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June 2, 2015


Library & Campus Video Production Team Films New Student Orientation Video

Overdue Book Amnesty Week

March 31, 2015


April 12, 2015


In honor of National Library Week, UC Merced Library is celebrating our first ever Amnesty Week! For one week only, all fees will be waived on overdue items that are returned undamaged between Sunday, April 12- Saturday, April 18th, 2015. Even Interlibrary Loan books! Items can be dropped off at our second floor Services Desk or in the Library book drops.

The Americas Underground: Where our Past and Present Meet in the Dark

March 31, 2015


March 31, 2015


The Americas Underground is a new exhibit in the library that explores the various ways in which caves, rockshelters, mines, and other uses of the ‘underground’ have been perceived across the Americas. Running through April 30, 2015, the exhibit demonstrates how caves have provided spaces for ritual and social practices throughout history, while practices such as archaeology, mining, caving, and tourism have emerged in different areas in different times and been slowly added to the repertoire. Photography, cultural objects and artifacts collected from ancient and modern contexts by UC Merced scholars and California residents demonstrate how modern practices intersect and overlap with past practices in interesting, but sometimes conflicting ways.

The exhibit has been organized by Marieka Arksey, Ph.D. Student in SSHA at UC Merced. It is made possible with generous assistance and funding from the following: UC Merced’s Center for Humanities, UC Merced Library, California State...

Louis and Doris Gonella: The Gonella Discovery Room
Louis and Doris Gonella


November 22, 2004


As a tribute to her husband after he passed away in 2001, Doris Gonella created the Louis P. Gonella Memorial Scholarship at UC Merced. Now she has donated additional funds to create the Louis P. Gonella and Doris M. Gonella Discovery Room in the Kolligian Library.

Krishna and Suma Thondapu
Krishna and Suma Thondapu


October 5, 2001


The Thondapu family of Merced has committed an endowed chair and spearheaded a major fund-raising campaign to purchase books for the University of California, Merced.

Leo & Dottie Kolligian in white script
Leo and Dottie Kolligian


June 11, 2001


One of the three initial buildings on the University of California, Merced campus will be named in honor of Leo Kolligian, a Fresno native and former University of California Regent, and his late wife, Dottie.

The Kashian Family
The Kashian Family


June 11, 2001


The first floor of the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library, one of the first buildings to be constructed on the new campus, will be named for Ed and Jeanne Kashian in recognition of the leadership and support that the Kashians have directed to UC Merced.

Agriculture in California
Author: Lisa Vallen

February 28, 2017



Last month, UC Cooperative Extension Archivist, Lisa Vallen, covered the purpose and importance of the UC Cooperative Extension Archives. In this new post, she gives you an overview of agriculture in California and then focuses in on the three counties she is working with: Merced, Ventura, and Humboldt.

Preserving 100 Years of Agricultural Resources: Creating the UC Cooperative Extension Archive
Author: Lisa Vallen

January 26, 2017



Welcome to the UC Cooperative Extension Archive blog. My name is Lisa Vallen, I am the UC Cooperative Extension Project Archivist. I realize that not everyone is familiar with Cooperative Extension, so for this first post I’m going fill everyone in on the who, what, when, where and why of this special project!

HathiTrust Print Disabilities Access Update

April 26, 2016



HathiTrust Digital Library print disability access has been significantly updated to allow access to all copyrighted material in HathiTrust for students, staff and faculty with visual impairments or print disabilities.

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