On Saturday, February 3rd at 11pm through Sunday, February 4th at 3am PDT, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may make online catalog services briefly unavailable to our patrons. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
On Wednesday, January 31st from 9pm until 10:30pm PDT, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may make online catalog services briefly unavailable to our patrons. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
An ongoing effort to collect, digitally preserve and share 100 years of historical records by the UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) has earned the UC Merced Library a more than $300,000 grant.
“We’re extremely proud to be able to further the work already begun on the UCCE project,” UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland said. “Our library is producing a collection that demonstrates the organization’s lasting effects on the state, the work it has done in the past and its potential for the future.”
The work is especially relevant to the San Joaquin Valley, said Emily Lin, the UC Merced Library’s head of Digital Curation and Scholarship.
“We have a lot of archives and historic records based around urban centers, but we haven’t been collecting the records of rural California in any systematic way,” she said. “But rural California has had an incredible influence on the state’s history. California was transformed by agriculture over the past century.”
The Archivist of the United States approved the $308,900 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for “A Century of Impact: Documenting the Work of the Cooperative Extension in California's Counties.” The three-year project will begin in the summer after Lin and others hire a group of undergraduate students to help with the work. Additionally, the project will be part of an informational booth at the World Ag Expo in February in Tulare — UC Merced’s first appearance at the exposition, which draws more than 100,000 people from all over the world.
Read the full article in the Newsroom.
Beginning Saturday, January 27th at 10pm through Sunday, January 28th at 3am PDT, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may make online catalog services briefly unavailable to our patrons. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Beginning on Saturday, January 27th at 7pm through Sunday, January 28th at 3am, ProQuest will be conducting maintenance to upgrade infrastructure, enhance security, and maintain reliability of its products. During this 8-hour window, some ProQuest products like ProQuest databases will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Your librarians are hosting a suite of workshops to help you expand your toolkit for success. The workshops range from introductory research skills to digital citizenship. Whether you need some help getting started with your research or you want to expand your knowledge, there's something here for everyone.
Most workshops will be offered multiples times throughout the semester and range from 20 to 50 minutes. All workshops are created and instructed by your UC Merced librarians.
Click on the date next to the workshop title for the workshop description and to register. You can also view all spring 2018 workshops here.
View/download the workshop poster here.
Web Evaluation & News Sources Series
| Be Your Own Web Fact Checker | Feb 6 | April 2 |
| Know & Evaluate Your News Source | Feb 7 | April 3 |
| Find News Sources with Library Databases | Feb 8 | April 4 |
Research Starters Series
| Start Your Search Here: Using Academic Search Complete | March 15 | March 20 | April 19 | April 24 |
| Understanding MLA 8th Edition | March 15 | March 21 | April 24 |
| Jump Into the Deep Web: Locate the Best Databases for Your Research | March 16 | April 19 | April 23 |
| Crafting a Search: Three Strategies | March 16 | March 20 | April 20 | April 25 |
| Locating Scholarly Articles & Understanding Peer Review | March 19 | April 23 | April 25 |
| The Big Picture: APA Basics | March 19 | March 21 | April 20 |
Databases & Search Tools
| Nexis Uni | Feb 22 | March 16 |
| SAGE Research Methods | Feb 22 | March 9 |
| Wikipedia 101 | March 8 |
| Finding Articles with Google Scholar | March 14 |
| Working with Images Responsibly | April 19 |
Managing Information
| RefWorks for Grad Students | Feb 6 |
| RefWorks Workshop | Feb 16 | March 2 | March 23 |
| File Management Workshop | Feb 9 | Feb 20 |
Digital Citizenship
| Digital Identity & Privacy | Feb 6 |
| Managing Your Online Academic Identity | April 17 |
Special Research Topics
| Finding & Evaluating Government Statistics | March 15 |
| Finding Health Information Online | April 4 |
Open Access
| Understanding the UC Open Access Policies | May 22 |
| Open Access Publishing / Creative Commons / eScholarship | May 22 |
For workshop descriptions and to register, click here.
Professor Nicola Lercari is leading his students on a tour of Palenque, the ancient Mesoamerican city that flourished at the peak of Maya civilization. They’re exploring the altar atop the Temple of the Cross, inspecting it from all angles and scrutinizing every detail.
But they’re not in Mexico. Lercari and his students are on the second floor of the UC Merced Library, standing before a triptych of high-definition monitors, which they view through 3-D glasses. Lercari navigates the first-person, 360-degree panoramic tour using an Xbox controller. Passers-by stop to ask questions.
“It’s a new class,” explains teaching assistant Anais Guillem. “World Heritage 110: 3-D Modeling Cultural Heritage. And this is the LibraryCAVE.”
The LibraryCAVE is a smaller version of UC Merced’s Wide-Area Visualization Environment (WAVE) system, a 20-screen VR multiplex that allows researchers to navigate interactive 3-D renderings of complex structures. The WAVE is a powerful tool that can be used to explore ancient ruins or visualize the inner structure of the brain.
With only three screens, the LibraryCAVE is more compact but no less impressive. It can do much of what the WAVE does, but it serves a different purpose. Whereas the WAVE is primarily a research tool, the LibraryCAVE is meant to serve as a teaching tool. As such, it’s housed in full view of the public, en route to the library’s second floor stacks.
Read the full article in University News here.
Sponsored by the UC Merced Library and Arts UC Merced Presents Co-sponsored by the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts and UC Merced Chancellor’s Office
DEADLINE: APPLY ONLINE BY FRIDAY, MARCH 16 AT 5:00 PM
bit.ly/BCASapply2018
It's time to get creative Bobcats! Enter your artwork in the 2018 Bobcat Art Show. All UC Merced students, faculty, and staff are welcome to enter their paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, mixed media pieces, and digital media.
“A Wall is a Wall”
The 2018 Bobcat Art Show is inspired by the 2017 song lyric “a wall is a wall”1; we invite participants to respond to, engage, or reflect on this theme. A physical wall may define space while a psychological wall might present a barrier or obstacle—something to break through. Walls are used as tools of oppression, for defense, or to hold back pressure. An empty wall in a gallery, city, or library offers up a place of possibility for the creation of art. Metaphorical walls ask us to think about inside and outside, boundaries and borders—whether actual or imagined. The theme is meant to be read and interpreted broadly: From wallpaper to Wall Street; from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China; from seawalls to prison walls; Facebook walls to internet firewalls; from backed against a wall to “another brick in the wall”; from climbing walls to wallflowers—or The Wallflowers for that matter! Drive us up the wall or go off the wall.
Students participating in the show are also invited to compete for the social media based “People’s Choice Awards.” The winners will be announced at the Artists Reception on Friday, April 6th and on the Arts UC Merced Presents Facebook page.
Terms and Conditions
Artists are required to acknowledge that:
*Framing Requirements For 2-D Artwork
Acceptable hardware for wood frames
Acceptable hardware for metal frames
1 Downtown Boys, "A Wall," Cost of Living (Sub Pop, 2017).
ProQuest Ebook Central and LibCentral platforms will be unavailable from 10am to 4pm Saturday, January 20th for scheduled maintenance. Access to ebooks via these platforms may not be available during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
The Carter Joseph Abrescy and Larry Kranich Library Award for Student Research Excellence was established in 2017 to recognize outstanding undergraduate research at UC Merced. The award recognizes a research paper or project produced for a credit-bearing course within the last 12 months that demonstrates effective use of library resources. A committee of faculty and librarians will review applications and select awardees. A total of $1,000 will be awarded each year; no more than two awards of $500 each will be awarded in a given year.
For more information about eligibility and how to apply, visit the Library Award webpage here.
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