Take a virtual stroll through images of surfing in Santa Cruz in the early 1970's.
 

Browse these images from the UCSC University Library's treasury Digital Collections as well as items from the Library Catalog.

Extended hours for Spring 2013 Finals: June 5 - June 12, at both McHenry and Science & Engineering libraries.

The McHenry Library now has Chromebooks available for checkout! 

Current UCSC students, faculty, and staff may borrow Chromebooks from the Circulation Desk at McHenry Library. Find more details here on borrowing laptops, iPads, loan periods, availability and more.

Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library
May 10, 2013
1:30 - 4:30 PM

Author Elizabeth Graver will be speaking on campus as part of the Living Writers Series on May 9. 

New exhibit: "Songs of Our Own: The Art of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon" opens April 27.

The University Library and Bay Tree Bookstore have partnered to bring a learning supplies vending machine to McHenry Library.

The UCSC University Library Synergy Lecture Series is excited to welcome Distinguished Professor Dr. Barry Sinervo as our Synergy Lecturer for Spring 2013.

He will present a climate change extinction model that has been validated by known lizard extinctions, and explain how this model can be extended to other vertebrates.

Did you know that petting an animal can lower feelings of stress, lower blood pressure and improve your sense of well being? The UCSC Library is piloting a therapy dog drop-in program.

Take a break from studying and visit Layna the therapy dog. 

6:00-8:00pm (just inside the library entrance) 
 

Thursday, March 14, McHenry Library
Friday, March 15, S&E Library 
Saturday, March 16, McHenry Library

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The California Digital Library and its partners were awarded a $590,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund further development of the popular Data Management Planning Tool (DMPTool) in 2013. The bulk of the grant will go to the UC Curation Center (UC3) at the CDL to fund improvements to the DMPTool including expanded functionality, training modules, documentation and the creation of an open-source community to sustain the DMPTool in the future. Project partners are the University of Virginia Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, and DataONE.

Datasets are the currency of scientific and intellectual advancement. Despite this reality, most researchers are not aware of how best to manage their data. The DMPTool, launched in October 2011, is a freely available web application that addresses this need by guiding users through the process of creating a data management plan for a range of funders.

The current version of the DMPTool provides an easy to use interface that:

• Helps users create data management plans for specific funding agencies,
• Provides step-by-step instructions and guidance for how to manage data, and
• Provides information about resources and services available to researchers to help fulfill the data management requirements. 

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funding will support a second version, DMPTool2, that will:

• Promote the practice of data management, sharing, and preservation, emphasizing the utility of best practices beyond meeting funder requirements.
• Enable institutions to easily shape and exploit the DMPTool to meet local need.
• Foster the emergence of an engaged open source community of DMPTool users and developers.
• Maintain transparency in all project activities to facilitate community involvement. Increase the depth and breadth of the tool’s coverage for funder and institutional data management requirements.
• Enable collaboration and connect stakeholders to each other and institutional resources, including services, expertise and guidance.
• Provide support for the full data management life cycle, including provision for collaborative plan authorship, and review and reporting by institutional administrators.

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A new pilot fund, sponsored by the California Digital Library and the UCSC University Librarian, supports UCSC faculty members, lecturers, post-docs, and graduate students who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication.  The goals of the fund are to advance the impact of, and increase access to, UCSC research and scholarship; to support innovative models of scholarly publishing; and to aid UCSC faculty, students, and staff who want to publish in open-access journals but who do not have other sources of funding to cover article-processing fees.  

McHenry and Science & Engineering Library Winter Intersession Hours:

Dec. 13, 2012 -  Jan. 6, 2013

Monday – Friday       8am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday   Closed

CLOSED Dec 22 - Jan 1 Campus Closure

Regular Winter Quarter hours begin 1/7/13

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Laptop lock anchors now available

McHenry Library 4th floor

Make sure to vote on Tuesday, November 6, 2012!

The University Library now provides even more help for our users with a very special group of roving student information assistants.

Tuesday, October 23rd 2012, 7:00-8:30 PM
McHenry Library, 4th floor, Room 4286

With cookies and lemonade from Global Village Cafe by Hoffman's

Read the full text of 20,000+ articles from the past nearly 50 years of American and British popular-music journalism, from publications as widely known as Rolling Stone, Creem, Melody Maker, and New Musical Express to specialist titles like Goldmine, Option, Billboard, and Record Mirror. 
There's also an audio section featuring over 300 interviews with music personalities: http://library.ucsc.edu/find/databases/a-z?search=backpages
 

Welcome Week Library Tours 2012

New and upgraded content is now available for these online resources:

• AGU Digital Library Books
• Congressional Hearings
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
• Times Digital Archive (TDA)

Global Village Cafe Hours Change

As of Monday, August 6th, the Global Village Cafe will open at 9:00 a.m. instead of 8:00 a.m. The hours will be:

• Monday - Thursday   9am - 5pm
• Friday   9am - 3pm
• Saturday - Sunday   12noon - 5pm

These hours will be in effect through September 26th.

Stop by our breakout session at Orientation to hear why the library is an invaluable tool for students. A UCSC librarian will be on hand to answer your questions and talk about what brings students to the library as well as how the library can save you money. Also you will learn about library services that are critical for success in the classroom.

Request service and MyILL will be unavailable from 5pm on Friday, July 13, 2012 until 8am on Monday, July 16, 2012.