On Saturday, April 20th, ProQuest’s Ebook Central and LibCentral will be unavailable from 9am to 11am Pacific Time due to security maintenance. Ebooks via these platforms may not be available during these times. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
On Sunday, April 14th at 7pm through 11:30pm Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause sporadic interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
The University of California and Cambridge University Press have entered into a transformative agreement that will advance the global shift toward an open access future for research.
The agreement is designed to maintain UC’s access to Cambridge’s journals, while also supporting open access publishing for UC authors. The partnership is UC’s first open access agreement with a major publisher and Cambridge’s first such deal in the Americas.
Calisphere continues to grow adding new collections providing insight into innovations in architecture, television, and more.
Last December, the UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum enabled harvesting of some digitized materials in its Architecture and Design Collection. One of the largest architectural archives, the AD&A’s collections include drawings, photographs, models, decorative objects, and furniture from Southern California architects and designers from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first century.
The Television Academy Foundation has also made available a collection of interviews with people who have made an impact on television. Lucy Lawless, LeVar Burton, George Takei, Barbara Walters and RuPaul are just a few of the 872 individuals whose personal stories provide a unique perspective on television history through The Interviews: An Oral History of Television collection.
Along with these noteworthy collections, Calisphere has also added over 6,800 items last month from 69 libraries, archives, and museums who participated in “California Revealed“, a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries digitize, preserve, and grant online access to archival materials that tell the fascinating stories of the state. Contributions from the Museum of Western Film History, Siskiyou County Museum, Napa County Historical Society, and many more have been added and will be added to Calisphere over the coming months.
On Saturday, April 6th from 4:30am to 6am Pacific Time, the Fulcrum platform for ACLS Humanities eBooks will be unavailable while scheduled maintenance takes place. HEB eBooks may not be accessible during this time frame. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
America’s Historical Newspapers via Readex are now available with enhanced interfaces. These enhancements are available for a number of databases including Early American Newspapers Series 1 and 2, African American Newspapers, California Historical Newspapers and Hispanic American Newspapers. Patrons will still have the option of using the previous interface via a link in the banner at the top of each database’s homepage through May 2019.
New features available in the redesigned interface include enhanced database selection, the ability to show fewer or more results per page, and citations instantly created and exported in all major formats. Upcoming enhancements will include an enhanced mapping function and a My Collection Tools addition.
Check out the new interfaces via the above links or the Library’s A-Z database listings.
Please join us to celebrate the recipients of the 2019 Carter Joseph Abrescy and Larry Kranich Library Award for Student Research Excellence:
Friday, April 5, 2019
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
KL 355
Light refreshments will be provided.
The Abrescy and Kranich Library Award for Student Research Excellence was established in 2017 to recognize undergraduate students who demonstrate the effective use of library and information resources, an understanding of the research process, and growth in research practices.
The UC Merced Library organized a two-day Software Carpentry workshop during Spring Break that covered Unix, Git, and Python. The workshop was given by two excellent instructors, Kate Barron (Data Services Librarian at San Jose State University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Library) and Avishek Kumar (Research/Data Scientist at the University of Chicago's Center for Data Science and Public Policy).
The helpers, those who volunteer to attend Carpentry workshops to assist and answer students' questions, are equally valuable! We would like to thank Matthias Bussonier (Research Facilitator at UC Merced and co-developer of Project Jupyter), Sarvani Chadalapaka (High Performance Computing Administrator at UC Merced), Akshay Paropkari (graduate student in Quantitative and Systems Biology), and Jasper Toscani Field (another graduate student in Quantitative and Systems Biology).
Thanks additionally to our dedicated library staff who handled catering, travel, and IT support, and finally, thanks to all of our attendees! We hope you enjoyed this Software Carpentry workshop.
For information about upcoming Carpentries workshops, check out our page. You can also sign up to be trained as an official Carpentries instructor or add your name to a list of potential helpers.
UC Merced community members are invited to participate in the Living Library on Tuesday, April 9th from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in KL 355. The Living Library is a free, interactive event, open to all students, staff, and faculty.
A Living Library is a library of people available to be “checked out” for a 20-minute conversation. The event is free, interactive, and open to all UC Merced students, staff, and faculty. Will you join us in this opportunity to have authentic conversations, form deeper understandings of one another, and build connections across campus?
Date: Tuesday, April 9th
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: KL 355
As part of the Black Migrants to the Central Valley 1960-1964 exhibit, the UC Merced Library and UC Merced Center for the Humanities are hosting exhibit photographer Ernest Lowe and film director Laurie Coyle for an event exploring the organizing struggles of migrant farmworkers in the 1960s.
Please join us for a screening of the documentary Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno, followed by a panel discussion with Laurie Coyle and Ernest Lowe.
Tuesday April 2, 2019
4:30 p.m. - Film Screening
5:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion
COB2 - Room 295 (Digital Humanities Lab)
Light refreshments will be served.
Questions? Contact Elizabeth Salmon at esalmon@ucmerced.edu.
Migrant mother Maria Moreno became the first farmworker woman in America to be hired as a union organizer. Maria talks to Okie farmworkers who were Dust Bowl migrants during the Great Depression.
Credit: © 1978 George Ballis/Take Stock
Sponsored by the UC Merced Library, the Center for the Humanities, the Office of the Chancellor and California Humanities.
Black Migrants to the Central Valley, 1960-1964 is an original exhibit of the Fresno Art Museum. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.
Major funding for Adios Amor was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, California Humanities and Latino Public Broadcasting.
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