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UC Merced Alum Joins Research & Learning Services Author: Bronwen K. Maxson December 17, 2024 UC Merced Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Paulina Allende to the position of Learning Services Coordinator in the Research & Learning Services unit. She is an alum of UC Merced where she earned a bachelor’s in English literature and cultures with a minor in writing. |
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Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT) Now Available December 11, 2024 With the Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT), UC authors can search for a journal title to determine if there is full open access fee coverage or a discount. |
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Stressed Out by the Election? Political Scientists Explain Why and Offer Tips November 26, 2024 UC Merced Newsroom highlights panel sponsored by the UC Merced Library, Department of Political Science, Center for Analytic Political Engagement (CAPE) and Health Promotion. |
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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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