Resources for Learning
Catalog pages 11-13
UCR ARTS
3824 & 3834 Main Street Riverside, CA 92501
- (951) 827-3755
https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/
UCR ARTS 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, UCR ARTS 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, UCR ARTS’s adaptive reuse enlivens the city’s downtown core.
By merging the already established photographic museum and univer- sity art gallery with the new, multi-disciplinary Culver Center, UCR ARTS serves as a cultural anchor for both the University and the broader Inland Empire communities. UCR ARTS 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 soci- ety. UCR ARTS 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 UCR ARTS an important destination for audiences as well as researchers working in a wide range of fields. UCR ARTS’s activities embody UCR’s commitment to broadly-based public education and cutting-edge research. As a university museum and art gallery, UCR ARTS 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 ARTS 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.
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, and a 72-seat screening room. 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.
Information Technology Solutions
Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO: Matthew Gunkel Computing and Communications Building
- (951) 827-4741; its.ucr.edu
Information Technology Solutions provides technology services and support to faculty, staff, and students.
Network Services
- (951) 827-4624; dial@ucr.edu
This division provides network and voice communication needs for the campus.
Bear Help Helpdesk (951) 827-IT4U (4848); bearhelp@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.
Multimedia and Classroom Technology
- (951) 827-3041; multimedia.ucr.edu
This division provides support with classroom technology and multimedia systems to support faculty, staff, and students with their academic and nonacademic events.
Student Technology Support
- (951) 827-IT4U (4848); bearhelp@ucr.edu
Supports campus computer labs, student e-mail, Canvas, wireless network, and VPN. Computer Labs are available in Watkins Hall and the Arts Building. WEPA printers (aka web printing) are available throughout the UCR campus. Students can also check out laptops from laptop kiosks located in the Student Success Center, Rivera Library, Orbach Library, and the HUB.
University Library
University Librarian: Steven Mandeville-Gamble, M.L.I.S.
- (951) 827-3221; stevenmg@ucr.edu; library.ucr.edu
The UCR Library serves as the information commons, intellectual center and nexus for research and study on campus. Our collections include more than 4.2 million print volumes, more than 1 million e-books, 143,000 serials, and thousands of multimedia materials. The library also provides access to hundreds of databases and state-of-the-art informa- tion technology. Two library facilities (Tomás Rivera Library and Raymond L. Orbach Science Library) offer wireless network access on-site, and UCR students, staff and faculty can remotely access the library’s electronic databases and e-resources. Ranked among the 124 largest research libraries in the U.S. and Canada, the UCR Library is a member of the As- sociation of Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the Digital Library Federation.
In addition to our collections, our librarians and staff can provide a variety of services designed to enhance the academic experience, including Ask a Librarian, Creat’R Lab, Research Services, Teaching & Learning, Special Collections & University Archives, and Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Services. We also have Collection Strategists who can help acquire content in support of research, teaching and learning.
Library facilities offer many comfortable spaces for intellectual explora- tion, collaboration and relaxation including technology-enhanced group study rooms (some of which can be reserved online), mediascapes, study carrels, tables, and comfortable chairs and couches.
Rivera and Orbach Libraries can lend laptops, headphones and other items. Computers, printers, copiers and scanners are available in both library facilities.
During the academic year, Rivera and Orbach Libraries are open until midnight Sunday through Thursday, and Orbach Library is open 24 hours during finals week. Hours vary during intersession and summer quarter. During the COVID-19 pandemic, services and hours may change; check the website (library.ucr.edu) for availability. Tomás Rivera Library
- (951) 827-3220, rivref@ucr.edu
Rivera Library provides access to materials in the humanities, social sci- ences and arts, housing more than 2,000,000 print volumes. It also hous- es Special Collections and University Archives, the Teaching & Learning Center, the Center for Geospatial Studies, and the Health Professions Advising Center.
Raymond L. Orbach Science Library
- (951) 827-3701, sciref@ucr.edu
Materials in Orbach Library support the life and physical sciences, including engineering, agriculture, and medicine. It also houses the Creat’R Lab, the Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) and the Geospatial Resources section, which contains physical maps, atlases and access to GIS systems and data.
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
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 and digital scholarship 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
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
library.ucr.edu/ptrc
The PTRC provides resources for trademark, patent, and intellectual property research to both the general public and the UCR community. Poster Printing Orbach Library, Room 121
UC Riverside students, faculty, and researchers can print academic documents 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
Distinctive Collections
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) 827-3233
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, STEM related subjects, local and State history, Latin American studies, 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 photo- graph 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. The Costo Library was donated by Rupert and Jeanette Costo, co-founders of the American Indian Historical Society. Rupert Costo (Cahuilla) was a Native American author, publisher, and philanthropist. Jeanette Costo (Eastern Cherokee) was a journalist and activist.