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MIT Press Direct eBooks

Wed, September 25, 2019 11:45 AM

UC campuses now have access to MIT Press Direct eBooks, a broad range of books from MIT Press’ front- and backlist publications. Almost 3,000 ebooks will be available by the end of 2019, DRM-free (users may print and download PDFs by chapter) with unlimited simultaneous user access. Subject coverage includes titles in the arts and architecture, biomedical sciences, business, digital humanities and new media, economics, education, engineering, environmental science, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, and more.

Check them out here.

Congressman Costa Visits the CARA Project

Wed, August 28, 2019 2:50 PM

Author:

Donald Barclay

August 27, 2019 was a remarkable day at UC Merced. Our Interim Chancellor Nathan Brostrom led 2400 new students across the Scholars Lane Bridge and through the Beginnings sculpture. In the Library, over 100 students and faculty joined us as we celebrated the official re-opening of our refurnished fourth floor. And Congressman Jim Costa paid a visit to the Library’s Digital Curation and Scholarship Center to see for himself the work we are doing on CARA, the California Agricultural Resources Archive.

Costa views items from the archives

As the representative to the U.S. Congress for a heavily agricultural district, Congressman Costa expressed his keen interest in, and strong support for, CARA. Among the items he viewed were the first annual report of the county agent of Merced (1917) and the narrative report of 1918 documenting the formation of the irrigation district, fire protection districts, as well as a campaign to eliminate jackrabbits in the county.

Congressman Costa was accompanied by District Representative Gabe Hulbert (UC Merced, Class of 2018).

On the day following his visit, Congressman Costa’s Facebook page included the following statement:

I had a fascinating visit at the UC Merced library where they are currently digitizing thousands of Valley agriculture documents dating back to 1913. With funding from a grant from the National Archives, they plan to save nearly 180,000 pages of reports and 2,000 photos!

We were delighted to host Congressman Costa and extend an invitation to have other Central Valley leaders in politics and agriculture pay us a visit.

Fourth Floor Library Renovation

Fri, September 20, 2019 8:50 AM

The library's 4th floor opened fall 2019 and offers students an additional 232 seats for individual study with AC and USB power. Several seating configurations are available but all are intended to promote quiet study space. The project was made possible with funding from multiple campus partners. View the full story for details and images of this newly renovated space.

Zero - Cost Course Materials Grant Information Session for Faculty

Fri, March 19, 2021 4:20 PM

Co-Sponsored by UC Merced Library / Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning

Zero-Cost Course Materials Information Session for Faculty

This session will provide information about:

what materials qualify as zero-cost
tools and support for locating open educational resources
grant details
how to reduce your textbook and learning costs to $0

Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Location: Zoom

Registration is not required to attend.

Hosted by: Elizabeth Salmon, Research Services Librarian- UC Merced Library

Faculty Author Series: Kevin Dawson

Mon, September 16, 2019 4:05 PM

Please join us for an author talk featuring Associate Professor Kevin Dawson. Dawson's book, Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora, winner of the Lapidus Center's 2019 Harriet Tubman Prize, explores the prowess and culture of West Africans, who took these skills with them into New World slavery, and used them to shape their lives in ways that are often overlooked.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

KL 362

12:00 - 1:00pm

Get more details on Kevin Dawson's book and register to attend.

Readex AllSearch

Fri, September 13, 2019 1:15 PM

UC Merced patrons now have access to Readex AllSearch, a fully cross-searchable platform for Readex content. AllSearch creates the ability to search across all of UCM’s Readex collections at once, or to limit a search to specific collections. By consolidating all document types behind a single search box—books, newspapers, pamphlets, government documents, and others—Readex AllSearch makes research sessions more precise and enhances document discovery.

Early English Books Online is Moving to ProQuest

Thu, September 5, 2019 2:20 PM

Beginning August 22^nd, Early English Books Online is migrating from its former Chadwyck-Healey interface to the newly-enhanced ProQuest Platform. On this new platform, Early English Books Online will be more discoverable as users will be able to cross-search its content with scholarly journals, news, historical documents and other sources. An overlap period where both platforms are available will continue through September 15, 2019. As of Monday, September 16, 2019, ProQuest will be the sole source for UC’s subscription to Early English Books Online.