Services

Ask a Librarian For quick questions, text 66746 and start your message with ucrlib. (Example: “ucrlib what time can I drop off reserves until?”) Online chat also available 24/7 at: library.ucr.edu/research-services/ask-a-librarian

Creat’R Lab Orbach Library, first floor Rooms 140, 144 & 145 library.ucr.edu/creatr-lab

Open to all UCR students and faculty, the Creat’R Lab is an innovation makerspace for learning, experimenting, designing and collaborating; this is where new technologies, curiosity and creativity come together. Equipment includes 3D printers, 3D scanners and associated software, basic hand tools, electronics for prototyping, tools for working with textiles, paper, and more.

Research Services

• (951) 827-3316

https://library.ucr.edu/research-services

The Research Services department provides consultations, resources and services focused on finding and using information resources, planning and conducting research projects, working with data, mapping and geospatial information, publishing and sharing research, supporting patent and trademark searching, and innovating with 3D printing and maker technologies.

Teaching & Learning

• (951) 827-4392

https://library.ucr.edu/instructional-support

The department of Teaching and Learning supports student success by providing course-related instruction sessions, supporting hybrid instruction with iLearn modules, designing library guides for course research, and providing consultations beyond course-related library instruction.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery Services 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.

Patent & Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) Main floor, Orbach Science Library

• (951) 827-3316

https://library.ucr.edu/ptrc

The PTRC houses U.S. utility and design patents and offers online assistance with searching the USPTO patent and trademark databases to both the general public and the UCR community. Poster Printing Orbach Library, Room 121

UC Riverside students, faculty, and researchers can print academic doc- uments up to 12’ long. Accepted payments are Bear Bucks or department recharge.

For hours, guidelines, policies, pricing, and general information, visit: guides.lib.ucr.edu/plotter

K-12 Curriculum Resources Basement, Rivera Library

The circulating collection of K-12 Curriculum Resources offers a variety of materials, manipulatives, textbooks, and award-winning children’s literature to support the work of students in the 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.

Special Collections & University Archives Director: Cherry Williams Rivera Library, fourth floor

• (951) 827-5354

Special Collections contains an extensive collection of rare books, man- uscripts, archives and other unique or fragile materials in subject areas including agricultural, botanical and natural sciences, STEM related sub- jects, local and State history, literary and cultural studies, ethnic studies, dance, artists’ books, miniature books, and art history. In addition to the collections described below, notable collections include the Citrus Experiment Station records, the Sadakichi Hartmann Papers, the Oswald Jonas archive, the Avery E. Field photograph collection and the Sabino Osuna papers.

University Archives houses the official historical records of the Universi- ty of California, Riverside including faculty papers and documentation of student life and activities.

Tomás Rivera archive In 1985, the Rivera Library was re-named for Tomás Rivera, the first Mexican-American UC Chancellor (UCR 1979-1984). The Archive includes approximately 85,000 items including biographical works and correspon- dence, as well as literary, educational, and civic materials. Rivera’s legacy as Chancellor, educator, poet, novelist, and civic leader are captured in the depth of the archive.

Water Resources Collections and Archives (WRCA) Orbach Library Special Collections and University Archives, Rivera Library, fourth floor

• (951) 827-2934

The WRCA is the premier collection devoted to water resources in Califor- nia and the west, including more than 280 archival collections, 180,000 technical reports, 6,000 archival maps, and 45,000 historic photographs pertaining to water development from the 1900s to the present.

Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy One of the world’s largest, richest and deepest research collections of science fiction, fantasy, horror, utopian literature and related genres, the Eaton Collection contains more than 100,000 printed books, full runs of most pulp magazines, approximately 100,000 fanzines, film and visual material (including 500 shooting scripts from science fiction films), and the archives of prominent writers including Robert Forward, Jerry Pournelle, Anne McCaffrey, and the Poul & Karen Anderson papers. Also included are collectibles, ephemera, and realia as well as almost 100,000 comic books, anime and manga. Tuskegee Airmen Collections Part of a national effort to collect and preserve the history of the first Af- rican Americans to serve as pilots in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen Collections contain personal letters, diaries, pho- tographs, memorabilia, posters, oral history interviews, documentation of careers before, during, and after military service as well as books by and about the Tuskegee Airmen, and African American military history.

Rupert Costo Library of the American Indian The Costo Library documents Native American history and culture in multiple-media formats including approximately 7,000 volumes and more than 9,000 documents, pamphlets, tape recordings, slides, baskets, pottery and artwork.