On Wednesday evening, August 12th ProQuest will be performing critical maintenance to correct a load balance error from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. This will impact databases on the ProQuest platform such as ProQuest Congressional and Literature Online (LION).
Where’s all the furniture?
You may have noticed some empty spaces in the Library and asked yourself, wasn’t there a couch here? And a chair over there? Where is all the furniture?
In July, the Library sent 30 pieces of furniture to our partners Tangram Interiors in Fresno, CA to be reupholstered and repaired. This is a result of a furniture condition inventory conducted earlier this year. We identified a total of 50 damaged pieces; the remaining 20 pieces are slated for repair next summer.
Most of our furniture has been around since the opening of UC Merced. Our custodial team does a wonderful job keeping the furniture looking like new, but after 10 years, some of our pieces were showing their age. Before sending off the furniture, the Library considered the overall impact of purchasing replacement pieces versus the efforts of reupholstery and repair.
The furniture will be back in place for the start of the fall semester.
On Saturday, August 8th ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability of its databases products. The maintenance window is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM Pacific Time and will last for eight (8) hours. This will impact databases on the ProQuest platform such as RefWorks, EconLit, Sociological Abstracts and PsycInfo.
UC Merced Library is pleased to welcome Mr. Haipeng Li as University Librarian. Mr. Li has extensive experience in academic libraries and is actively involved in the broader library profession.
He most recently held the position of University Librarian at Hong Kong Baptist University and joined our campus June 22nd. Previously he served as Associate Director and Acting Head of Access Services at the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey and Reference Librarian at Oberlin College in Ohio, University of Arizona and Arizona State University.
His current activities in professional library organizations include serving on the Council of American Library Association (ALA) and the Executive Committee of the International Relations Round Table (IRRT). He has made significant contributions to the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) first as President (2006-2007) and then as Executive Director (2008-2013). In addition, Mr. Li has been promoting collaboration and exchange between libraries in China and the United States. Recently he served as chair of the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) in Hong Kong and as President of the Hong Kong Library Association (HKLA) 2012-2013.
His research areas include information literacy, library management and diversity, leadership development, international librarianship and global collaboration. He is frequently invited to speak at library events and serves as a consultant for several academic libraries in China and the U.S.
Our library and campus community warmly welcomes Mr. Li to UC Merced.
On July 1, 2015, EBL will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance. Maintenance is scheduled from 2:00pm – 8:00pm. During this time, EBL resources and ebooks will not be available.
The library has launched a new website and wishes to thank our library staff and University Communications for their roles in making this a reality.
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We welcome your feedback and look forward to continuing to improve your online experience as your access library resources, services, and space.
The library welcomes new additions to our library staff. Heather Wagner and Latasha Means both started June 1.
Heather’s previous positions and education are closely connected to her upcoming work in Digital Assets as the Digitization Coordinator. She has worked in the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University as a Digitization Production Specialist and as an Audiovisual Specialist, as a Photo Archivist at Hewlett-Packard, and most recently in the library at the Los Banos campus of Merced College. She has a certificate in Library Technology from Foothill College, was a Radio, Television and Film major at San Jose State, and completed the Western Archives Institute. She has a keen interest in the history and preservation of photography, moving images and digital media. If you have any questions about early Soviet or French New Wave film she is your person. Her position at UC Merced includes overseeing the Supplemental Course Resources program and working on digitization projects.
Latasha has a strong connection with UC Merced. She graduated with honors from UC Merced in 2012, receiving her B.A. in literature and cultures. During Latasha’s undergraduate career, she worked in UC Merced Library’s Access Services, Exhibits, and Administrative Services areas and quickly grew to admire and appreciate the library’s role in education. Following graduation, she worked in UC Merced’s Merritt Writing Program and also Merced College’s Library. Latasha has an immense love for books, writing, and education. She has proudly published, including research on electroconvulsive therapy and how it correlates with second wave feminism and literature.Ask her about feminist poetry and/or YA literature, and she will tell you more than you care to know. Latasha is now the Technical Services Coordinator at UC Merced managing the library’s physical collection.
We are delighted to have both of them join our staff. Welcome Heather and Latasha!
Due to the Fourth of July holiday, the library is closed July 3-5. We will reopen at 7 a.m. on Monday, July 6.
Each summer students new to UC Merced participate in one of 10 campus orientations. This year students will be introduced to the library’s services and space through a humorous video similar in style to the Delta Airline safety videos. By combining a friendly librarian with background surprises, students will learn how the library can support their academic success. Filming took place in early June with the video to be released in July 2015.
Discover how UC Libraries bring great value to the UC system by collaboratively acquiring resources and the ongoing challenges associated with the costs of information by viewing “Challenges to Academic Libraries.” This video is one in a series titled, "Conversations: Information, Research and Society."
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