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University Librarian Haipeng Li Receives Equality Award from the American Library Association Author: Breanna Wright April 21, 2017 The 2017 American Library Association (ALA) Equality Award is awarded to Haipeng Li, University Librarian at UC Merced. This annual award honors an individual or group for their outstanding contributions toward promoting equality in the library profession. The 2017 Equality Award jury commented that “that throughout his career, Mr. Li has championed equality within the profession, to library users, and on a global level as well.” The jury highlights Li’s work as co-chair of the second National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC), and past presidency of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA). They also note his leadership in global initiatives such as the US-China library collaboration program, “Think Globally, Act Globally.” A nominator said of Li, “… I have seen his engagement and passion for opening the world of libraries and librarianship to people from diverse backgrounds, through his “day jobs” as well as his activities at national and... |
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Introducing the UC-eLinks Sidebar April 20, 2017 UC-eLinks has a new feature: the DirectLink sidebar. The sidebar appears on the right side of the screen while the full text appears on the left side of screen. CDL went live with the DirectLink sidebar on April 17, 2017. |
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Library Debuts New Exhibit, Columbian Mammoth Bones Author: Breanna Wright April 17, 2017 In 2012, Columbian mammoth bones and more than 1,500 other fossils from the Pleistocene epoch were discovered by Caltrans workers in Merced County. Under the direction of Professor Mark Aldenderfer, the former dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, UC Merced accepted the fossils, which are now part of a permanent display to ensure they remained local and accessible to researchers and the public. The exhibit, on the second floor of the UC Merced Library near the services desk, features a juvenile mammoth skull and the skull, femur and tusk of a mammoth estimated to be 49 years old at the time of death. |
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Information Stations at Be Aware Exhibit April 17, 2017 Take a few minutes to visit our three information stations. Share your favorite news sources and increase your news savvy. Each tabling event will be held at the Be Aware: Evaluate Your News Evaluation exhibit, near the Library’s 2nd floor book stacks. |
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UC Merced Library to Digitize AIDS Archive through NEH Award Author: Breanna Wright April 17, 2017 The Archives and Special Collections department of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Library, in collaboration with the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society, has been awarded a $315,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In collaboration, UC Merced Library’s Digital Assets Unit, which has established a reputation for digitizing information resources, will be responsible for digitizing the 49 archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area, making them available to the public online. |
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Spring Refworks Workshops March 28, 2017 Prepare for this academic season of papers and projects by upping your game with Refworks -- a citation manager. Discover how to make this tool work for you. In this 50 minute workshop, you will learn how to capture citations and correctly cite them in the style you need. Please RSVP to let us know you are attending. Thursday, April 6th 12:30 p.m. to 1:20p.m. - Instructor: Elizabeth Salmon Thursday, April 6th 3:30 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. – Instructor: Lindsay Davis Friday, April 7th 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Instructor: Joe Ameen Friday, April 7th 12:30 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. – Instructor: Joe AmeenAll workshops located in KL 371.
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AP Images is moving to EBSCOhost March 28, 2017 The Associated Press’s AP Images Collection, one of the world’s largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery with more than twelve million photographs, will be hosted via EBSCOhost by March 29th. Though the content of AP Images won’t change, the search experience will use existing EBSCOhost parameters and be supported by all of the latest web browsers. To access images from 1826 to present with more than 3,500 additional photographs added daily, use the Library’s Database Collection or click here. |
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Library Receives Donation of 2,200 Books March 6, 2017 The Library has received a gift of 2,200 books from the personal library of Keith L. Nelson, emeritus professor of history at UC Irvine. The books are mainly about American and European history with a focus on international relations, arms control and globalization. The donated books are being cataloged and added to the library’s collection. This story is featured in the latest issue of Panorama.
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Oxford Journals move to new platform, Oxford Academic March 2, 2017 Recently, Oxford University Press began transitioning all OUP Journals to the new Oxford Academic platform; on February 1st that all journal content migration was complete. In addition to journals, Oxford Academic will eventually house the majority of Oxford’s digital book and online product content. |
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Be Aware: Elevate Your News Evaluation Author: Breanna Wright March 1, 2017 The UC Merced Library is displaying an exhibit called Be Aware: Elevate Your News Evaluation on the 2nd floor. The exhibit has both physical and digital components. Librarians were inspired to create an exhibit after viewing a graphic on social media that placed news sources on a graph, with both X and Y axes, to show quality and bias. The legitimacy of news continues to be a hot topic in 2017. As news consumers, the onus is ultimately on us to seek out accurate news reporting and to be aware of multiple perspectives. Through the exhibit, we aim to generate conversation about news sources and news evaluation. We hope our viewers will: think more deeply about their own evaluation and consumption of news media sources. become increasingly aware of the range of news sources available -- both in quality and perspective. become more knowledgeable about news sources and news type. recognize that... |
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