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‘The Respect They Deserve’: Law Library Fights Intrinsic Bias by Reclassifying Indigenous Materials

May 12, 2023
By Gwyneth K. Shaw As part of its broader commitment to considering and fostering diversity and inclusion within its storied stacks, the Berkeley Law Library staff have taken on one prominent example of bias: Reclassifying books, periodicals, and other materials that cover America’s Indigenous people to their own place on the shelves. Library cataloger Kate Peck was inspired by a presentation at the American Association of Law Libraries’ annual meeting last summer. That talk, and the Berkeley...Read more

UC San Diego Library Gifted $10 Million from Foundation Trustee and Alumna Sally T. WongAvery

Jul 10, 2022
Donation establishes a transformative endowment dedicated to East Asian collections and will be recognized by renaming the Biomedical Library the Sally T. WongAvery Library University of California San Diego alumna and UC San Diego Foundation trustee Sally T. WongAvery ’75 is donating $10 million through the Avery-Tsui Foundation to support East Asian collections, research and scholarly activities at the UC San Diego Library . The gift, which establishes the Sally T. WongAvery Fund for East...Read more

University of California signs up to "Opening the Future" programme: Nine UC campuses have signed up through the California Digital Library (CDL) to Opening the Future

May 03, 2022
CEU Press and Liverpool University Press are pleased to announce that nine University of California (UC) campuses have signed up through the California Digital Library (CDL) to their Opening the Future collective funding programs. Under the terms of the deal, nine University of California campuses will receive unlimited, perpetual access to curated selections of the two publishers’ backlists: the support will enable both publishers to publish new, frontlist books in Open Access (OA) format...Read more
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Freeman Bradley: Pioneer of Medical Technology and Influential Black Caucus Founder

Jun 10, 2021
Freeman Bradley grew up in Alabama where, as a young man, he worked in the lab of Dr. George Washington Carver at the Tuskegee Institute. He attended Howard University in Washington D.C. and worked at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland for four years before coming to the Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) at UCSF. At the beginning of his career at UCSF, Mr. Bradley worked as a technician with Dr. John Severinghaus. In 1957 and 1958, combining technology created by Richard Stow...Read more
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College & Research Libraries Publishes Sexual Harassment at University of California Libraries Study Findings

Mar 08, 2021
Check out the March 2021 issue of College & Research Libraries (C&RL) to read "Sexual Harassment at University of California Libraries: Understanding the Experiences of Library Staff Members" by Jill Barr-Walker (San Francisco), Courtney Hoffner (UCLA), Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco (Merced), Nisha Mody (UCLA). In the first study measuring sexual harassment experiences of academic library employees at a single institution, the authors conducted a census of 1,610 nonstudent employees at the...Read more

R&PD Event Held on January 29, 2021

Mar 05, 2021
The LAUC R&PD Committee held an event on January 29, 2021, showcasing advice from past grant recipients. Thank you to our presenters and attendees who made the webinar a success! For those who could not attend, you can access the recording and other materials in Google Drive . Our speakers talked about how they got their ideas for research, what the research grant funded, and how the grant helped them complete their work. Hopefully by the time you watch the recording you will feel empowered...Read more
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UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections and Archives Acquires its First African Americana Collection

Feb 26, 2021
UC San Diego News Center announced this week its acquisition of its first African Americana Collection. The collection chronicles the African American Experience post-Civil War and documents migration west. The UC San Diego Library added the "African Americana collection—the Turner Collection—to its Special Collections & Archives (SC&A). Donated by Steve Turner, a UC San Diego alumnus ‘82 and an avid collector, the collection is comprised of more than 300 items including rare...Read more

With Fire Threatening, National Parks Turn to UC Merced for Help Preserving History

Nov 13, 2020
UC Merced's Newsroom reports on UC Merced Library's role in bringing the archives of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (SEKI) to campus due to fire risk on October 15, 2020. This piece speaks to the rescue effort, potential for on-going collaboration, and the rich resources located in the archive. View the full news report for more details about the park's history and highlighted archival materials from SEKI's archives curator Ward Eldredge.Read more

LAUC Endorsement of the Black Caucus of the ALA Statement

Jun 10, 2020
The Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) joins the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association and the Asian Pacific American Librarian Association (APALA) in endorsing the statement of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) in condemning the state-sanctioned killing and policing of Black people and other marginalized communities.Read more
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AI providing answers in libraries

Jan 07, 2020
UCI's Danielle Kane, Research Librarian for Emerging Technologies and Service Innovation, created ANTswers, an artificial intelligence to augment reference librarians.Read more

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