Learn how to avoid common mistakes and plagiarism, and get practical tips for improving MLA, APA, and Chicago Manual of Style citation in your research papers from Westside (Oakes) Writing Center tutors. 

Free pizza provided by the Library Student Advisory Council. Open to All Undergraduates. 

UC Santa Cruz is about to begin renovation of the third floor of the Science & Engineering Library.

In March 2018, the University Library received a $5 million gift from an anonymous donor to renovate the top floor of the Science & Engineering Library. The floor will be named in honor of Professor Emerita of Astronomy and Astrophysics Sandra Faber, one of the campus’s most distinguished scholars.

This generous gift will allow the campus to create safe, attractive, comfortable, and convenient study environments designed to support academic success. The renovated space will be quieter, better ventilated, and much better equipped with AC/USB power in seating areas. The renovation will create seating for more library patrons, and provide separate zones for focused, quiet study, and for small group collaboration. Work will begin in the summer with a reopening planned at the start of winter quarter. Here is a brief project timeline:

• Fall 2018: The campus approved the renovation project and timeline.
• Fall 2018: The campus and library worked with master architect EHDD to develop the project’s Request for Proposals (RFP).
• Winter 2019: The campus solicited RFPs from qualified design/build teams. Two teams of creative, talented, and enthusiastic builders and architects submitted proposals.
• Spring 2019: The design/build team of Roebbelen and Ratcliff was awarded the contract for the project.
• Spring/Summer 2019: Design and construction documents will be reviewed and approved by Capital Planning and Space Management.
• Summer/Fall 2019: The third floor of S&E Library will be closed for renovation.
• January 2, 2020: A new, vibrant third floor will open!

This generous gift also gives us the opportunity to update the furniture on the third floor — much of it is more than 25 years old — with selections that better support the needs of modern students and researchers. We are working with a variety of vendors to find the best options and value. We have already installed some sample pieces on the third floor of S&E and more will be added. We encourage you to visit, see for yourself, and leave us your feedback. If you prefer, you can leave us feedback online.

In the spirit of transparency, the University Library will issue three more news flashes to keep students, faculty, and staff fully apprised of our progress. The next two will update you on the work in progress. The fourth and final announcement will celebrate the completion of the work and re-opening of the third floor. These features will be published in the quarterly Library Newsletter and included in campuswide newsletter, Tuesday Newsday. If you have not yet signed up for the newsletter, please consider doing so to receive future updates. You can subscribe up here. 

These updates will also be published on the News and Events section of the University Library’s website and on the Science & Engineering Library Renovation Blog.

Applications for the 2019-2020 CART Fellowship Program are now open! The application deadline has been extended to Tuesday, May 14th, 2019.

In the Center for Archival Research and Training, you can:

• Get hands-on, paid experience in archival processing in an academic library
• Enhance your research skills in archives and primary sources
• Help make archival collections more discoverable and accessible to researchers
• Learn about different library and archives career options
• Get experience curating a public exhibit
• Learn about innovative digital tools that you can use in your research and teaching
• Make connections with graduate students from different disciplines and interests

Learn more about CART

How to apply:

• Contact CART Archivist Alix Norton at alix.norton@ucsc.edu with any questions and to submit your application 
• Apply by Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 for first consideration

Where can you find articles on any topic, free books for your classes, group study rooms, and 24/7 research help? The Library offers all this and more! Whether you’re returning or new, the library is here to help you succeed.

Try out the new Library Search tool on our homepage for one stop shopping across catalogs, databases, and online indexes to find the most relevant results from the Library’s diverse holdings. Take a look at our helpful Library Search Guide for more tips, features, and shortcuts.

Need to write a research paper?  Check out our Start Your Research guide for tips and advice on defining a topic, locating scholarly articles and books, advice on selecting sources you want to use and help on citing sources correctly

Simply put: the Library is your key to success!

Tuesday May 14, 2019
2:00-3:00pm
Graduate Student Commons

Free Registration

• Learn about the best practices and tools you can use for practical data management and a happier future you.
   
• Start working now to ensure a future where you are secure in the existence, understandability, and reusability of your data.
   
• Time will be provided during the final 30 minutes to answer questions about your specific needs.
   
• Librarians with experience managing data from science, social science, and humanities projects will be on hand to provide support and tips.

The Human Book: Chronicles of Successful Alumni will feature speaker Jacob Martinez on April 22nd.

When: Monday, April 22nd from 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Where: S&E Library, Ching-Yi Dougherty Reading Room

Life after college can seem intimidating. Do you want a chance to talk with someone who used to face similar fears when they were a UCSC student?

Join us for speaker Jacob Martinez, the Founder and Excutive Director of Digital NEST and Oakes College alum (Ecology and Evolution, 2005).

Bring your questions and join the conversation! Free snacks provided.

If you need help using the library just ask us:

• In person
• By phone
• By email
• By chat

Keep an eye out for our Roving Information students as well (look for the yellow vest!). They are experts on using the library.

McHenry Library and Science & Engineering
 

March 22 - March 31, 2019
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Closed Saturday & Sunday

Closed Thursday, March 28th for staff in-service training
Closed Friday, March 29th for Cesar Chavez Day

Spring quarter hours begin April 1, 2019

See the hours page for more details.

"Depth-of-Field: Translating the Benefits of Virtual Reality from the Laboratory to the (Higher-Ed) Classroom" with Matt Cook

Please join us for this event in the David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons (ground floor) from 4–6pm in McHenry Library.

Increasingly accessible Virtual Reality technologies allow course content to be presented in context, at human scale, and responsive to the wide range of body-centered interactions. These representational characteristics, which define our engagement with real-world objects and environments, have been shown in the literature to improve performance on activities that overlap significantly with target learning outcomes across multiple disciplines. Yet, relatively few curricular interventions have made full use of VR (or have published on the results of such integrations). This talk will use case studies and associated implementation strategies to explore and narrow this gap in the research literature, thereby empowering participants to begin thinking about their own VR-based course integrations.

This event is co-sponsored by UCSC University Library, The Humanities Institute of UC Santa Cruz (THI), and The Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL).
 

Join us in the DSC to celebrate one of our very own geeky pleasures: Board Games!  Our day will be jam-packed for a day of board games talks and open gameplay in the DSC.  

The event is open to all.  Board games will be provided, along with knowledgeable faculty and librarians available to help you learn something new or rediscover an old favorite.  You are also welcome to bring your own board games to play in the space during the open play time.  See more information.

We hope to see you there!

Schedule

10:00
DSC opens

10:30 
When Board Games Go Digital: how analog games translate to virtual tabletops, Kristy Golubiewski-Davis
Have you ever wondered just how good a board game is on your phone or in Virtual Reality?  Kristy will walk through some examples of board games that have made the jump and talk about what makes a good virtual tabletop, and what ends up as a virtual flop.

11:30 
We’re All In This Together: Teaching and Learning through Tabletop Play, Elizabeth Swenson 
Elizabeth Swensen discusses educational affordances and strategies in board games and how to design tabletop experiences for learning and social impact. 

12:30 - 2:30
Open Game Play / break

2:30 
Japanese Board Games in the Postwar Shōwa Period, Nathan Altice
This presentation draws on new archival and historical sources to survey the major developments in Japanese board games in the postwar Shōwa era (1945–89), including the import of American games, the unlikely emergence of Japan’s wargame culture, and the structural foundations of the ancient Japanese game of sugoroku.

3:30 
Open Play

5:00
DSC closes

Wednesday February 6, 2019
1:00-2:30pm
Graduate Student Commons

Free Registration

• Learn about five basic tools and techniques you can use for practical data management and a happier future you.
   
• Start working now to ensure a future where you are secure in the existence, understandability, and reusability of your data!
   
• Time will be provided during the final 30 minutes to answer questions about your specific needs.
   
• Librarians with experience managing data from science, social science, and humanities projects will be on hand to provide support and tips.

Refreshments will be provided.

If you are having problems accessing library resources while on campus, download the campus VPN (also called Cisco AnyConnect) onto your device.

Why Is This Happening?
Due to recent changes to the eduroam wireless network, some UCSC-library users are reporting problems when accessing databases, journals and eBooks.  For example, when on-campus using Eduroam, they see a publisher's paywall or institutional login when accessing UCSC-licensed resources. 
 

Still having problems?  Ask a Librarian and we'll help!

The library will have extended hours for finals December 2 - 13, 2018.

Dec. 2     8am - 2am
Dec. 3     8am - 2am
Dec. 4     8am - 2am
Dec. 5     8am - 2am
Dec. 6     8am - 2am
Dec. 7     8am - Midnight
Dec. 8     8am - Midnight
Dec. 9     8am - 2am
Dec. 10   8am - 2am
Dec. 11   8am - 2am
Dec. 12   8am - 2am
Dec. 13   8am - 2am

Please see the library hours page for our complete schedule.

Both McHenry and the Science and Engineering Libraries will close at 5:00pm on Wednesday, November 21, and the buildings will be closed all day Thursday and Friday November 22-23 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

We will return to normal hours on Saturday, November 24.

Thank you for your interest; we have concluded this round of usability testing.

On October 5, 2018, the Library retired the use of the library barcode number as an authentication option for accessing library journals, eBooks and online resources from off campus via Off-Campus Access.

This change is taking place because the barcode login is vulnerable to hackers and puts all UCSC affiliates’ access to licensed resources at a security risk. To help reduce this risk, authentication for remote access will be limited to CruzID Gold.

If you use a library barcode number (usually on your staff/faculty ID or proxy card) to access eBooks, journal articles, and other scholarly resources from off campus, beginning October 5, you will need to access these resources using your CruzID account and Gold password.

If you are unsure whether you have set your CruzID Gold password or have questions, contact the ITS Support Center for assistance:

• Online: https://itrequest.ucsc.edu

• Email: help@ucsc.edu

• Phone: 459-HELP(4357)

• In person: Kerr Hall Room 54

Once you have your CruzID Gold set, there are two methods available for accessing library resources from off campus:

• The Library’s OCA service - log in with your CruzID and Gold Password

• The campus VPN - log in with your CruzID and Gold Password

For more information on how to access library resources from off campus visit: https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/offcampusaccess

Did you know:

• Women were not eligible to vote until 1920?
• Some jurisdictions levied poll taxes on federal elections until 1964?
• Adults between 18–20 were not eligible to vote until 1971?

Your right to vote was hard won. Exercise your franchise and vote if you are:

• A citizen of the United States
• At least 18 years old on election day
• Registered to vote in Santa Cruz County

Vote in person:
Polls are open from 7am to 8pm. Find your polling place.

Vote by mail:
No postage is required, but ballots must be signed and postmarked by election day. You can also drop off your signed mail-in ballot for Santa Cruz County in the drop box outside Bay Tree Bookstore or at any of these convenient locations for ballot drop-off no later than 8pm on election day.

Not registered?
If you didn’t register by the October 22nd deadline, it is not too late. California has a same-day registration process. You can register and cast a conditional ballot at:

• UCSC Bay Tree Conference Center Quarry Plaza
• Santa Cruz County Elections Office, 701 Ocean St., Room 310

Need help with the issues? Here are two non-partisan resources to help you get started.

• Ballotpedia
• UCB Institute of Governmental Studies: California Ballot Measures Guide

The Library Student Advisory Council (LSAC) serves the campus by:

• Advising on the design and implementation of University Library policies and services affecting students
• Offering student perspectives on library issues
• Gathering input from other UCSC undergraduate and graduate students
• Representing the University Library at campus events and meetings
• Advocating for the University Library to campus constituencies

The Council meets twice quarterly—free pizza included!

Applications accepted through Friday, October 19—see the LSAC homepage for full details

The library is happy to announce the publication of over 6000 images from the Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Photography collection. Negatives in the collection were scanned by the vendor Pixel Acuity here in McHenry Library near the end of June. The California Digital Library provided funding and administrative support for bringing Pixel Acuity to campus.  They digitized over 6360 original negatives in less than three days.  The images have now been loaded into the UC Santa Cruz Library’s Digital Collections site, augmenting the collection of Haight Ashbury photographs that were added to the site last spring.  We are lucky to be able to work with Pixel Acuity, who’ve also worked with the Smithsonian, the National Archives, and the Andy Warhol archives among many other institutions.

The collection itself is divided into several series, documenting life in the Bay Area in the 1950’s and 60’s.  Some of the notable series are Death of a Valley, which chronicles life in the town of Monticello before it was flooded to form Lake Berryessa.  The Black Panthers series captures images of the party leadership and activities in 1968.  Smaller series and photo essays include documentation of people and the communities around the Bay Area: San Francisco, Walnut Grove, Flea Market, Illusion for Sale, Renaissance Faire and Shape of Birth.

Much more information is available in the Finding Aids for the Pirkle Jones Photographs and the Ruth-Marion Baruch Photographs in the Online Archive of California.

A note about the titles of the photographs:  The library digital collections site displays the photographers’ title of each image.  Many of the images are “untitled” because they were never printed or displayed by photographers.  In those cases, the library has listed descriptive information from the donor’s inventory in the Subseries Title field to give some context about the subject of the photographs.  Certain descriptions of the documentary images include racialized language such as identification by race, ethnicity, or physical appearance. They reflect the social attitudes of the 1950’s and 1960’s, when the photographs were taken.

Staff members from several departments contributed to the project.  Archivist Mary deVries processed the collection of negatives.  Metadata librarian Rachel Jaffe remediated the metadata, adding linked data terms and making it interoperable with collections in Calisphere and the Digital Public Library of America. Angelika Frebert worked with the vendor ahead of time to assure the image specifications met the national standards we use for our other digitization projects. Library applications developer Ned Henry did a ton of programming on the back end of the system to get the new Digital Collections site up and ready to ingest and display such a large collection.  Library ITS worked with us to make sure the network and library servers could handle the ingest process. The Digital Asset Management System project team and Digital Initiatives department checked over each image and item to make sure the records ingested properly into the system.

The images are now available in Calisphere and the Digital Public Library of America.  We’re working to have the collection and thumbnails available in Library Search.  Pixel Acuity also digitized a collection of Dorothea Lange negatives, which should be published later this fall.  Stay tuned for an announcement about that!

Join members of the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team (UET) and take a short walking tour of the University Library. Tour points of interest include the Global Village Café run by Cafe Brasil, the Information Commons, group study rooms, the Digital Scholarship Commons, Special Collections, and much more! We are also offering daily tours of the Science & Engineering Library.

You will also learn about important library services such as Course Reserves for your classes, borrowing Chromebooks, expert research help, and the Interlibrary Loan service that can bring the world's library resources to you! New students: While you're here, take a minute to activate your library card (it's the same as your UCSC student ID). Tours run approximately 15–20 minutes. Join us and get to know your University Library!

Tour Schedule (All tours will meet just inside each library’s entrance):

Friday, September 21st
McHenry Library: 11am
McHenry Library: 1pm
McHenry Library: 3pm
Science & Engineering Library: 1pm

Monday, September 24th        
McHenry Library: 11am        
McHenry Library: 1pm        
McHenry Library: 3pm    
Science & Engineering Library: 1pm

Tuesday, September 25th
McHenry Library: 11am
McHenry Library: 1pm
McHenry Library: 3pm
Science & Engineering Library: 1pm        

Wednesday, September 26th
McHenry Library: 11am
McHenry Library: 1pm
McHenry Library: 3pm
Science & Engineering Library: 1pm        

Thursday, September 27th
McHenry Library: 11am
McHenry Library: 1pm
McHenry Library: 3pm
Science & Engineering Library: 1pm        

Friday, September 28th
McHenry Library: 11am
McHenry Library: 1pm
McHenry Library: 3pm
Science & Engineering Library: 1pm

Special Collections & Archives is pleased to announce the new online exhibit, Inquiring into Other Minds: The Cultivation of Experimental Music in the Bay Area and Beyond, created by 2017-2018 CART Fellows Madison Heying and Jay Michael Arms.

The exhibit explores the history and significance of the Other Minds global new music community and features portions of audio recordings from the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music recently digitized as part of a CLIR Recordings at Risk grant.

Check out the digital exhibit

McHenry Library and Science & Engineering

June 25 - Aug 31, 2018
Monday - Thursday 8am-8pm
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday - Sunday McHenry Library Only 12pm-5pm

September 1 - September 25, 2018
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Closed Saturday & Sunday
Closed Monday September 3rd for Labor Day.

See the hours page for more details.

The Library’s new Dead Central exhibit, Put Your Gold Money Where Your Love Is, Baby: Counterculture, Capitalism, and the Grateful Dead, is now open.

The exhibit explores how the band invented, improvised, redefined, and pioneered business practices that revealed new ways of thinking about work, about being in business, and about the relationship between creators and their communities. It draws on the newly processed business records of the band.
 

Come view the exhibit in Dead Central, the exhibit gallery on the main level of McHenry Library.  The creation of Dead Central was made possible through a generous grant from the Brittingham Family Foundation.

Read about it in Tuesday Newsday.

We will be closed Wednesday, July 4, 2018 for Independence Day. 

We will return to regular summers hours on Thursday, July 25th.

Whether it's on Latin America, East or South Asia, France, Eastern Europe, medieval Europe, China, or the Holocaust, find articles on countries outside the US and Canada in Historical Abstracts. Indexing articles from academic journals from across the world, it's your best resource for international history. Give it a try!

Research spotlight brought to you by the Library's Undergraduate Experience Team.

Citation Matters Workshop is for you!

Wednesday, May 30th
5:30–7:00pm
Room 2353, McHenry Library

Join Westside (Oakes) Writing Center tutors to learn how to avoid common mistakes and get practical skills for improving citations in:

• MLA
• Chicago Manual of Style
• APA

Learn how to:

• Keep track of ideas
• Avoid plagiarism
• Find campus and online resources

PLUS, free refreshments provided by the Library Student Advisory Council. OPEN TO ALL UNDERGRADUATES.

Are you a Graduate Student interested in getting hands-on experience with primary sources and enhancing your archival research skills? Apply to be a CART Fellow!

Visit our website for details on next year’s projects and to complete your application.
 

Applications for the 2018-2019 academic year are due on Friday, May 11th.
 

In the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART), you can:

• Get hands-on, paid experience in archival processing in an academic library
• Enhance your research skills in archives and primary sources
• Help make archival collections more discoverable and accessible to researchers
• Learn about different library and archives career options (and meet a bunch of cool library folks!)
• Collaboratively curate a public exhibition of artwork from our collections
• Learn about innovative digital tools that you can use in your research and teaching
• Make connections with graduate students from different disciplines and interests

1. Truncation

Searching for a word that has lots of possible endings? Truncation is a quick way to find your  word and all its variations.

Add the truncation symbol * (an asterisk) to the end of your word to search for the "root" form of a word with all its different endings.

Example: typing bank* retrieves: bank, banks, banking, bankers, bankruptcy

2. Phrase Searching

Want to search for two or more words and make sure they’re next to each other, and in the exact order in you enter them?

Just put quotation marks around the words you want treated as a phrase.

Example: “immigration policy”, “state of the union”  

3. Find Words on a Page

Trying to locate your search terms in the text of a webpage? Nearly every web browser comes with a Find tool, which allows you to scan the page for matching words or phrases:

Press (Windows)  or (Mac). This opens the "Find" box in virtually any browser. This command can also be found in the Edit menu in Internet Explorer, or in the ☰ menu in Chrome and Firefox.

 

For even more search tips see “How to Find Articles” and “Google Scholar Search Tips”.

Brought to by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.

Textbook costs got you down? Your University Library can help!

Check out our Library Course Reserves guide to see how we can help.

Check out our Affordable Textbooks guide for other money-saving tips.

Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.

Katie Fortney, J.D., MLIS, Copyright Policy and Education Officer from the California Digital Library (CDL), will visit campus to discuss what your rights are when signing publishing agreements for your scholarship. 

Seating is limited. Reserve a space.

Knowing Your (author) Rights from a Publishing Perspective
Wednesday, April 11, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Graduate Student Commons Fireside Lounge

Hosted by the University Library

Read the full Spring 2018 newsletter online.

Subscribe to the newsletter to have it delivered directly to your email inbox!

The Human Book is a new Library speaker series for every UCSC student.

• Connect with successful alumni
• Talk with role models and hear their stories 
• Join the conversation in a 'device-free’, low key environment

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 2:00 p.m.- 4 p.m, Ching-Yi Dougherty Reading Room, Science & Engineering Library

For our next chapter, all three speakers are alumni, come from a diverse background and have been very successful in the game industry.

Brendan Seaman
Information Systems Management, Crown College, 2006
Distinguished Engineer @ MZ

Dani Zuniga
Economics, Merrill College, 2003
Senior Product Manager: Analytics @ MZ

Simar Bal
Physics, Merrill College, 2003
Entrepreneur Co-Founder @ BitPollen, Ayumusoft and LaughingEar

Snacks provided!

Library Event Calendar
 

• McHenry Library and the Science & Engineering will be open 8am-5pm Monday - Thursday, March 26-29, 2018. 
   
  • We'll be closed Friday March 30, César Chávez Day
    ​
  • We will be closed Saturday & Sunday March 30, 31 and April 1st.
     
• Regular quarter hours resume Monday, April 2nd, 2018.
   
• See the library hours page for more details.

Whether it’s Paris, Texas or Paris, France—you can still access library resources even when you’re not on campus!

Login to library resources using your CruzID Gold or the Campus VPN and enjoy the same access you have from on campus to licensed databases, streaming video, streaming music, full-text articles, and more. See “Access Library Resources from on campus and off campus” for help and instructions.

Best of luck with your finals and enjoy your well-deserved break! Let us know how we can help you during finals week, and we look forward to serving you in spring quarter.

Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.

1. Truncation

Searching for a word that has lots of possible endings? Truncation is a quick way to find your  word and all its variations.

Add the truncation symbol * (an asterisk) to the end of your word to search for the "root" form of a word with all its different endings.

Example: typing bank* retrieves: bank, banks, banking, bankers, bankruptcy

2. Phrase Searching

Want to search for two or more words and make sure they’re next to each other, and in the exact order in you enter them?

Just put quotation marks around the words you want treated as a phrase.

Example: “immigration policy”, “state of the union”  

3. Find Words on a Page

Trying to locate your search terms in the text of a webpage? Nearly every web browser comes with a Find tool, which allows you to scan the page for matching words or phrases:

Press Ctrl + F (Windows) or Command + F (Mac). 
This opens the "Find" box in virtually any browser. This command can also be found in the Edit menu in Internet Explorer, or in the ☰ menu in Chrome and Firefox.

For even more search tips see “How to Find Articles” and “Google Scholar Search Tips”.

Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.

Check out the Library’s Guide to Google Scholar to find out ways to get the most out of this great resource with helpful tips on how to search effectively, create email alerts, export citations, and much more!

Brought to youby the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.

RSVP Now

UCSC Faculty, Students, and Staff
You are invited to attend an open forum to hear about the University Library budget
 

We are holding this forum to inform the campus community about the state of the University Library budget and how it is impacted by rising costs in academic publishing and emerging campus requests for programs and services.
 

Agenda:

• Budget Overview - John Bono, Associate University Librarian for Planning and Resource Management
• Collection Budget Impacts - An overview of the impending UC Libraries serials cost sharing revision, its specific impact on our collections budget, and an outline of how we will work with the Academic Senate and library stakeholders to identify potential journal/database cancellation candidates to manage the cost sharing change’s impacts from now through Summer 2019 - Kerry Scott, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services
• Planning for the Future - How we are moving forward in strategic ways - Elizabeth Cowell, Richard L. Press University Librarian

 
This forum follows up on the talks given at the 2017 symposium, Charting the Library's Future.

RSVP today!
 

Citation Matters Workshop is for you!

Wednesday, February 28th
5:30–7:00pm
Room 2353, McHenry Library

Join Westside (Oakes) Writing Center tutors to learn how to avoid common mistakes and get practical skills for improving citations in:

• MLA
• Chicago Manual of Style
• APA

Learn how to:

• Keep track of ideas
• Avoid plagiarism
• Find campus and online resources

PLUS, free food sponsored the UCSC Library Student Advisory Council

Have you gotten to the library website and not known where to go next for information you need to do research for an assignment? We have a handy one-stop shopping page for you: the Library’s Research Guides page.

Here you will find a list of academic departments so you can easily find the guides that UCSC librarians have created to help you know what resources—books, article databases, primary sources, background information, and web sources—are best for the subject area of your assignment or class. You will also find course guides created for specific classes at the professor’s request (check back each quarter to see if your class has one).

And there are lots of how-to guides covering a variety of “Special Topics” from citing sources, accessing affordable textbooks, using government sources, navigating statistics, to writing annotated bibliographies and literature reviews—and so much more!

Bookmark it now—so you’ll always know where to find it. The online library is always open. And tell your friends too!

Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team (UET).

Our library doesn’t have what you need? Use our Interlibrary Loan service to get it!

Learn more about our Interlibrary Loan service.

A Top 10 tip from the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.

Traveling over the break?

Whether it’s Paris, Texas or Paris, France—you can still access library resources even if you’re not on campus!

Login to library resources using your CruzID Gold or the Campus VPN and enjoy the same access you have from on campus to licensed databases, streaming video, full-text articles and more. See “Access Library Resources from On-Campus and Off-campus” for help and instructions.

Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.

The Library rolled out a new website design on December 18.  Please let us know what you like or don't about the new site.  If you're having problems finding old links or content, let us know!  If you run into errors or display issues, tell us what kind of computer and browser you're using.  We need you to make the site better!

Feedback Form

The library will have extended hours for finals December 3 - 14, 2017.

Dec. 3     8am - 2am
Dec. 4     8am - 2am
Dec. 5     8am - 2am
Dec. 6     8am - 2am
Dec. 7     8am - 2am
Dec. 8     8am - 12am
Dec. 9     8am - 12am
Dec. 10   8am - 2am
Dec. 11   8am - 2am
Dec. 12   8am - 2am
Dec. 13   8am - 2am
Dec. 14   8am - 2am

Please see the library hours page for our complete schedule.

Citation Matters Workshop

Tuesday, November 28, 2017
5:30pm - 6:30pm

McHenry Library, Room 2353

Join Westside Writing Center tutors to learn to avoid common mistakes and get practical tools for improving MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, and APA citations.

Get tips on avoiding plaigiarism, tracking ideas, and learn about campus and online resources.

Open to all undergraduate students.

Free refreshments!

View the event flyer

Add this event to your Google Calendar

Starting in January 2018, the library website will have a brand new look and feel. Check out the live preview site and let us know what you think! The new site has been reorganized to require fewer clicks and to highlight the most common research tools and services.

We will gather feedback from users and continue to tweak and test the site until we’re ready to launch in January. Please do give us your thoughts and report problems!

The Human Book is a new Library speaker series for every UCSC student.

• Life after college can seem intimidating, right?
• Want a chance to talk with someone who used to face similar fears when they were a student at UC Santa Cruz?
• Featured alumni will discuss how they overcame these obstacles and ultimately built a successful career.
• Bring your questions and join the conversation.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 3-5pm, Dougherty Reading Room, Science & Engineering Library

Inaugural Speaker: Dr. Eric Jackson-Scott, MD
Chemistry, Rachel Carson College '96
Urgent Care / Occupational Medicine
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Library Event Calendar
 

Apply to participate in the Undergraduate Digital Research Fellowship program

APPLICATIONS DUE Nov 9, 2017

Up to 6 fellows will be selected to participate in a two-quarter training and mentorship program meant to launch digitally-focused independent research projects. The fellowship includes a $500 award to support the development or public presentation of your work. Learn more about Digital Scholarship.

Share your digital research with the DH community! 

Thursday, October 19 (3:30 - 5:30 PM) at the Cowell Provost House.

Food and drinks courtesy of the Institute for Humanities Research.

Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This is an opportunity to meet new colleagues, share your work, and recognize mutual research interests. 

All students, faculty, staff welcome. You do not have to present to attend.

Both McHenry Library and Science & Engineering Library are open regular quarter hours beginning Thursday, September 28, 2017.

See the Library Hours page for our full schedule.

A library barcode is no longer needed to access library resources from off-campus. Use your CruzID Gold password when prompted!

Login from off-campus using CruzID Gold

• New students don't need to activate their barcodes
• CruzID Gold is more secure, helping to ensure the University maintain access to licensed content
• The Campus VPN continues as an alternate method to access library resources from off-campus
• The option to login with a library barcode will be available through fall quarter, and eventually phased out

Questions? email the Library project team: oca-group@ucsc.edu

Located in Dead Central on the 2nd floor of McHenry Library

Love on Haight: the Grateful Dead and San Francisco in 1967, will highlight materials from multiple collections housed in the Library’s Special Collections & Archives. The exhibit will feature posters, photography and ephemera from the Grateful Dead Archive and photographs from Ruth-Marion Baruch’s 1967 Haight-Ashbury series.

Additionally, the exhibit will include a selection from the Library’s exceptionally rich holdings in alternative publications from this time period: a variety of newspapers and magazines, comic books, literary journals and broadsides as well as political tracts. There will also be an audiovisual component in Dead Central – films about the Summer of Love, snippets of performances and of course, music.  Selected items are available online in the digital exhibits site.

Image: Grateful Dead stand on the corner of Haight & Ashbury, 1966. Herb Greene.exhibit

Students, faculty, and staff: To connect to library online resources from on-campus, the Eduroam wireless network on your laptop, notebook or phone.

Instructions for logging in and configuring your device are available from ITS.

The new 2016-17 CART Fellowship Program exhibit, Celebrating Innovation and Public Engagement at UC Santa Cruz: Preserving the Records of Ray Dasmann, the UCSC Feminist Studies Department and Women of Color Research Cluster, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz, is now on display.

View the exhibit on the McHenry Library 3rd floor, outside of Special Collections.

This exhibit runs June 15 - October 6, 2017.

Also view the digital exhibit.

Due to a construction project, the Global Village Cafe will be closed Monday, June 19 - Monday, June 26.

The GVC will be open:

• June 27 - June 30: 8am-3pm
• July 1 - July 2: 12pm-5pm
• July 3 - July 7: 8am-3pm

Regular GVC hours will resume on July 8:

• Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm
• Friday 9am-3pm
• Saturday-Sunday 12pm-4pm

On May 31st, over 75 faculty, students, staff, and librarians joined in McHenry Library to learn about and discuss the changing nature of research, teaching, and scholarship. The morning panel session brought together library experts from throughout the UC system to address how libraries are evolving to meet the emerging needs of research universities.  In the afternoon, UCSC Library stakeholders discussed how the library directly supports their research and teaching.  Panel abstracts and video recordings from the symposium are available on the Library Symposium webpage and on the Library's YouTube Channel.

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Observed U.S. Precipitation Change Map Image courtesey UCGCRP 

*NOTE: The location may be moved to McHenry Library if a larger space is
needed. We will notify you by email (from your RSVP) if the location changes.*

Hosted by: University Library and Graduate Student Commons

Connect to the MapsTutorial

UCSC has access to PolicyMap for one year, ending January 2018. Your feedback and the library budget will help us determine if we should renew our subscription.  Please share your thoughts using our feedback form.

Join tutors from the Westside Writing Center to learn about how to avoid common mistakes and get practical tools for improving MLA, APA, and Chicago Manual of Style citation.

Get tips on avoiding plagiarism. Discuss ways of keeping track of ideas. Learn about campus and online resources.

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Sponsored by the UCSC Student Advisory Council

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Note the Science & Engineering Library will be closed for construction December 10, 2016 - January 2, 2017

Both McHenry Library and S&E Library will reopen to intersession hours on Tuesday, January 3, 2017.

See the full library hours schedule for more information.

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Oct 26 - Open Con Community Call (virtual)
We'll kick off the call with a talk and Q&A with experts on research evaluation (How we evaluate research, and reward researchers has become the largest issue holding back mainstream adoption of Open Access & Open Data). But, afterwards together we'll take a simple action on the call to accelerate the rate at which researchers are rewarded for openness. 

Oct 24-30 - Events across the globe 

Nov 12-14 - Open Con Conference, Live (attend remotely)
OpenCon is more than a conference. It’s a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action toward a more open system for sharing the world’s information—from scholarly and scientific research, to educational materials, to digital research data. OpenCon 2016 will be held in Washington, DC on November 12-14, with satellite events hosted around the world.