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Take the Library Tour!

Tue, August 22, 2023 2:50 PM

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The Library is hosting a Library Tour, designed to introduce students to Library spaces and familiarize them with our services and resources. The Tour must be completed in person, and asks students to walk through the Library answering questions and taking photos of a cardboard cutout of Rufus that they can pick up at the Services Desk. Students who complete the tour will be eligible for a chance to win a giftcard!

This is an in-person Tour students will complete on their cell phones, though there is a paper version available.

By the end of the Tour, student will be able to:

Find the following Library spaces: the Library Services Desk; The McFadden-Willis Reading Room; KL 355; Collaborative Work Rooms; the Pods; and KL 371.
Use their CatCard to check out materials
Understand ways the Library catalog can be used, including:
- conducting simple searches using at least one keyword;
- access materials and use ILL

Questions? Contact library@ucmerced.edu or emcmunn@ucmerced.edu for more information.

Request Course Resources for Spring 2023 Courses

Wed, December 7, 2022 2:05 PM

Request Course Resources for Spring 2023 Courses

Do you need to make supplemental course materials available to your students?

Course resources is a service offered by the Library to make course-related materials available to your students. The Course Resources service includes locating and digitizing materials and then posting the materials to CatCourses. Electronic materials are made available to your students through the Course Resources tool in CatCourses, while print materials are made available at the Library for a 2-hour loan period.

Would you like to make video materials available to your students?

The Library offers digitization services for AV materials including eligible DVDs. Video content digitized by the Library is made available in CatCourses through the Kaltura Canvas tool.

► Requests can be submitted at any time and will be processed in the order they are received. For more information about Course Resources and how to submit a request see our guide.

Library Collaborative Work Rooms Receive Upgrades and Will Reopen After Year-Long Closure

Thu, April 21, 2022 12:50 PM

When the Library building opened in 2005, the Collaborative Work Rooms located on the 2nd and 3rd floors became popular spots for studying, meetings, academic activities, and group assignments. The quiet and tech-equipped rooms have been offline for the past year, receiving much needed equipment and furniture upgrades, as well as a design facelift. We are excited to announce that the Collaborative Work Rooms will be available for reservation in the EMS Room Reservation System once more. They are scheduled to reopen on April 25, 2022.

Upgraded features include:

New tables in a fixed configuration, with seating for six people
Tabletops with wall display connection, plus USB-A, USB-C, and AC power connections
55” flat panel wall-mounted displays
Glass whiteboards with additional space to increase collaboration and productivity
Fresh paint to reduce glare

Visit our Collaborative Work Rooms page for more information including maps, equipment lists, and reservation instructions.

Upgraded Collaborative Workrooms

Photo Credit: Ross Anastos

Content Added to the Archives of Sexuality and Gender

Wed, May 12, 2021 9:20 AM

A pride flag with a woman's silhouette behind it

The Archives of Sexuality and Gender now includes a new module titled International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture with a focus on South Africa and Australia. It offers coverage of lesbian and feminist organizations, and lesbian culture internationally. The 450,000 pages of content are primarily from 1970-2016, though some coverage dates back to the 1820s.

Melvyl is Retiring- What Do I Need to Do?

Mon, May 3, 2021 12:15 PM

UC Library Search will replace Melvyl on July 27, 2021

UC Library Search logo shaped like a bookmark

How will we learn how to use UC Library Search?

UC Library Search is user-friendly, but your librarians will make training materials available after July 27, 2021. Look for workshops on how to use UC Library Search in the fall. We would also be happy to teach a workshop during class time. Make an Instruction Session Request.

What will happen to my library account? Do I need to do anything? Do I need to turn books back in?

No. Melvyl accounts will automatically become UC Library Search accounts. You do not need to take any action, UNLESS you have saved lists, saved searches or bookmarks to Melvyl records.

I have personal saved lists saved in Melvyl. What should I do to keep them?

Melvyl saved lists will NOT be automatically moved to UC Library Search. Before July 27, log in to Melvyl by clicking "Sign In". Enter your username and password. Click on your account name, and select "My Personal Lists" from the drop-down menu. From there you can access your saved lists. You can email your lists to yourself, or you can click on the "Cite" button and export them into a citation management software.

What do I do with my saved searches?

Melvyl saved searches will NOT be moved to UC Library Search. Before July 27, log into Melvyl by clicking on "Sign In". Enter your username and password. Click on the "Saved Searches" link in the gray menu bar. Before July 27, you should make note of search terms if you wish to reproduce them in UC Library Search.

What do I do about links or bookmarks to Melvyl records?

Melvyl links will NOT redirect in UC Library Search. If you have links to Melvyl records, either in your browser bookmarks, CatCourses, or elsewhere, you can log into Melvyl and save them to a list, which you can then email to yourself or export into citation management software.

For more information, including an updated FAQ, please see our UC Library Search website, or contact Olivia Olivares, UC Merced Library Instruction & Outreach Librarian.

Women's Studies Archive Now Available

Thu, April 8, 2021 2:50 PM

UC Libraries now have access to two modules - Issues & Identities and Voice & Vision -- in the Women's Studies Archive. Hosted at Gale Primary Sources, this archive showcases women's voices and feminism's evolution during the 19th and 20th centuries. Content is global and includes manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, memoirs, pamphlets, personal papers and more from libraries & archives including the British Library, Swarthmore College, New York University, The National Archives at Kew, University of California Santa Barbara, and the American Antiquarian Society.

Sample collections include the Grassroots Feminist Organizations featuring files (1960s-1990s) from women's centers and feminist organizations in Boston and San Francisco. The Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) and Its Leaders highlights women's activism in the first of the 20th centuries and includes the papers of Margaret Dreier Robins who led the WTUL from 1907 to 1922. The National Network of Hispanic Women Archives, from UCSB, offer administrative files, publications, photographs and ephemera from the Network - a non-profit focused on advancing Hispanic women's leadership in private public sectors from the 1970s through the 1990s.

The archive is available in the Library's database listing. In addition to searching the archive, you can browse all 30 collections or navigate to specific publications.

Coming Soon: UC Library Search

Thu, March 18, 2021 11:15 AM

Melvyl debuted in 1981, before most of our current students (and some of our faculty!) were born. Melvyl revolutionized the UC library system, allowing researchers to find books at other UC campuses through computer terminals on their own campuses.

Behind the scenes, however, Melvyl relied on a complex patchwork system that connected multiple catalogs and databases in order to coordinate interlibrary loans and full-text access. As several of these systems approached the end of their life spans, the UC Libraries recognized the technical unsustainability and inherent risks associated with keeping the Melvyl system. Consequently, about four years ago, the project of making UC Library Search a reality commenced.

UC Library Search will vastly improve the user experience of faculty, students, and researchers worldwide who need to access collections across the University of California system. Rather than using Melvyl, which linked separate catalogs from different institutions, all of the University of California libraries will now be part of one unified discovery tool.

Here's a preview of the new logo for UC Library Search:

New and Improved Library Chat Service: LibChat

Mon, March 15, 2021 4:45 PM

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Chat with a Librarian 24/7 with LibChat

LibChat 24/7 Library Chat Service is Here!

Library chat has been recently revamped, and includes several new features to help students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

UC users now have the option to participate in Zoom screensharing with UC libraries, speeding up the process and allowing chat librarians to use visual aids to help patrons. In addition, users can now email themselves chat transcripts at any time. Chat is available to anyone on the Library's website, and can answer questions about finding articles, accessing articles, creating citations, using library services, and more.

Library chat moved from the QuestionPoint platform to LibChat in June, allowing for better, more streamlined service.

You can click here to try out chat, or find links on multiple Library webpages.

One Library Search with the Power of Ten

Mon, February 8, 2021 3:40 PM

One Library Search with the Power of Ten- UC Library Search News Release, February 2021

On July 27, 2021, all ten campuses of the UC system will be connected through UC Library Search, a unified library discovery and borrowing system. UC Library Search features the following:

The ability to search UC Merced’s local library collection and the collections of all ten UC libraries in the same system at the same time;
Borrow and renew materials from any library in the UC system without needing to retype your library card number or enter a user name;
Locate millions of print and online books, journal articles, and other content.

The enhanced features of UC Library Search will replace Melvyl as the UC-wide library catalog search tool. As a single, unified system, UC Library Search will offer powerful tools to help the UC Libraries make data-informed decisions around collections development and new services for library users.

Stay tuned to find out more information about UC Library Search in the coming months by visiting the official UC Library Search website.

If you have further questions about UC Library Search, please contact Olivia Olivares, Instruction & Outreach Librarian, oolivares@ucmerced.edu.

UC Reaches Open Access Agreement with Springer Nature- A Letter to the Academic Community from University Librarian, Haipeng Li

Wed, January 20, 2021 9:35 AM

Dear UC Merced Academic Community:

Happy New Year!

We are excited to announce that the University of California has entered into a transformative open access agreement with Springer Nature. This agreement will allow UC authors to make their research published in Springer Nature journals freely available for anyone to read.

The first phase of the agreement will support UC authors whose articles are accepted by journals in the Springer portion of the Springer Nature portfolio, including Springer, Adis, and Palgrave Macmillan titles, as well as academic journals on nature.com.

Here's how the new process will work:

After January 4, upon acceptance of an article, UC-affiliated corresponding authors (faculty, lecturers, staff, and graduate students) will, by default, have their article designated for open access publishing, with funding support from the UC libraries. The support will work in this way:

For authors whose articles are accepted in journals from the Springer portion of the Springer Nature portfolio and who choose open access publishing, the UC libraries will automatically pay the first $1,000 toward the open access fee (called an Article Processing Charge or APC).
Authors who do not have research funds available can request that the UC libraries pay the entire open access fee, ensuring that lack of research funds does not present a barrier for UC authors who wish to publish open access in these journals.

As with other similar publishing agreements, authors may opt out of open access publishing if they prefer to publish their article on a subscription (pay-to-read) basis.

The integration of Nature-branded journals into the agreement is expected in 2022.

More detail about the agreement is available on these pages:

If you have any questions about any part of this process, please contact Jerrold Shiroma at the UC Merced Library at jshiroma@ucmerced.edu.

- Haipeng Li, University Librarian

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Request Course Resources for Spring 2023 Courses

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