Resources for Learning

Executive Director: Sheila Bergman Deputy Director: Emily Papavero 3824 & 3834 Main Street Riverside, CA 92501

• (951) 827-3755

artsblock.ucr.edu

UCR ARTSblock opened to the public in 2010, bringing together the California Museum of Photography (founded in 1973), the Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Art Gallery (1963), and the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts (2010). Located three miles from UCR’s main campus, ARTSblock is located on a single block in adjacent historical buildings along the pedestrian mall in downtown Riverside. Housed in two renovated department stores from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ARTSblock’s adaptive reuse enlivens the city’s downtown core.

By merging the already established photographic museum and university art gallery with the new, multi-disciplinary Culver Center, ARTSblock serves as a cultural anchor for both the University and the broader Inland Empire communities. ARTSblock organizes provocative and timely art exhibitions, performances, screenings, and other programs with the aim of invigorating the cultural life of artists and residents of Southern California, nurturing creative and critical thinking on campus and in the community, and promoting the importance of the arts for a healthy society. ARTSblock offers innovative programs that engage diverse audiences, nourish the imagination, and challenge assumptions.

The extensive art, photography, and research collections of the CMP and Sweeney Art Gallery make ARTSblock an important destination for audiences as well as researchers working in a wide range of fields.

ARTSblock’s activities embody UCR’s commitment to broadly-based public education and cutting-edge research. As a university museum and art gallery, ARTSblock is committed to offering students opportunities for professional museum work. Students from UCR and elsewhere are involved under the aegis of independent course status, internships, work- study, and as volunteers.

California Museum of Photography

The California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock is devoted to showing the work of contemporary artists who use photography, collaborating with UCR faculty and students to bring their varied expertise to the public in exhibitionary form, and to preserving and making accessible its vast holdings of photography and related apparatus.

Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Art Gallery

The Sweeney Art Gallery presents significant regional, national, and international art, and hosts annual MFA and Senior Show exhibitions for students in UCR’s Department of Art. As an artistic laboratory, the gallery engages diverse audiences with exhibitions committed to experimentation, innovation, and the exploration of art in our time. Since 2010, the Sweeney Art Gallery is located in the Culver Center, and exhibitions frequently expand into the Culver Atrium.

The Sweeney’s permanent collection focuses on work produced since 1990.

Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts

The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts hosts art installations, a weekly film program, and musical, dance, and theatrical performances in a dynamic setting. Recognizing that artists play a crucial role in society, the Culver Center also hosts a robust program of lectures, symposia, and community forums with artists, filmmakers, playwrights, dancers, and musicians. The main level is home to an expansive atrium gallery beneath a 40’ high skylight, the Sweeney Art Gallery, a 72-seat screening room, and a forthcoming café. On the second level, the Culver Center houses a Media Lab, two dance studios with sprung wood floors, a black box equipped with green screen, and a sound recording studio. In the lower level, the California Museum of Photography’s important Keystone-Mast Collection of stereographs is preserved in state-of-the-art seismically isolated cabinets.

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Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO: Danna Gianforte. Computing and Communications Building (subject to name change)

• (951) 827-4741; cnc.ucr.edu

Information Technology Solutions provides technology services and support to faculty, staff, and students.

Application and Multimedia Development (951) 827-6424; amd.ucr.edu AMD provides custom web application development that will help departments improve their business processes. AMD applications are secure, robust, and take advantage of campus infrastructure. Applications can be accessed online via most browsers using UCR’s Central Authentication System. AMD also brings cutting-edge graphic design, concept development and visualization services to the academic and administrative community through various multimedia distribution channels (e.g. 3D animations, videos, illustrations, print posters & brochures.) AMD also produces custom graphics and illustrations for grant proposals, and research publications.

Communications Services (951) 827-4624; dial@ucr.edu This division provides data and voice communication needs for the campus.

Computer Support Group (CSG), helpdesk (951) 827-3555; helpdesk@ ucr.edu This division provides desktop computing support to faculty and staff, including installations, troubleshooting, consulting, and assistance with acquiring and using stand-alone or networked desktop and laptop computers.

Technology Group (951) 827-3555; helpdesk@ucr.edu This unit is responsible for the iLearn Learning Management System (Blackboard) and provides training via workshops and support to faculty and instructors in its use. Departmental and individual consultation is available to faculty in curricular redesign and the pedagogical use of instructional technology in the classroom.

Multimedia and Classroom Technology (951) 827-3041; multimedia.ucr.edu This division provides support in distance learning, classroom technology and multimedia systems to support faculty, staff, and students with their academic and nonacademic events.

Student Technology Support (951) 827-6495; helpdesk@student.ucr.edu; scs.ucr.edu Supports campus computer labs, student e-mail, iLearn, wireless network, and VPN. Computers are available in Watkins Hall, Sproul Hall, Olmsted Hall, and the Arts Building. Webprinting and Bear Help student technology support available at the HUB Information Desk.

University Librarian: Steven Mandeville-Gamble, M.L.I.S.

• (951) 827-3221; stevenmg@ucr.edu; library.ucr.edu

The UCR Library serves as an information commons and intellectual center for the campus and is the focal point for research and study at UCR. The collections include nearly 4 million print volumes, 500,000 e-books, 143,000 serials, and thousands of multimedia materials. The library also provides access to hundreds of databases and state-of-the-art information technology. The library has three facilities: the Tomás Rivera Library, the Raymond L. Orbach Science Library, and the Music Library. Wireless network access is provided throughout all library buildings, and the vast majority of electronic databases and other resources can be accessed remotely by UCR students, staff, and faculty. The UCR Library ranks among the 120 largest research libraries in the U.S. and Canada and is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information, the Digital Library Federation, and the Center for Research Libraries.

The UCR Library provides a variety of user services designed to enhance the academic experience. Library facilities have many comfortable spaces for study, intellectual exploration, and relaxation including study carrels, tables, and comfortable chairs and couches. The Rivera Library and Orbach Science Library provide technology-enhanced group study rooms, some of which can be reserved online, and lend laptops, headphones, and other items. Computers, printers, copiers, and scanners are available in all three library facilities. During the academic year, the Rivera and Orbach Libraries are open until midnight Sunday through Thursday, and the Orbach Library is open 24 hours during finals week. Hours vary during intersession and summer quarter. The library also provides off-campus access to electronic resources and mobile services. Introducing UC Riverside / 10 Tomás Rivera Library

• (951) 827-3220, rivref@ucr.edu

The Rivera Library provides access to materials in the humanities, social sciences, and arts, housing more than 2,000,000 volumes. It is also home to spaces where faculty, researchers, and students across disciplines collaborate on innovative digital research and teaching projects.

Raymond L. Orbach Science Library

• (951) 827-2821, sciref@ucr.edu

Materials in the Orbach Science Library support life and physical sciences including engineering, agriculture, and medicine. The ground floor Map Room contains physical maps and atlases as well as access to GIS systems and data. The Orbach Library is also home to the Creat’R Lab and the Patent and Trademark Resource Center.

Music Library

054 Arts Building

• (951) 827-3137, muslib@ucr.edu

The Music Library provides music scores, music sound recordings and a small number of current journals and reference books to support teaching and research. Equipment is available for listening to CDs, DVDs, and LPs.

Research and Instructional Services

Rivera Library Reference Desk: (951) 827-4392 Orbach Science Library Reference Desk: (951) 827-3316 Music Library: (951) 827-3137 Ask A Librarian (available 24/7): library.ucr.edu

Creat’R Lab

Main floor, Orbach Science Library

library.ucr.edu/creatr-lab

The Creat’R Lab is an innovation space for learning, experimenting, designing, and creating; this is where new technologies, scientific curiosity, and entrepreneurship come together. Equipment includes 3D printers, 3D scanners and associated software, basic hand tools, electronics for pro- totyping, tools for working with textiles, paper, and more. Experts provide individual consultations as well as workshops on tools, conceptual skills and entrepreneurship.

Interlibrary Loan Services (ILL) and Document Delivery Ser- vices

ILL (951) 827-3234

UCR students and faculty may use ILL to borrow materials from other libraries.

Document Delivery Services offers paging of books and journal articles located at the UCR Library. This service is provided for UCR faculty, graduate students, and staff, as well as undergraduates with disabilities.

K-12 Curriculum Materials

Second floor, Rivera Library

This circulating collection of K-12 curriculum materials offers a variety of formats, textbooks used in local schools, and award-winning children’s literature to support the work of students in the Graduate School of Education’s Teacher Education programs.

Government Documents

Main floor, Rivera Library

• (951) 827-4392

The UCR Library serves as a selective depository for U.S. federal and California state government publications.

Patent & Trademark Resource Center (PTRC)

Main floor, Orbach Science Library

• (951) 827-3316

The PTRC houses U.S. utility and design patents, and offers online assis- tance in searching the USPTO patent and trademark databases to both the general public and the UCR community.

Water Resources Collections and Archives (WRCA)

Circulating Collection

Main floor, Orbach Science Library

• (951) 827-3316

The WRCA is the premier collection devoted to water resources in California and the West. The WRCA is comprised of over 200 archival collections, 180,000 technical reports, 6,000 archival maps, and 45,000 historic photographs pertaining to water development from the 1900’s to the present.

Special Collections & University Archives

Fourth floor, Rivera Library

• (951) 827-3233

Special Collections contains an extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, archives, and other unique or fragile materials in subject areas including agricultural, botanical, and natural sciences; ethnic studies; history of the arts; history of California and Riverside; and literary and cultural studies. In addition to the collections described below, notable collections include the Citrus Experiment Station records, the Sadakichi Hartmann Papers, the Oswald Jonas archive, the Tomás Rivera Archive Memorial Collection, the Avery E. Field photograph collection and the Sabino Osuna papers. University Archives houses the official historical records of the University of California, Riverside.

Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Eaton Collection is the world’s largest collection of science fiction and fantasy, containing more than 100,000 hardback and paperback books, full runs of most pulp magazines, approximately 100,000 fanzines, film and visual material including 500 shooting scripts from science fiction films, writers’ archives (including Robert Forward, David Brin, and Anne McCaffrey), collectibles, ephemera, and realia as well almost 100,000 comic books, anime, and manga.

Tuskegee Airmen Collections

The Tuskegee Airmen Collections are part of a national effort to collect and preserve the history of the first African Americans to serve as pilots in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. The collections contain personal letters, diaries, photographs, memorabilia, posters, oral history interviews, documentation of military service as well as pre- and post-service careers, books by and about the Tuskegee Airmen, and African American military history.

Rupert Costo Library of the American Indian

The Costo Library contains about 7,000 volumes and more than 9,000 documents, pamphlets, tape recordings, slides, and artwork relating to Native Americans in the United States and the world.