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McHenry Library and Science & Engineering
June 15 - 24, 2018
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday and Sunday Closed
June 25 - Aug 31, 2018
Monday - Thursday 8am-8pm
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday - Sunday McHenry Library Only 12pm-5pm
July 4, 2018
McHenry Library and the Science & Engineering Library will be closed Wednesday, July 4, 2018 for Independence 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.
Due to the new Library Management System implementation and fiscal close activities, there will be a 3-month freeze on most library material orders beginning on May 18, 2018.
Library Materials Requests Not Impacted
Library Material Requests Impacted
Urgent Exceptions
If faculty have an urgent need for any print or other library material purchases during this time period, exceptions will be made on a case by case basis. These requests can be sent through Assistant Deans directly to the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services, Kerry Scott.
If you have further questions about this temporary freeze, please contact Kerry Scott or John Bono.
Coming June 20th! The Library will launch a new tool for searching across Library resources via a single search box on our home page.
The new search tool will help researchers discover books, ebooks, journals, full-text scholarly articles, newspaper articles, archival finding aids, images, videos, music and more. A modern, intuitive interface will provide our community with many great features, such as article recommendations and saved searches, as well as advanced search options.
CruzCat, our 18-year-old library catalog, will be going away but Melvyl will still be available. If you have any Lists or Preferred Searches saved in CruzCat, be sure to export them prior to June 20th.
In anticipation of the September 2018 Journal & Database (Serial) Cancellation Process, the library has launched an informational website to keep you up to date: Journal & Database (Serial) Cancellation Review Process 2018-2019
Stay tuned for more announcements about the process over the spring, summer and fall of 2018.
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 fall quarter.
Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.
If you need help using the library just ask us:
Keep an eye out for our Roving Information students as well (look for the yellow vest!). They are experts on using the library.
Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.
The new exhibit, Inquiring into Other Minds: The Cultivation of Experimental Music in the Bay Area and Beyond, will open on the McHenry Third Floor Gallery on Thursday, May 10th.
The exhibit features selections from the archives of Other Minds, a renowned Bay Area non-profit organization known for promoting contemporary and experimental music, most notably through its yearly concert festivals.
This exhibit was curated by the 2017-2018 fellows of the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART), Madison Heying and Jay Arms, who are both pursuing PhDs in Cultural Musicology.
Inquiring into Other Minds will be on display until July 31st, 2018.
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.
Saturday, May 26th, 2018
Monday, May 28, 2018
We will return to normal hours on Tuesday, May 29th.
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:
Learn how to:
PLUS, free refreshments provided by the Library Student Advisory Council. OPEN TO ALL UNDERGRADUATES.
Roving students walk throughout McHenry Library to answer questions wherever you are!
Since 2011, the UCSC Library has provided peer-to-peer and point-of-need help to library users. Our crew of five intrepid and friendly library ambassadors wearing bright yellow vests can help with building navigation, finding materials in the stacks, and using the Library’s website. The Roving students walk throughout McHenry Library to answer questions wherever you are. They can even get you started with a research project by helping you find the best library database or online resource, and also how to get started with keyword searching.
As a part of the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team (UET), you may see our Roving students tabling in front of McHenry Library or at Quarry Plaza, giving library tours, or at campus events like the annual Summer Orientation for new students, and at the OPERS Fall Festival.
Please ask them for help if you see them walking by! You can also ask at the Library Services Desk if there is a Roving student on duty who can help you. They carry walkie-talkies to be able to come to the desk when needed. Our Roving students are eager to make everyone’s library experience successful and enjoyable!
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:
Learn more about the Grateful Dead Archive.
If you’d like to view selections from the Archives during the exhibit closure, please visit the Special Collections reading room on the 3rd floor of McHenry (check our hours), or visit the Grateful Dead Archive Online (GDAO).
The new Dead Central exhibit entitled Put Your Gold Money Where Your Love Is, Baby: Counterculture, Capitalism, and the Grateful Dead, will open June 11, 2018.
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 
For even more search tips see “How to Find Articles” and “Google Scholar Search Tips”.
Brought to by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.
Need help with your writing—essays, papers, resumes, or applications? Help is on the way!
Learning Support Services (LSS) has partnered with the University Library to offer drop-in writing tutoring.
Thursdays 3:00–6:00pm
McHenry Library Classroom 2359
April 19th - June 8th, 2018
Work one-on-one with a trained and experienced LSS writing tutor for a drop-in 30-minute session. Come ready with an essay prompt and your ideas, and bring a draft and/or a working outline. Available to all lower-division and upper-division courses and disciplines.
Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team (UET)
Brought to you 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.
Special Collections and Archives will have the following limited hours during the week of April 9-13th:
Monday April 9th, 10:00am-noon & 1:00-4:00pm (usual hours)
Tuesday April 10th, 10:00am-noon & 1:00-4:00pm (usual hours)
Wednesday April 11th, 1:00-4:00pm only
Thursday April 12th, 1:00-4:00pm only
Friday April 13th, closed
The Photo, Blake Turner, Jack Moore, Don Patterson, and Dave "Buster" Steward at Cowell Beach (approximately 1939-1940) is part of the Harry Mayo Surfing Collection.
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
The Library’s Start Your Research guide:
And if you still need help you can always Ask A Librarian!
Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.
Read the full Spring 2018 newsletter online.
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A $5 million grant will kick-start the Science and Engineering Library’s transformation to meet the needs of 21st century researchers and learners.
The top floor of the Science and Engineering Library will be named in honor of legendary astrophysicist Sandra Faber, who is renowned for her contributions to the understanding of dark matter, galaxy formation, and the large-scale structure of the universe.
Photo of University Librarian Elizabeth Cowell & Professor Emerita Sandy Faber by Carolyn Lagattuta.
The Human Book is a new Library speaker series for every UCSC student.
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!
The Library will be closed Friday, March 30, 2017 for Cesar Chavez Day and Saturday & Sunday March 31 & April 1 for quarter break hours.
We will return to normal hours on Monday, April 2nd.
Ever wonder how to read and use those letters and numbers you see on the spine of the books in the library? Need to find the awesome book you found in the catalog but don't know where it is on the shelf? Help is on the way!
The call number of a book (that actually starts with one or two letters in the Library of Congress Classification system) is like the book’s address: it tells you the exact location where it lives on a shelf in the library—but also what it is about. The books in the McHenry and the Science & Engineering Library are shelved by subject, so when you find the right spot on the shelf where your book lives, take a quick look at the books around it—they may be useful to you as well because they are in the same subject area. Browsing is a great way to pick up more than one source at a time and explore the collection with serendipity as your guide.
So how do they work?
Here's a guide that explains how to read them, and what to do if you can’t find your book on the shelf.
And here is a guide that includes an online tutorial on how to use the library’s catalog Cruzcat, where library materials can be discovered.
Roving students who wear yellow vests and walk throughout the library to answer your questions are happy to help you get to the right place to find your book. Make sure to ask them for help—they are here for you!
Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.
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.
The library will have extended hours for finals December 3 - 14, 2017.
March 14 8am - 2am
March 15 8am - 2am
March 16 8am - 12am
March 17 8am - 12am
March 18 8am - 2am
March 19 8am - 2am
March 20 8am - 2am
March 21 8am - 2am
March 22 8am - 2am
Please see the library hours page for our complete schedule.
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.
If you do any kind of legal research from case law, congressional documents, to law review articles then this is the premier source for you!
UCSC has trial (temporary) access to HeinOnline until May 31st 2018. It includes Academic Core Plus as well as 3 Congressional modules not included in Academic Core Plus: History of International Law, Religion and the Law and US Federal Agency Collection.
Use the campus VPN (recommended) if you are connecting from off campus.
Please let us know your thoughts about the usefulness of this database.
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.
Need help with your writing—essays, papers, resumes, or applications?
Help is on the way!
Learning Support Services (LSS) has partnered with the University Library to offer drop-in writing tutoring.
Thursdays 3:00–6:00pm
Through March 15th
McHenry Library Classroom 2359
Work one-on-one with a trained and experienced LSS writing tutor for a drop-in 30-minute session. Come ready with an essay prompt and your ideas, and bring a draft and/or a working outline. Available to all lower-division and upper-division courses and disciplines.
Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.
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:
This forum follows up on the talks given at the 2017 symposium, Charting the Library's Future.
Tuesday, March 6th
5:30 - 6:30pm
McHenry Library, Room 2353
Free pizza provided too! Brought to you by the Library's Undergraduate Experience Team and this year's Professional Career Development Intern.
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:
Learn how to:
PLUS, free food sponsored the UCSC Library Student Advisory Council
UCSC Librarians will hold drop-in hours for Zotero at the Graduate Student Commons.
Stop by for help getting started. Or, Install Zotero first, try it out, and come in to get a quick orientation.
Learn more and download Zotero at https://www.zotero.org/
For other Grad Student Commons events, check out the GSC Events Calendar.
Starting to research your monster?
Find recommended encyclopedias on monsters, databases of plays, appropriate article databases, subject terms, image archives, and more in the THEA 80C: Monsters course guide.
Created for you by your UCSC librarians.
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).
Covering most areas of academic study, Academic Search Complete is one of the library’s most popular article databases and is a great starting point for research on nearly any topic. Multi-disciplinary in scope, Academic Search Complete provides full-text scholarly articles from an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed journals, as well as additional journals, magazines, newspapers, and more.
Available online 24/7, try Academic Search Complete and jump-start your research!
(Need help logging in from off-campus?)
Brought to you by the Library's Undergraduate Experience Team.
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.
Read the full Fall 2017 newsletter online.
Subscribe to the newsletter to have it delivered directly to your email inbox!
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!
CQ Researcher provides award-winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of today’s fast-paced news.
Need help? Ask the friendly staff and librarians at the Information Services desk—ready to help you in person, on the phone, or by email!
This research tip was brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.
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.
3D Scanning, Bronze Age Swords, and Social Networks: Using data to reconstruct shared knowledge
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
4:00 - 6:00pm
Digital Scholarship Commons in McHenry Library
Research Presentation by Kristy Golubiewski-Davis, Digital Humanities Librarian, UC Santa Cruz
Come learn about 3D scanning, statistics, and network analysis!
Kristy Golubiewski-Davis will detail her research using 3D scans of Bronze Age swords (~1600-800BC) to recreate community networks of knowledge. The aim of the work is to visualize the networks of specialized knowledge across space. Digital methods were used to identify the decisions of specialized craft workers and generate social networks that spread knowledge around the world.
This project serves as a case study for thinking about digital project development and management: how can you juggle multiple methods and a large data set while staying focused on building scholarly arguments?
Cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Digital Scholarship Commons
(Registration requested, but not required.)
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!
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Both McHenry and the Science and Engineering Libraries will close at 5:00pm on Wednesday, November 22, and the buildings will be closed all day Thursday and Friday November 23-24 for the Thanksgiving holiday.
We will return to normal hours on Saturday, November 25.
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!
Have you ever been asked to share your data by a journal editor or funder? Do you want to make your research more reproducible and data citable? This practical workshop will cover all of these topics and give you the skills to:
Snacks provided!
November 16, 3-4:30
McHenry Library Room 2353
Please Register! (free)
Presenters:
John Borghi, PhD, Integrative Neuroscience is currently a CLIR/DLF fellow in Data Curation at the California Digital Library, University of California Curation Center (UC3).
Daniella Lowenberg is currently the Research Data Specialist / Dash Product Manager at the University of California Curation Center (UC3) and a former Publications Manager at PLoS One where she implemented and oversaw the PLoS Data Policy.
Christy Caldwell, UCSC Research Support Librarian, has been teaching and consulting on research data management and data sharing best practices for UCSC's researchers for over five years.
The Human Book is a new Library speaker series for every UCSC student.
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
Inventor
SEO / Technology Consult
Community Leader
Featured on Oprah's Big Give
More Information
Snacks provided!
The Library will be closed Friday, November 10, 2017 for Veterans Day. Please see the Library Hours page for our full schedule.
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.
October 26, 2017 12-1pm
McHenry Library Room 2353
Learn about free tools offered by the University of California to archive and publish your research data for publication. See a demo of how easy it is to:
All are welcome!
Looking for ideas for your paper? Need background information? Searching for a quick explanation of a theory?
Take a look at the Gale Virtual Reference Library, a virtual library of thousands of full-text encyclopedias and specialized reference sources in the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, technology, and more. With over a million authoritative articles written by subject experts, this online resource is a scholarly alternative to Wikipedia.
Available 24/7, optimized for searching and browsing, and loaded with tools that allow you to save, cite, and email your search results, use it for getting started and finding information on just about any subject. (Need help logging in from off-campus?)
Brought to you by the Library's Undergraduate Experience Team.
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.
Fill out the application form to apply to join the LSAC!
The Library Student Advisory Council (LSAC) serves the campus by:
The Council meets twice quarterly—free pizza included!
Applications accepted through Friday, October 20—see the LSAC homepage for full details
Both McHenry Library and Science & Engineering Library are open regular quarter hours beginning Thursday, September 28, 2017.
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 22nd
Monday, September 25th
Tuesday, September 26th
Wednesday, September 27th
Thursday, September 28th
Friday, September 29th
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
Questions? email the Library project team: oca-group@ucsc.edu
The summer of 1967 still stands in the popular imagination as a turning point. The social changes that had been building over the previous decade finally exploded, leaving the country forever changed. Fifty years later, a look at public opinion during this turbulent period showcases the depth and breadth of the Roper Center archive.
Explore public opinion in 1967 America with data and blog content from the Roper Center Archive.
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
GrantForward is a grant funding database that streamlines the process by which funding opportunities can be identified. GrantForward provides searchable information across all fields of research, including the sciences, engineering, arts, and humanities. GrantForward includes information about government and private funding organizations and also provides links to fellowship and scholarship opportunities. Users can set up personalized research profiles and have the system recommend funding opportunities based on interests and previous publications. Potential collaborators can also be identified. UCSC’s Office of Research is supporting campus-wide access to GrantForward.
To Access GrantForward
For additional start-up tips, please consult the GrantForward Basics Guide
If you have any questions or would like additional information, please contact Dr. Audrey Levine, Director of Research Development in UCSC's Office of Research
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.
Students, faculty, and staff: To connect to library online resources from off-campus, the campus VPN is the most secure and inclusive access.
Can't install the Cisco AnyConnect Client on your computer or device? The library's OCA Proxy server is the best alternative.
See the Connecting from Off-Campus guide for further information for downloading the VPN client application and logging in.
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.
Summer Session Hours: June 26 - July 28 and July 31 - Sept 1
Monday - Thursday 8am-8pm
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday - Sunday McHenry Library Only
See the hours page for more details.
Due to a construction project, the Global Village Cafe will be closed Monday, June 19 - Monday, June 26.
The GVC will be open:
Regular GVC hours will resume on July 8:
Science & Engineering Library Hours June 19-25, 2017
Closed for renovations
McHenry Library Break Hours June 16 - 23, 2017
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Global Village Cafe June 19-26, 2017
Monday-Monday Closed for renovations
McHenry Library Break Hours June 24 - 25, 2017
Saturday and Sunday Closed
Summer Session Hours, June 26 - July 28
July 31 - Sept 1
Monday - Thursday 8am-8pm
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday - Sunday McHenry Library Only
See the hours page for more details.
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.
The Science & Engineering Library will be closed the week of intersession (June 19 - June 23), while carpeting is installed on the entry level floor.
The McHenry Library will be open Monday 6/19 - Friday 6/23: 8am-5pm.
If you need books from the Science & Engineering collection, please use the S&E Library Book Paging Form.
Join tutors from the Westside (Oakes) Writing Center to learn how to avoid common mistakes and get practical tools for improving MLA, APA, and Chicago Manual of Style citation in your research papers.
Get tips on avoiding plagiarism, and learn ways of keeping track of ideas and about campus and online resources.
Free refreshments!
Open To All Undergraduates
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Learn more about the Grateful Dead Archive and visit our current exhibit, Imagining the Dead, before it ends on April 30, 2017.
*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.*
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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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McHenry Library will be open from 11am - 7pm (regular Saturday hours).
Please see the Hours Page for our full schedule.
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.
• 12/12-12/22: the S&E Library will be closed
This will allow the contractor to front load some of the more noisy and disruptive work ahead of students' winter quarter return. The library will offer a paging service for S&E collections during the closure. To request a book from the S&E collection, please email circulation@ucsc.edu or call the McHenry Library service desk at (831) 459-5185
• 12/9: the Cowell Room will be closed
This will allow our Operations staff and ITS partners to breakdown and completely vacate the space. We are aware that Friday, 12/9 is the last day of finals; we delayed the closure as long as we could. We plan to aggressively advertise the service disruption and direct students to facilities and services at McHenry Library.
• 12/9: the Gaming Lab will close
The current lab space will become part of the new active learning classroom. A new, larger Gaming Lab will reopen across the hall in room 215 in time for the start of winter quarter instruction.
• 12/9: main level furniture will be reconfigured
Some public furniture on the main level of the library will be disassembled and stored. Other furniture will be relocated within the library. We need to do this to clear space for the low-profile raised flooring that will facilitate power and data in both the new classroom and a new information commons that will be created on the main level.
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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.
In December 1968 the de Young museum in San Francisco opened a controversial photo exhibit on the Black Panthers. The essay was a collaboration of two fairly unknown photographers: Ruth-Marion Baruch and her husband Pirkle Jones. Their photos, however, depicted one of the most defining moments in twentieth-century American cultural history: the Black Liberation Movement embodied by the Black Panthers. The show ended up drawing close to 100,000 visitors.
Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones, 1951.
Photograph by Rose Mandel. ©Rose Mandel Archive/Susan Ehrens
Two years later, in 1970, the exhibit was on display at Cowell College. Pirkle and Ruth-Marion, who by now had become internationally renowned photographers, formed a special bond with the University of California, Santa Cruz and the UC Santa Cruz Library in particular. Pirkle taught on campus with Ansel Adams and worked with students on the Images and Words project. Over the course of many years, the relationship between the photographers and the campus grew. The couple donated a selection of their prints to the UC Santa Cruz Library in 2003. When the UC Santa Cruz Library most recently was invited, along with three other institutions, to submit a proposal and compete for the acquisition of the entire Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch collection, we did not hesitate.
The library’s proposal was successful, and today I am proud and honored to announce that UC Santa Cruz now owns the entire Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch Photography Collection. Assessed by one of the nation’s most respected photography appraisers, the collection is valued at $32 million. It comprises more than 12,000 photographic prints, 25,000 negatives, and thousands of transparencies created by photographer Pirkle Jones, as well as many more by Ruth-Marion Baruch. Our ownership also includes all intellectual rights.
Farm Worker Family, Bakersfield, 1957.
Courtesy Special Collections, University Library, UC Santa Cruz
(Photo by Pirkle Jones)
Click here for more photos from the collection
The enormous value of this gift to our campus is unprecedented. The UC Santa Cruz Library is now the steward of an incredibly rich historic portfolio that documents many aspects of life in California—from the work Pirkle did with Dorothea Lange on the building of the Monticello Dam to Ruth-Marion’s focus on capturing the Summer of Love in San Francisco. The stories Pirkle and Ruth-Marion captured from the 1940s through the 1970s are just as relevant today as when they were created. Our society is grappling with the same social, political, racial, and environmental issues. Our student population has always been eager to engage with these exact issues. This collection will allow students to approach their interest and passion not only through words and text, but also through incredibly beautiful photographs as well as through the example of the lives led by both Pirkle and Ruth-Marion.
The collection has already moved from its storage in San Francisco to McHenry Library. Three 24-foot trucks with more than 900 crates of materials as well as hundreds of framed items have come to UC Santa Cruz. It will take time to process the entire collection, but our goal is to provide access as quickly as possible. We already have plans for exhibits at McHenry devoted to the Black Panthers (2016) and the Summer of Love (2017), and are planning traveling exhibits for 2018 as well as secure digital access. I would like to thank everyone who was involved in ensuring a safe home for the collection.
Elizabeth Cowell
Richard L. Press University Librarian, Presidential Chair
The open hours of Special Collections & Archives are subject to change between academic quarters and intersessions. Please confirm current hours before planning your visit.
Academic Quarters: Monday-Friday 10:00 am-noon and 1:00-4:00 pm. Closed most major holidays
A selection of framed photos from the Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch Photography Collection will be on display at the Founders Celebration on October 22. Purchase tickets now at founders.ucsc.edu.
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The UC Academic Senate Open Access (OA) policy is now in its third year. And, with the newly launched Presidential Policy extending open access to lecturers, staff and graduate students, at UCSC, OA is in the spotlight more than ever. If you have explored options for publishing in an OA journal, negotiated with a publisher about rights for reuse of your publications, or just want to know more about what OA means for you, please join us for a lively conversation between and among UC Open Access pioneers and experts.
This panel of UCSC faculty and representatives from the California Digital Library (CDL) will place the conversation about Open Access squarely within the context of the UCSC community. Roberto Manduchi, Computer Engineering, and Chris Benner, Environmental Studies, will each address their experiences with the UC OA policy and OA publishing. Katie Fortney, Copyright Policy & Education Officer, California Digital Library, will address legal concerns you may have as authors, including those related to publisher agreements, and copyright. And, Ivy Anderson, Director, Collection Development and Management Program, California Digital Library, will discuss current research about Open Access funding models, including the Mellon supported UC Pay it Forward Project, which tests financial models for Gold Open Access publishing.
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