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Highlights for National Dairy Month Author: Sophia LaMonica June 17, 2022 June has been celebrated as National Dairy Month since 1937 to promote drinking milk and to stabilize the dairy demand when production was at a surplus. A search for "dairy" in UC Merced Library's California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) yields nearly 400 digitized resources documenting the state's history of research and development in the dairy industry. Annual narrative reports of county agents, milk flavor and production cost surveys, cow census records, and dairy industry newsletters provide a picture of how California's dairy boom came to be. |
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2021-2022 Carter Joseph Abrescy and Larry Kranich Library Award for Student Research Excellence Awardees Announced Author: Olivia Olivares May 16, 2022 This year, the Abrescy-Kranich Library Award was awarded to Brandon Cooper and Madelyn Lara, both Class of 2022. |
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New Awards for Regional Archives at UC Merced Library Author: Emily S. Lin May 14, 2022 In October 2021, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded UC Merced Library a grant from American Rescue Plan funds to support the California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) project. In April 2022, the NEH announced it would award a $750,000 Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant to UC Merced to fund a renovation project in the library that will expand its capacity to house archives and special collections documenting the Sierra Nevada and Central Valley regions. |
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Summer Library Hours May 9, 2022 Summer 2022 Library Hours Intersession #1 Hours: Monday, May 16, 2022 - Friday, May 20, 2022 Monday - Friday: 8 am - 4pm Closed Weekends Summer Hours: May 23, 2022 - August 12, 2022 Monday - Thursday: 7 am - 10 pm Friday: 7 am - 6pm Closed Weekends Intersession #2 Hours: Monday, August 15, 2022 - Tuesday, August 23, 2022 Monday - Friday: 8 am - 4pm Closed Weekends |
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NEH Grant Awarded to UC Merced for Sierra Nevada-Central Valley Archive in Library May 3, 2022 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the UC Merced Library in partnership with the Center for the Humanities a $750,000 Infrastructure & Capacity Building Challenge Grant. |
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Library Collaborative Work Rooms Receive Upgrades and Will Reopen After Year-Long Closure April 21, 2022 The Library Collaborative Workrooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors received technology and furniture upgrades. They will reopen April 25, 2022. |
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Coffee & Cookies Study Break for Finals! April 21, 2022 Need a study break? Join us in the Library for some coffee & cookies! |
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Cooperative Extension Firsts in Modoc County Author: Rebecca Gourevitch April 7, 2022 Additional material from the Modoc County, UC Cooperative Extension Records, part of the UC Cooperative Extension Archive at UC Merced, have been digitized and made available on Calisphere. Found in the collection are copies of Modoc County Ranch Roundup, a newsletter dedicated to Cooperative Extension activities in the region. |
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UC Merced Newsroom- Grant Saves Students Thousands of Dollars in Textbook Costs Author: Juan Flores March 10, 2022 The Zero Cost Course Materials Grant is a partnership between the UC Merced Library, Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning, and extra support from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. The grant program is projected to save over $276,000 in textbook costs. Read the full story by Juan Flores, UC Merced. |
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From the Mariposa County, UC Cooperative Extension Collection: The 1988 Beef Checkoff Author: Rebecca Gourevitch March 2, 2022 The California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) team digitized and placed online over one hundred items from the Mariposa County, UC Cooperative Extension collection including materials related to the 1988 Beef Checkoff referendum. |
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