Library News

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Deputy University Librarian, Donald Barclay, notes that libraries are not new to teaching students how to navigate information but highlights that the information environment is increasingly complex due to factors such as fake journals and “the hyper partisan noise of social media”. Information literacy is nuanced and the information literacy challenge requires the collaboration of librarians, faculty and administrators. Read the full article at The Conversation.

In December, the UC Merced Library welcomed Breanna Wright as their Communications Coordinator. Breanna comes to the Library from the Marketing and Communications for Enrollment Management department within Student Affairs where she was the E-Communications Specialist and primarily served the Office of Admissions. 

Breanna is also a UC Merced alumna with a B.S. in Cognitive Science.  She has worked in Admissions since 2013 and received her initial training from Jessica “Jae Jae” Julian, a former Library staffer. Breanna will be working closely with all Library staff who are currently doing Library communications to pull all the disparate threads together and organize that work into a single workflow.  She will also be taking primary responsibility for all of our social media communications.

When placing multiple requests in a single search session, users no longer have to re-enter their information such as their UCMnetID. The California Digital Library (CDL) implemented this enhancement on Nov. 7. More details are available at CDLINFO News.