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Welcome, UCSC Alumni

The UCSC Library offers many services and resources of special interest to alumni, including documents about the history of the campus, sources to help you take your academic life or career to its next stage, and tools for continuing education and intellectual growth.

PROGRAM EXTENDED: The Library and the Alumni Association are pleased to offer Alumni Association members free access to the (External) Alumni Digital Library (Proquest). This service includes more than 2300 online journals, magazines, and newspapers, many with full text.

Services for Alumni Association Members

Library Privileges

• Your UC Alumni Association membership entitles you a UCSC Library card with borrowing privileges to the UCSC Library's collections.*
• You may check out up to 25 books at a time from both the McHenry and Science & Engineering Library collections.
• Books are due in 3 weeks; the date is indicated on the printed receipt.
• Journals are due the next day, but may be renewed provided no hold has been placed on them.
• UCSC-owned items can be retrieved from off-site storage (NRLF).
• Access electronic resources and databases from home using the trial (External) Alumni Digital Library .

* Note: Alumni borrowing privileges include local holdings, including UCSC titles stored off-campus. However, interlibrary borrowing services and Melvyl Request access to collections of other libraries are not included.

Getting a Library Card

• To receive a library borrowing card, bring your Alumni Association card and a picture ID to the Circulation Desk at McHenry or Science & Engineering.
• Library cards will expire on the same date as your Alumni Association membership. Library cards issued to Lifetime association members will expire in one year but are renewable.
• If your Library card is lost or stolen notify the Library immediately. Come to the Circulation Desk with your Alumni Association card and a picture ID to receive a replacement card.

Your Library Account

To keep track of the items you have checked out, renew items, and learn how to use your account, visit the Check Your Circulation Account page.

• Special Collections —Non-circulating collection of rare books and campus-related historical material
• Film & Music Center —Listen to music or watch videos and DVDs
• Map Room — maps from around the world or browse current and historical aerial photos of the local area
• Government Publications —as A Federal Depository Library, this collection of information from all branches and agencies of the Federal, California, and local government, is available to anyone.
• Visual Resources Center —Slides and other image resources, including the Alumni artists registry
• Regional History Project —Interviews with founding students, faculty, and administrators, as well as community leaders and other local personalities
• Online Archive of California (OAC-UCSC)—UCSC's local digital archive and counterpart to the statewide UC digital initiative (see below)

• (External) CaliSphere - CDL's Digital Collections
• (External) Online Archive of California (OAC) —Brings together regional historical materials—including 120,000 images—from a variety of California libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives.
• (External) eScholarship Editions —a wide array of digital books, many (External) available for free

Research Tools

• Search more than 2300 online journals from home using the (External) Alumni Digital Library , available to Alumni Assocation members for free through June 2007.
• An even-wider collection of online Article Databases , many of which contain full-text articles, is available to anyone while visiting the Library.
• Use CRUZCAT , the UCSC Library catalog, to see which books, maps, videos, journals, and newspapers are available in the Library. Most electronic items linked through CRUZCAT are available from within the Library.
• A wide assortment of research sources are listed on our General Reference Links page.
• Have a question? Come to the Reference Desk at either library to consult with a librarian, or use Ask a Librarian —the Library e-mail reference service.

Workshops & Tutorials

• McHenry (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) and Science & Engineering libraries offer free classes teaching research skills. See the drop-in workshops site for current offerings.
• Look for a Subject Guide on your topic to learn which library resources and databases are the best ones to use.
• Look through How To...Get Started guides to learn how to find books, journal articles, court cases, statistics, and find career and graduate school information.
• Use (External) NetTrail , the Library's self-paced online literacy tutorial to get an overview of how (and when) to use library resources, databases, and catalogs.
• Discover search tips and strategies for searching some of the most popular databases using the Online Database Guides .

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