements will apply retrospectively to articles accepted after January 1, 2021 and will...

UC Library Search will replace Melvyl as the UC-wide library discovery tool on July 27, 2021. It will be directly accessible from the local UCR Library website. Melvyl debuted in 1981, before most of our current students (and some faculty) were born. Melvyl revolutionized the UC Library system, allowing researchers to find books at other...

The UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere for our students, as final exams can breed a lot of stress -- not to mention the added pressures and isolation they experience during a pandemic. This is the reason why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief (FWSR) event series: to serve and support...