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Coffee & Cookies is Back for our Bobcats! November 18, 2024 The Library staff wishes all students good luck on final exams and projects. We invite you to stop by for coffee, hot chocolate, and cookies! |
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Library Highlights the Life of Poet Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel during American Archives Month Author: Emily Lin November 8, 2024 The Library hosted a program last week with Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel’s biographer, Betty Blanks. A close friend and “surrogate daughter” of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Ms. Blanks shared a history with the poet as a child of Dust Bowl migrants. “Wilma and I were like family. When I first met her, the sound of her voice was so familiar to me. I recognized the people in her poems. She spoke about back home with the same longing that I had always heard from the elders in my own family,” said Blanks. “I was born right here in the Valley, in Visalia. But I recognized Wilma’s longing for that old ‘home,’ because I always heard that same deep longing expressed by my own family.” Her recent work, Pick Up Your Name and Write: The Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, begins with McDaniel’s move from Oklahoma to escape starvation during the Great Depression, and describes the “affliction” by which the poet felt compelled to express her... |
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Now Accepting Applications for Student Research Excellence Award November 8, 2024 We are kicking off the Carter Joseph Abrescy and Larry Kranich Library Award for Student Research Excellence for 2024-2025 with a call for applications. |
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Library Hours Update November 5, 2024 We are happy to announce that Library hours will be fully restored to 2023-2024 levels in spring 2025 with funding from the Provost’s Office. |
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We're Hiring a Technical Services Coordinator November 5, 2024 We're recruiting for a Technical Services Coordinator who will acquire, catalog, and process print and media and ensure that these materials are accessible in our online discovery tool. |
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Merced Native Gains Hands-On Archives Experience November 4, 2024 Tyler McGurk, currently pursuing a Master's degree in Library and Information Science, learned fundamental skills and strategies as an intern in the Library's Archives & Special Collections this summer. |
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Open Scholarship featured at Reception October 29, 2024 We celebrated International Open Access Week with a reception co-sponsored with UC Merced’s Academic Personnel Office (APO) on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. Faculty and librarians attended and examples of faculty’s contributions to open scholarship were featured. |
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Upcoming Event: Making Sense of the Election & Staying Well October 17, 2024 This panel highlights faculty research that can help us make sense of the current political environment. It will provide strategies for managing stress and coping with emotions, evaluating political rhetoric, navigating puzzling polarization, and sifting through the information landscape. |
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Pick Up Your Name and Write: The Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, with author Betty Blanks October 1, 2024 Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Tulare Poet Laureate, was the first woman in California to be honored with a Literary Landmark. Join us for a talk and reading by McDaniel’s longtime friend and biographer, Betty Blanks. |
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Faculty Author Series Talk: Samantha Tetangco Ocena September 27, 2024 Please join us for an author talk featuring Associate Teaching Professor in Global Arts, Media & Writing Studies Samantha Tetangco Ocena. |
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