See organizer’ page for details. Join other students and get your bearings with a 3-in-one tour of the Doe Memorial Library, Moffitt Undergraduate Library, and the Main Stacks. See these central libraries and learn about the student services they provide. … Continued
Elsevier is the largest scholarly publisher in the world, disseminating about 18 percent of journal articles produced by UC faculty. As of July 10, UC’s direct access to new Elsevier articles has been discontinued. Members of the UC community no … Continued
Summer is the time for Documentaries at Doe, a summer film series showcasing thought-provoking independent documentaries in the libraries’ video collection. This event is free and open to the campus community. All screenings will be held in Doe Library, room … Continued
Bernardo S. Hinojosa, a PhD student in Literature, spent his summer at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies (PIMS) in Toronto, working towards a diploma in Manuscript Studies, and conducting research.
Now that you have defended your dissertation and it has been approved, it’s time to make it available to other scholars! Dissertations are now filed electronically, so the Library can make a digital version available for the whole world to … Continued
Need Wi-Fi While You’re Traveling? The newly announced campus Wi-Fi options include a bonus for faculty, staff and students who are traveling to other universities — the eduroam (education roaming) service now allows you to use your Airbears2 key to gain access … Continued
In September, the newly remodeled Social Research Library re-opened in 227 Haviland Hall. Sign up for the monthly blog, Library Researcher at Berkeley for the UCB libraries (for advanced users). Upcoming library exhibits: Birds Do It, Bees Do It: A Century of Sex … Continued
To welcome back students this fall semester, the Library is delivering new services to make your time at the library more efficient! A newly designed Library website is also now available. To find out more about copyright and fair use policy, visit the new copyright page on the … Continued
The UC Berkeley Library has a collection of thousands of scholarly journals that can now be delivered to your mobile devices. Just download BrowZine, a tablet application, on your iPad, Kindle or Android devices and you can start reading those … Continued
Preview the Library’s new website and submit your feedback. This month the Library launches the Electronic Devices Lending Program. Students can borrow laptops or iPads for four hours at a time (one renewal, no overnight). Have questions about copyrights? The new UC Copyright website might be just the … Continued
Do you have questions about copyright? The UC Copyright website provides information on policies and laws and how to apply them to academic and scholarly work, making it easier than ever for UC faculty, students and staff to get guidance … Continued
From the Rise of Islam through the Dawn of the Computer Age, from pop-up books and cartoons to architectural dreams that failed to materialize, the Library collections are on display now. Check out the current exhibits in campus libraries: “Unbuilt … Continued
The Graduate Division hosted the New Faculty Reception for 63 newly hired faculty, many of whom gathered at the Morrison Reading Room to become acquainted with resources available to faculty working with graduate students.
Sometimes referred to as “the University’s living room,” Morrison Library provides a tranquil atmosphere with comfortable furnishings and an elegant ambience for students, faculty and staff.
The UC Berkeley Library licenses over 200 article databases, covering all disciplines.
Spend a few minutes now to get acquainted with the Library services and resources, and save yourself time later!
Students with print disabilities will benefit from conversion of text to alternative-media format in timely fashion.
The campus libraries wish you a Happy New Year and, as the new semester begins, provide you with some quick reminders and resources.
Tips on how to get the most out of the 11 million items in Berkeley collections, from the experts.
With funding from the Council on Library Resources/Digital Library Federation, the UCLA Library has created a new postdoctoral fellow position in data curation. Geared for a recent Ph.D., the new position will be part of the UCLA Library’s eScience team, … Continued
Graduate students are important users of the University Library, and University Librarian Tom Leonard wants your input on which ways the Library will change in the next few years. He says “I ask that you take the time to answer … Continued
The University Library is quietly launching a pilot program to enable library users to return checked out materials from any campus library to any other campus library. They’re not quite ready to announce this to all library users but would like graduate students … Continued
Current exhibits; The Heyns and Rosberg reading rooms have reopened; New electronic resources; Time-saving reminders.
Say goodbye to the”Classic” MELVYL library catalog; New library mobile website; Equitrac copy cards expire on June 30, 2011
Moffitt Library and Gardner (main) Stacks will be extending 24-Hour Study to include RRR Week and Finals Week this semester. For spring semester 2011, Moffitt Library and Gardner (main) Stacks will be open continuously from Sunday, May 1 at 1 p.m. through Friday, May 13 at 7 p.m.
If you own a green and white Equitrac copy card to use in printing and copying the campus libraries, you have until June 30, 2011 to use up the value on the card.
Now it’s back to the real world with classes to teach, seminars to engage, experiments to plan, qualifying exams to study for, breakthroughs to realize, manuscripts to finish, and hoods to don!
Tom Leonard and I have both been where you are: in graduate school. Mine was Cornell (Ph.D., 1988), while Tom’s was right here at Cal (Ph.D., 1973). We both know how difficult it can be to find the right time … Continued
