Library News

August 11, 2016

Archivist Lisa Vallen has joined the UC Merced Library to work with UC Cooperative Extension Offices in Merced, Ventura, and Humboldt to assess, preserve, and provide access to these records and materials.

Lisa has her Masters of Science in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a certificate in special collections. While at the University of Illinois, Lisa helped preserve their physical collection, digitized theses and dissertations, and processed part of the H.G. Wells Collection. She has her BA in art history and politics from Lake Forest College. Lisa spent the summer of 2015 studying French Museology at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris.

Lisa is a co-creater of the Mushiboshi Project, where they are researching ethnographic preservation practices and looking at how libraries can apply these low tech options to their own stewardship and promote their use to the general public.

July 21, 2016

ProQuest EBL and Ebook Central platforms will be unavailable for from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Saturday, July 23, 2016 for scheduled maintenance. EBL ebooks may not be available during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

July 14, 2016

UCOP’s UC Libraries Digital Collection Project is a winner of the 2016 Larry L. Sautter Golden Award for enabling all UC libraries to create, manage, and make accessible to the public hundreds of thousands of digital assets ranging from historical records and maps to photographs and films. Services include a shared digital asset management system that all campus libraries may use, a tool to aggregate and index digital content across collections, and the Calisphere website that allows the public to explore UC’s archival treasures.
The annual award, sponsored by the UC Information Technology Leadership Council, recognizes collaborative innovations in IT that advance the university’s missions of teaching, research, and public service, and encourages collaboration and solution sharing across the UC system.

June 24, 2016

The library is pleased to welcome Instruction Librarian Lindsay Davis to its staff. Lindsay started on June 1st. She comes to UC Merced from Merced College’s Los Banos Campus Library. She has also held roles at the CSU Stanislaus University Library, Stanislaus County Library, and the Library of Congress. She earned a Masters of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and a BA in history from CSU Stanislaus. As a first generation college student and daughter of an immigrant, she understands how intimidating academic libraries can be for brand-new students. She hopes to help students feel comfortable asking for research assistance and learn research skills that will help them write those term papers and think more critically about information outside the classroom, too. Lindsay’s primary role at UC Merced is teaching research skills in classes, developing instructional materials and tools, and assisting students in research consultations whether in-person or...