OCLC is currently experiencing system issues that may affect a variety of our services, which they are working to correct. We apologize for the possible interruption to our patrons and hope for a speedy resolution.
On Friday, July 29th at 11pm to Saturday, July 30th at 3am PDT, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may result in intermittent interruptions of online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope these interruptions will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
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.
On Friday, July 22nd at 11:30pm to Saturday, July 23rd at 11pm PDT, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may result in intermittent interruptions of online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope these interruptions will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Visit our new book display located on the second floor right across from the elevators. This month, we are featuring crime, mystery, and psychological thrillers to get your heart racing! Stop by and select a book for summer reading.
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.
Campus IT has scheduled an Extreme Networks Cores Logical Cutover to NGN starting this Friday July 8th through Monday early morning on July 11th, with downtime windows occurring at 7pm-3am each day. Many systems may experience 15 minute network outages and/or performance degradation during these times, which may possibly affect access to Library resources as well. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope these interruptions will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Denice Sawatzky has been Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Coordinator at UC Merced since 2005. Before coming to UC Merced she worked at UC Riverside and UC Santa Cruz. She brought extensive experience to her position, establishing ILL services at our campus. Our library users have benefited from Denice’s information-finding expertise combined with her a love of sleuthing. Denice announced earlier this year that she was going to retire. Her last day is June 29th just a few weeks short of 29 years working in UC Libraries. We wish Denice the best in her retirement and will miss her many contributions and great sense of humor.
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 through the Library’s chat service.
On Friday June 24th between 3:00pm and 7:00pm (PDT), Taylor and Francis Online, BioOne Complete and Annual Reviews will be unavailable due to database maintenance at their websites. Content available through these providers may be inaccessible during this time frame. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope these interruptions will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
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