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February 7, 2019
Writing an article? Get help managing your citations, PDFs, and more with Zotero.
Come to drop-in hours for Zotero at the Graduate Student Commons on the first Friday of each month (except January) at 1:00pm.
- October 5, 2018 @ 1:00pm
- November 2, 2018 @ 1:00pm
- December 7, 2018 @ 1:00pm
- February 1, 2019 @ 1:00pm
- March 1, 2019 @ 1:00pm
- April 5, 2019 @ 1:00pm
- May 3, 2019 @ 1:00pm
- June 7, 2019 @ 1:00pm
Learn more and download Zotero.
Email research@library.ucsc.edu for more information.
January 29, 2019
Wednesday February 6, 2019
1:00-2:30pm
Graduate Student Commons
- 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.
January 9, 2019
UC and Elsevier have agreed to continue discussions in a good-faith effort for the time being. For now, access is expected to continue. Should we learn of any changes to access at UC, we will notify our community.
If UC does not reach an agreement with Elsevier, they may turn off access to articles published in 2019 as well as to a small number of their journals for which UC does not have perpetual access rights. UC will continue to have perpetual access to articles with publication dates before January 2019 in all Elsevier journals for which the library had a pre-existing subscription.
See our recommended options for obtaining articles if Elsevier restricts access to 2019 articles. The unpaywall browser extension may also be useful as it makes linking to authors’ versions of articles in preprint databases and in institutional repositories virtually seamless.
For more information:
- Op-ed about UC and Open Access, co-authored by Karen Ottemann "UC is leading fight for open access to research"
- Letter from UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal "UC negotiation with publisher"
- KQED Forum recording "UC Takes on Publishing Giant, Fights for Open Access to Publicly-Funded Research"
- Los Angeles Times article "In UC's battle with the world's largest scientific publisher, the future of information is at stake"
- Negotiating Journal Agreements at UC: A Call to Action. Issued by the UC Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee. Endorsed by the UC Academic Senate University Committee on Library And Scholarly Communication.
- UC Libraries Journal Negotiations with Elsevier
Contact your librarian at research@library.ucsc.edu or your COLASC representatives
December 11, 2018
The Journal Survey portion of this process is closed. Thank you for participating.
We will review the results of the survey and will work with COLASC (Committee on the Library and Scholarly Communication) to communicate recommended next steps.
More information about the 2018-2019 Journal & Database (Serial) Cancellation Process can be found: Journal & Database (Serial) Cancellation Review Process 2018-2019
December 11, 2018
Working Group Charged with Investigating Systemwide Integrated Library System
The Council of University Librarians has charged a working group to investigate how the UC Libraries might license a single, shared, systemwide Integrated Library System (ILS). An ILS is the system which allows our library to manage the acquisition of material, items borrowed by patrons, bills paid, as well as a variety of other library management related tasks.
The UC-wide group is currently working on the request for proposal (RFP) phase of this project.
More details including the project charge, timeline, and other documents are located on the UC Systemwide ILS Page.
December 10, 2018
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!
December 8, 2018
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.
December 7, 2018
The McHenry Library and the Science & Engineering Library will be closed December 22, 2018 thru January 1, 2019 for Winter Break.
Regular quarter hours resume Monday, January 7, 2019. See the library hours page for more information.
November 27, 2018
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.
November 20, 2018
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 in-text and bibliography citations in your research papers.
Get tips on avoiding plagiarism, learn ways of keeping track of ideas, and about campus and online resources.
When: 7:00 - 8:00pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Where: McHenry Library, Room 2353
Free refreshments provided by the Library Student Advisory Council. Open to all undergraduates.
November 19, 2018
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.
November 13, 2018
A Scholar’s Reflections on Weathering a Political Backlash.
The University Library invites you to join us for a talk by Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor of Economics and Director of The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research
Tuesday, November 27th at 10:30am in the Digital Scholarship Commons, Ground Floor, McHenry Library.
In 2008, Teresa Ghilarducci proposed a government run 401K style retirement program for workers and testified before Congress about her plan. Her comments went viral on far right websites where her ideas were distorted and attacked. Soon death threats emerged and extra security was required at her University office.
In her talk, professor Ghilarducci will discuss this instance of backlash against the academy from the perspective of a female scholar as well as strategies for countering persistent false and threatening narratives. Her talk will also examine how she combatted the false narrative against her and her work and was able to use the attention to advance progressive economic reform. Introduction by Brent Haddad, Professor of Environmental Studies,
In her own words: My Life as a "Dangerous Woman" in Retirement Income Journal.
Light refreshments will be available. Please let us know if we can expect you by November 20th. RSVP link.
October 29, 2018
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October 29, 2018
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?
The Undergraduate Experience Team is pleased to share this resource with you.
October 18, 2018
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
October 18, 2018
Need help with your writing—essays, papers, resumes, or applications? Help is on the way!
Mondays 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. McHenry Library Room 2359
Wednesdays 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. McHenry Library Room 2359
Fridays 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. McHenry Library Room 2359
Workshops are held from October 8th - December 12th
No appointment is necessary!
The Writing Studio is an open writing, working, and reading space that encourages peer to peer collaboration and cross-disciplinary discussion where students can work individually or collaboratively with peers, read, brainstorm, draft, and work with other writers and develop long-term writing skills. Studio tutors are available to facilitate connections between students, recommend writing resources and next steps for your writing and help with specific questions about essays and writing.
The Writing Studio is a partnership between Learning Support Services (LSS) and the University Library.
October 17, 2018
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.
October 3, 2018
Since 2011, the UCSC Library has provided peer-to-peer and point-of-need help to library users. Our crew of intrepid and friendly library ambassadors wearing bright yellow vests can help you 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 OPERS Fall Festival during Fall Welcome Week.
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!
October 2, 2018
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!
Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team
October 1, 2018
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
October 1, 2018
Use Search to discover books, ebooks, journals, full-text scholarly articles, newspaper articles, archival finding aids, images, videos, music and more.
What is Search?
Search is a discovery tool that searches across catalogs, databases, and online indexes to deliver the most relevant results from the Library’s diverse holdings.
How should I use Search?
Search is great for getting access to items the Library owns and for casting a wide net in your research. Because Search includes more resources, you can expect more results. Facets and filters are provided for quickly refining your search to those results most relevant to you. For example, you can limit your search to specific resource type (e.g., books, peer-reviewed articles), subject or date range.
What features are available?
- Mobile-friendly responsive design
- Millions of results from catalogs, databases, and indexes
- Filters and facets for quickly refining search results
- Virtual browsing and article recommendations
- Options for saving searches, exporting citations and creating search alerts
- Seamless Interlibrary Loan request options
Sign in with your Cruz Gold ID to access your Library Account
We are excited to continue to develop this tool to meet the needs of our community. We welcome your feedback, problem reports and suggestions for new features via the Feedback button within Search. If you have any questions, see our Library Search Guide or Ask a Librarian.
October 1, 2018
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!
September 19, 2018
Read the full Summer 2018 Library Newsletter.
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September 19, 2018
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
August 10, 2018
All seats in our upcoming usability sessions have now been filled.
Thank you for your interest!
August 10, 2018
McHenry Library and Science & Engineering
September 1 - September 26, 2018
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Closed Saturday & Sunday
Closed Monday September 3rd for Labor Day.
See the hours page for more details.
July 23, 2018
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.
July 23, 2018
Check out the library's new digital exhibit, A Touch of Greymarket: Capitalism at the Grateful Dead Show, created by 2017-2018 CART Fellow Gabriel Saloman Mindel.
This 360-degree interactive exhibit gives online viewers (and listeners) another way to explore the exhibition "Put Your Gold Money Where Your Love Is, Baby": Counterculture, Capitalism, and the Grateful Dead, curated by Jessica Pigza, Alix Norton and Gabriel Saloman Mindel, now on view at Dead Central.
June 13, 2018
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.
June 7, 2018
Did you miss Love on Haight: The Grateful Dead and San Francisco in 1967?
Take a 360-degree virtual tour!
- Explore the virtual exhibit through photographs, posters, videos and music
- Move between exhibit spaces and interact with colorful tags
The Love on Haight: The Grateful Dead and San Francisco in 1967 exhibit was open from May 2017-May 2018 in the Brittingham Family Foundation Dead Central, McHenry Library. It featured materials from multiple UCSC library collections, including posters, photography and ephemera from the Grateful Dead Archive and photographs from Ruth-Marion Baruch's 1967 Haight-Ashbury series.
This Virtual Tour was created using a tool called thinglink.
June 6, 2018
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.
April 29, 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.
April 28, 2018
We will be closed Wednesday, July 4, 2018 for Independence Day.
We will return to regular summers hours on Thursday, July 25th.
April 26, 2018
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.
April 25, 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.
April 25, 2018
Saturday, May 26th, 2018
- Due to a planned power outage on Saturday, May 26, McHenry Library will be closed.
- The Science & Engineering Library will be open.
Monday, May 28, 2018
- McHenry Library & the Science & Engineering Library will be closed Monday, May 28, 2018 for Memorial Day.
We will return to normal hours on Tuesday, May 29th.
April 24, 2018
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.
April 21, 2018
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!
April 20, 2018
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
April 20, 2018
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.
April 19, 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.
April 8, 2018
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
No appointment is necessary!
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.
April 8, 2018
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.
April 6, 2018
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.
April 4, 2018
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
April 2, 2018
The Library’s Start Your Research guide:
- Provides an overview of the research process
- Has tips to help you articulate your research topic
- Will help you locate scholarly articles and books with tutorials for Cruzcat and Academic Search Complete
- Has advice on the best ways to evaluate the sources you want to use
- Will help you create an annotated bibliography and cite your sources correctly
And if you still need help you can always Ask A Librarian!
Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.
April 2, 2018
Read the full Spring 2018 newsletter online.
Subscribe to the newsletter to have it delivered directly to your email inbox!
April 1, 2018
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.
April 1, 2018
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!
March 27, 2018
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.
March 26, 2018
- 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.
- We'll be closed Friday March 30, César Chávez Day
- Regular quarter hours resume Monday, April 2nd, 2018.
- See the library hours page for more details.
March 23, 2018
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.
March 20, 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 spring quarter.
Brought to you by the Library’s Undergraduate Experience Team.
March 8, 2018
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.
March 8, 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 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.
March 7, 2018
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.
March 6, 2018
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.
March 6, 2018
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
No appointment is necessary!
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.
March 6, 2018
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.
February 27, 2018
Tuesday, March 6th
5:30 - 6:30pm
McHenry Library, Room 2353
- Get what you need for your assignment
- Learn about library resources
- Learn about search strategies
- Get hands-on help from friendly experts
Free pizza provided too! Brought to you by the Library's Undergraduate Experience Team and this year's Professional Career Development Intern.
February 23, 2018
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
February 16, 2018
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.
January 29, 2018
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).
January 8, 2018
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.
January 8, 2018
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.
January 8, 2018
Read the full Fall 2017 newsletter online.
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January 8, 2018
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.
December 14, 2017
- McHenry Library and the Science & Engineering will be open 8am-5pm Tuesday - Friday, January 2-5, 2018. We'll be closed over the weekend, January 6-7.
- Regular quarter hours resume Monday, January 8, 2018.
- McHenry Library and the Science & Engineering will be open 8am-5pm from Dec. 18-Dec. 22.
- The libraries will be closed from Dec. 23 through Jan. 1, 2018. See the library hours page for more information.
- Amazon Juices in the McHenry Global Village Cafe:
- Open 8am-3pm from Jan. 2-Jan. 5, 2018
- Closed Jan. 6-7, 2018
- Reopen regular hours on January 8, 2018.
- Open 8am-3pm from Dec. 18-Dec. 22.
- Closed Dec. 23-January 1, 2018.
December 14, 2017
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!
December 7, 2017
CQ Researcher provides award-winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of today’s fast-paced news.
- Reports are written by experts, are footnoted, and professionally fact-checked.
- All reports include an overview, historical background, brief chronology, pro/con debate feature, plus recommended books and articles for additional research.
- Shorter "Hot Topics" articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students.
- Perfect for getting to know a topic for a paper, exploring issues for ideas, or keeping up with the news.
- Easy to browse, and easy to search.
- All reports are 100% full text.
- Available online 24/7.
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.
December 2, 2017
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.
November 29, 2017
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.)
November 21, 2017
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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November 20, 2017
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.
November 16, 2017
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!
November 13, 2017
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:
- Comply with journal/funder data sharing policies
- Find relevant data repositories
- Upload your data into a repository
- Ensure your data is citable & reusable
- Understand “metadata”
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.
November 11, 2017
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
Inventor
SEO / Technology Consult
Community Leader
Featured on Oprah's Big Give
More Information
Snacks provided!
November 5, 2017
The Library will be closed Friday, November 10, 2017 for Veterans Day. Please see the Library Hours page for our full schedule.
October 31, 2017
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 23, 2017
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:
- Move data from Google Drive or Dropbox and publish via Dash
- Quickly create a data management plan using the DMPTool
- Request a DOI to link your research data to your journal article or funder website
- Link your data to your publication in eScholarship
All are welcome!
October 23, 2017
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.
October 23, 2017
Fill out the application form to apply to join the LSAC!
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 20—see the LSAC homepage for full details
October 23, 2017
Both McHenry Library and Science & Engineering Library are open regular quarter hours beginning Thursday, September 28, 2017.
September 22, 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
- McHenry Library: 11am
- McHenry Library: 1pm
- McHenry Library: 3pm
- Science & Engineering Library: 1pm
Monday, September 25th
- McHenry Library: 11am
- McHenry Library: 1pm
- McHenry Library: 3pm
- Science & Engineering Library: 1pm
Tuesday, September 26th
- McHenry Library: 11am
- McHenry Library: 1pm
- McHenry Library: 3pm
- Science & Engineering Library: 1pm
Wednesday, September 27th
- McHenry Library: 11am
- McHenry Library: 1pm
- McHenry Library: 3pm
- Science & Engineering Library: 1pm
Thursday, September 28th
- McHenry Library: 11am
- McHenry Library: 1pm
- McHenry Library: 3pm
- Science & Engineering Library: 1pm
Friday, September 29th
- McHenry Library: 11am
- McHenry Library: 1pm
- McHenry Library: 3pm
- Science & Engineering Library: 1pm
September 18, 2017
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
September 13, 2017
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.
August 12, 2017
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
August 2, 2017
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
- Click Sign Up in the upper right
- Go to the "Institutional Account" tab
- Input your UCSC email address and fill out the name and password fields
- Click on the Create My Account
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
July 13, 2017
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.
July 13, 2017
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.
July 12, 2017
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.
June 28, 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.
June 26, 2017
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
June 15, 2017
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.
June 15, 2017
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.
June 1, 2017
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.
- S&E circulation holds and ILL books will be available at the McHenry Circulation Desk.
- S&E Reserves will be unavailable during intersession.
If you need books from the Science & Engineering collection, please use the S&E Library Book Paging Form.
May 18, 2017
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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May 17, 2017
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April 27, 2017
The VPN client (Cisco Anyconnect) can be installed on any computer or mobile device. Once installed, you will be able to easily and securely access online library resources from off campus. To set up the VPN, visit the following web page: http://its.ucsc.edu/vpn/installation.html
If you need further assistance or have questions, please submit an IT Request ticket at http://itrequest.ucsc.edu, or contact the ITS Support Center by email help@ucsc.edu, telephone 459-HELP(4357), or in-person Kerr Hall Room 54.
April 12, 2017
Read More on This Topic:
- A coalition of scientists keeps watch on the U.S. Government's Climate Data
- These heroic guerrilla scientists and librarians are racing to save environmental data from Trump
- Government Data at Risk
- UCSC Newscenter: Rescuing data and shoring up environmental agencies in the Trump era
Observed U.S. Precipitation Change Map Image courtesey UCGCRP
April 2, 2017
Learn more about the Grateful Dead Archive and visit our current exhibit, Imagining the Dead, before it ends on April 30, 2017.
April 2, 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.*
Hosted by: University Library and Graduate Student Commons
February 17, 2017
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.
February 14, 2017
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.
Free refreshments!
Sponsored by the UCSC Student Advisory Council
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January 20, 2017
McHenry Library will be open from 11am - 7pm (regular Saturday hours).
Please see the Hours Page for our full schedule.
December 9, 2016
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.
November 30, 2016
• 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.
November 15, 2016
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October 24, 2016
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.
October 3, 2016
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
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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.
October 3, 2016
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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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