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Episode 5 Transcript: Holiday Special with Librarians

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In this holiday special, we are having two guests from the UCR Library, Mary-Michelle Moore, our STEM Teaching Librarian and Michele Potter, our Collection Strategist for STEM. We discuss library resources and services, along with behind-the-scenes stories that showcase the people and processes that support them.

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NuclearGuard AI Agent-Assisted Radiation Anomaly Detection and Operator Decision Support Using Gamma-Ray Spectral Data

Tue, 2 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This presentation introduces NuclearGuard AI, an interactive nuclear safety dashboard that applies deep learning and anomaly detection to public gamma-ray spectral data. The prototype visualizes radiation spectra, anomaly scores, reconstruction errors, and spatial risk patterns to help identify suspicious radiological signals. Using Streamlit, Plotly, and machine learning models such as Isolation Forest and deep autoencoders, the project demonstrates how AI can support radiation monitoring, interpretable nuclear safety analysis, and operator decision-making.

Inaugural UCR AI Graduate Research Brown Bag Series Event Flyer

Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Inaugural UCR AI Graduate Research Brown Bag Series Event Flyer

Episode 9 Transcript: Habitability Beyond Earth

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Stephen Kane, Professor of Planetary Astrophysics at UC Riverside and Director of the Planetary Research Laboratory. We talk about planetary habitability, the divergence of Venus and Earth, the connection between science fiction and scientific research, and the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy.

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Episode 7 Transcript: From Empire to the Page: Power and Literature

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In this episode of The Reference Desk, we speak with Dr. Padma Rangarajan, Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Riverside, about how studying nineteenth-century British literature helps us understand the lasting influence of colonial law, translation policy, and imperial culture on contemporary political concepts. We also discuss her current projects, how she approaches interdisciplinary research, and how students and scholars can make effective use of library resources.

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Episode 2 Transcript: The Future of Intelligent Transportations

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Dr. Hang Qiu, an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, and the director of the Collaborative Intelligence Systems Lab(CISL) at UCR, discusses autonomous systems, mobile sensing, wireless networking, and how they are shaping the future of connected and automated vehicles and intelligent transportations. He also highlights how library services support this work and offers reading recommendations and his upcoming classes for interested listeners.

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Episode 3 Transcript: Why We Make the Choices We Do

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why do people sometimes make decisions that don’t serve them well? In this episode, Dr. Ye Li, Associate Professor of Management at UC Riverside and Director of the Behavioral Economics and Decision-making Lab (BEDLab), joins us to discuss the factors that shape our choices. He also shares how he integrates AI tools into his teaching practices and how library resources support his research and instruction. Finally, Dr. Li offers recommendations for those interested in exploring the field of behavioral economics.

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Episode 8 Transcript: Never Too Old to Learn

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In this episode of The Reference Desk, we speak with Dr. Rachel Wu, Associate Professor of Psychology at UC Riverside, about how people learn and how learning shapes cognition across the lifespan, from infancy to older adulthood. We also discuss her current research on learning and aging, her approach to research design, and the library resources that support her work and student researchers.

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Episode 4 Transcript: Music Composition and Technology

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How does technology shape the way we create and experience music? Dr. Ian Dicke, Professor of Composition in the Department of Music at UC Riverside, joins us to discuss the intersections of electronic music, sound design, and emerging technologies. His work explores the relationship between live performers and technology, often incorporating multimedia, interactivity, and social themes. We also talk about the role of AI in music composition and how digital archives can inspire new creative research.

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Episode 6 Transcript: What Fungi Can Teach Us About Life

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What can fungi reveal about evolution, biodiversity, and life on Earth? In this episode, Dr. Jason Stajich, Professor of Microbiology and Plant Pathology at UC Riverside, discusses how genomics and computational tools are used to study fungal evolution. We also explore the role of library resources in enabling open, collaborative scientific research.

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Episode 1 Transcript: Recovering Lost Voices: Indigenous Knowledge and Early America

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Dr. Alejandra Dubcovsky, a Professor of History here at UC Riverside discusses her journey into early American history, the importance of archives in recovering Indigenous voices, and how library services support her research. She also shares reading recommendations for listeners interested in history, storytelling, and community knowledge.

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Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun, Crystal Mun-hye Baik blends different genres, from narrative prose to epistles to ancestral mourning rites, to offer an intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement through the experiential lens of her family.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California Libraries.

Web-Based Pipeline for Standardized Event Window Stock Return Analysis and Research-Ready Visualization

Wed, 4 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This submission introduces a reproducible web platform that operationalizes event study methodology for equity price impact analysis with minimal user effort. The system is designed for research and classroom settings where consistency, traceability, and rapid iteration are essential. Users provide daily trading data through file upload and specify an event date through the interface. The platform then executes a standardized analytical pipeline that validates and cleans the input, computes daily percentage returns, constructs a fixed event window, and summarizes price impact by contrasting mean returns in the five trading days preceding the event with the five trading days following the event. The platform additionally produces research-ready visualizations that support the interpretation of pre-event anticipation and post-event adjustment dynamics. By replacing manual spreadsheet workflows with a consistent computational procedure, the platform reduces operational error,...

A Market-Oriented Business Model and AI System Design for Multilingual Business Card Intelligence

Wed, 4 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Business card digitization tools are widely available, yet many solutions remain focused on optical character recognition and contact storage rather than measurable networking outcomes. This paper develops an academic and market-oriented framework for an AI-based multilingual business card intelligence system designed to convert raw card images into structured contacts, prioritized action lists, and AI-assisted follow-up content. The study is motivated by a practical gap between data extraction performance and post-event relationship conversion. Existing literature supports the importance of human-in-the-loop information extraction workflows, privacy-aware data handling, and AI governance, but limited work links these domains to networking operations and event productivity. Using the current prototype design as an empirical design reference, this paper documents the system architecture, key parameters, and a quantitative scoring model for contact prioritization. The system...

Shadows of the Pacific Electric: Former Pacific Electric Rail Lines and Modern California Transit

Wed, 4 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the Spring of 1961, the last train of the Pacific Electric Railway left from the Huntington Building on the Pacific Electric Long Beach Line. The former railway has since become the point of focus for transportation planners, historians, and commuters. The Pacific Electric Railway in the 21st century has been the subject of significant romanticization and mythologizing by Californians. In an era where the challenges of daily commutes are becoming increasingly prescient, the Pacific Electric is a reflection of modern desires for modern regional public transit. This story map, maps the former lines of the Pacific Electric and compares them with existing modern public transit connections to visualize the continuity of services between modern transit and the former regional PE. From these comparisons, we can reevaulate the value of the Pacific Electric as a regional connectro and contextualize transit planning in the 21st century.

Amordidas Acompañadas: Deported Recipes of Survival

Wed, 4 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Amordidas Acompanadas: Deported Recipes of Survival is an autoethnographic and community-engaged project that examines how deported parents and their children re-generate connection through food. My parents were deported on May 9, 2012, one day before Mother’s Day, when I was sixteen years old. They lived in exile in Tijuana for twelve years, staying as close as possible to their children in South Central Los Angeles. The rupture created by this distance grew over time and intensified after my mother passed away in December of 2024. In searching for a way to live with this loss, I turned toward food. Cooking became the method I needed to move forward and understand how deported families survive separation.

This project centers the recipes I learn while cooking side-by-side with deported parents in Tijuana. Each meal carries stories, memories, and strategies of endurance. I turn these meals into recipe cards and bring them back to their children in the United States....

Bridging or broadening Gaps? AI-Assisted professional writing among native and non-native English Writers

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This study examines how AI influences existing differences in professional writing between native and non-native English writers (NEWs and NNEWs) in the United States, reflecting individuals’ task-related proficiency and language-based social positioning. We compare how these two groups integrate AI-generated content into their writing and include writing self-efficacy as a moderator to examine whether perceived task proficiency shapes the differences in AI use between the two groups. We also test an underlying social-psychological mechanism by examining the mediating role of perceived superiority: the extent to which participants judged the AI-generated text as better than their own writing. In an online experiment, 327 NEWs and NNEWs were recruited to write a job application cover letter for a hypothetical scenario. Participants were randomly assigned to receive AI-generated content written at either a simple or advanced lexical level and were asked to revise their letter as...

Native Women's History in Eastern North America before 1900

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This landmark anthology is an essential guide to the histories of Native women’s lives in earlier centuries. Sixteen classic essays, plus new commentary—many by the original authors, describe a broad range of research methods and sources offering insight into the lives of Native American women. The authors explain the use of letters and diaries, memoirs and autobiographies, newspaper accounts and ethnographies, census data and legal documents. This collection offers guidelines for extracting valuable information from such diverse sources and assessing the significance of a such variables as religious affiliation, changes in women’s power after colonization, connections between economics and gender, and representations of Native women.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California Libraries.

Death Stalks the Yakama: Epidemiological Transitions and Mortality on the Yakama

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yakama Reservation in the state of Washington. The work contains a valuable discussion of Indian beliefs about spirits, traditional causes of death, mourning ceremonies, and memorials. More significant, however, is Trafzer's research into heretofore unused parturition and death records from 1888-1964. In these documents, he discovers critical evidence to demonstrate how and why many reservation people died in "epidemics" of pneumonia, tuberculosis, and heart disease. Death Stalks the Yakama, takes into account many variables, including age, gender, listed causes of death, residence, and blood quantum. In addition, analyses of fetal and infant mortality rates as well as crude death rates arising from tuberculosis, pneumonia, heart disease, accidents, and other causes are presented....

Research-Creation using Open Source Tools: Playing the Archive in Hawk & Puma

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hawk & Puma is a minimalist pixel-art video game developed using open-source tools like Bitsy as part of a doctoral research-creation process. The game reimagines "El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno", a 400-year-old illustrated manuscript written by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala—an Indigenous Andean chronicler who denounced colonial violence in 17th-century Peru. This project bridges creative technology, archival research, and community collaboration to explore how digital storytelling can function as both scholarly inquiry and cultural preservation. The game was designed to function as a playable archive: a digital environment where players can engage with Guaman Poma’s ideas through movement, interactivity, and reflection. Pixel art inspired by his original ink illustrations, combined with an ambient Andean-influenced soundtrack, help immerse players in a stylized but critical interpretation of the manuscript. Beyond the game itself, this project...

3D Visual Poetry

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

3D Visual Poetry

Electronic Bee-Veterinarian: Safeguarding Honeybees Through Technology

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Electronic Bee-Veterinarian: Safeguarding Honeybees Through Technology

Multiscale Model of Keloid Scar Expansion

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Multiscale Model of Keloid Scar Expansion

Population Weighted Environmental Variable Database

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Population Weighted Environmental Variable Database

Anime Meets Antibiotics: A Visual Guide to Bacterial Resistance

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Anime Meets Antibiotics: A Visual Guide to Bacterial Resistance

Recent Variations in the Water Supply of the Western Great Basin

Wed, 6 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Recent Variations in the Water Supply of the Western Great Basin

Strategizing with Rialto

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever heard of a collection strategist librarian? Is your library considering moving from a traditional subject-based model to a functional model? Or, maybe you're just curious about how libraries can leverage Ex Libris products, particularly Rialto, to better manage our collections. In this session, we will give an outline of our library's functional model and our role as collection strategists, plus some advantages and disadvantages of the model. We will talk about strategies we have developed using Rialto, such as evidence-based acquisitions (EBA), selection plans, firm ordering, and more. We will also discuss challenges we have faced and what we have learned from our mistakes.

Journals accepting case reports

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Background: Few resources exist to support finding journals that accept case reports by specialty. In 2016, Katherine Akers compiled a list of 160 journals that accepted case reports, which many librarians continue to use 7 years later. Because journals' editorial policies and submission guidelines evolve, finding publication venues for case reports poses a dynamic problem, consisting of reviewing a journal's author guidelines to determine if the journal accepts case report manuscripts. This project aimed to create a more up to date and extensive list of journals that currently accept case reports. Case Presentation: 1,874 journal titles were downloaded from PubMed. The team reviewed each journal and identified journal titles that accept case reports. Additional inclusion factors included being indexed in MEDLINE, accessible on the internet, and accepting and publishing English language submissions. Discussion: The new journal list includes 1,028 journals covering 129 specialties...

Task-based functional neuroimaging in infants: a systematic review

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Background: Infancy is characterized by rapid neurological transformations leading to consolidation of lifelong function capabilities. Studying the infant brain is crucial for understanding how these mechanisms develop during this sensitive period. We review the neuroimaging modalities used with infants in stimulus-induced activity paradigms specifically, for the unique opportunity the latter provide for assessment of brain function. Methods: Conducted a systematic review of literature published between 1977-2021, via a comprehensive search of four major databases. Standardized appraisal tools and inclusion/exclusion criteria were set according to the PRISMA guidelines. Results: Two-hundred and thirteen papers met the criteria of the review process. The results show clear evidence of overall cumulative growth in the number of infant functional neuroimaging studies, with electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to be the most utilized and fastest...

The Eaton collection of science fiction and fantasy at UC Riverside: pasts, presents, and futures

Wed, 8 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Eaton collection of science fiction and fantasy at UC Riverside: pasts, presents, and futures

Fandom and Sexuality in the Archives: Collecting Slash Fan Fiction and Yaoi/Boys' Love Manga

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy at the University of California, Riverside contains a unique archive of slash fan fiction and yaoi/boys' love (BL) manga. Slash and BL refer to fanmade or commercially published works of male homosexual erotica or romance historically made for the pleasure and consumption of women. These fandoms have been a minor subject of academic scholarship for years, though few archives or libraries are actively acquiring them. In this article, we explore the value and challenges associated with collecting materials containing taboo subject matter. We contextualize this process with an overview of the history of archival theory, the emergence of critical archive studies, and the intersection of niche fan communities with feminist and queer studies frameworks.

UCR Library Digital Scholarship Working Group (DSWG) Report: Findings and Recommendations for a Digital Scholarship Program

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

UCR Library Digital Scholarship Working Group (DSWG) Report: Findings and Recommendations for a Digital Scholarship Program

Statement on Inclusion and Equity in Special Collections, Archives, and Distinctive Collections in the University of California Libraries

Tue, 5 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

We acknowledge historical absences in library collections, including those of the University of California Libraries. We will develop practices that counteract a paradigm of racist, sexist, and white-centered collecting, description, instruction, and access. Metadata, digital exhibits, and archival descriptions in particular have disadvantaged communities of color, limited points of subject-based access, and contributed to a culture of exclusivity and inequity. We commit to immediate and enduring work to elevate the narratives, perspectives, and expertise of the marginalized: those who identify as Black, Indigenous, persons of color, immigrants, women, disabled people, and those from the LGBTQ+ communities. We recognize that this work is iterative and ongoing, inherently risky, and messy, but entirely necessary.

‘A process where we’re all at the table’: community archives challenging dominant modes of archival practice

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Community archives have compelled shifts in dominant archival management practices to reflect community agency and values. To analyse these shifts, we ask: In what ways do community archives and their staff challenge traditional archival modes of practice? Do community archives work within or against dominant frameworks for institutional sustainability? Do community archives challenge or replicate dominant custody practices? Based on semi-structured interviews with 17 founders, staff and volunteers at 12 Southern California community archives, this research examines the diverse models of practice utilised by community archives practitioners that diverge from and challenge standard practices in the field. By addressing these questions, our research uncovers a variety of models of practice employed by communities in Southern California to autonomously create and sustain their archives.

‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: community archives and the importance of representation

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Through data gleaned from semi-structured interviews with 17 community archives founders, volunteers and staff at 12 sites in Southern California, this paper develops a new tripartite framework for understanding the ontological, epistemological and social impact of community archives. Throughout, it reflects the ways in which communities marginalized by race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender and political position experience both the profoundly negative affective consequences of absence and misrepresentation in mainstream media and archives (which it calls ‘symbolic annihilation’) and the positive effect of complex and autonomous forms of representation in community-driven archives (which it terms ‘representational belonging’).

Desenvolvendo uma tipologia de documentos relacionados aos direitos humanos

Thu, 4 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

O que torna um documento de arquivo um "documento de direitos humanos"? Quais tipos de documentos se enquadram nesse termo genérico? Como e por que podemos desenvolver uma tipologia desses documentos? O que está em jogo – eticamente, teoricamente e na prática – quanto às formas e razões pelas quais definimos e classificamos documentos como tal? Este artigo procura responder a essas questões delineando uma proposta de tipologia de documentos de direitos humanos, apresenta revisão de literatura que explora a história das definições de documentos de direitos humanos em estudos arquivísticos, bem como a discussão atual mais ampla na Ciência da Informação sobre as políticas de organização da informação. Em seguida, delineia a metodologia para a análise conceitual descrevendo as formas pelas quais essa metodologia será empregada para construir a categoria “documento de direitos humanos”. Conclui com uma proposta de tipologia dos documentos de direitos humanos, postulando que tais documentos...

Short-term geomorphic impacts of culvert removal following Best Management Practices in streams of northern California

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Short-term geomorphic impacts of culvert removal following Best Management Practices in streams of northern California

Piloting A Monitoring Program For CCC LWD Projects

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Piloting A Monitoring Program For CCC LWD Projects

A short-term assessment of spatial and temporal variations in water quality of the San Lorenzo River

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A short-term assessment of spatial and temporal variations in water quality of the San Lorenzo River

Hydrologic Analysis and Restoration Considerations for the Upper Klamath Lake Sub-Basin, Klamath County Oregon

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Aquatic ecosystems in the Upper Klamath Basin (Upper Basin), Oregon are degraded as a result of more than a century of land use alterations due to logging, dams, irrigated agriculture, and cattle grazing. These changes have led to degraded habitat conditions including decreased baseflow, loss of vegetation, increased stream temperature, fish impediments, and nutrient loading. All these factors negatively impact watershed function and resident fish populations, which have experienced severe declines in recent decades. The primary threats to fish populations include habitat loss, degraded water quality, barriers and entrainment, and predation and competition from non-native species. Millions of dollars have been spent since the late-1900’s to restore aquatic habitat in the Upper Basin primarily to improve the distribution and abundance of endangered and threatened fish species. This project details the hydrologic characteristics of three primary tributaries in the Upper Klamath...

Multifunctional Riverscapes: Stream restoration, Capability Brown’s water features, and artificial whitewater

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Multifunctional Riverscapes: Stream restoration, Capability Brown’s water features, and artificial whitewater

Biological and Physical Assessment of Streams in Northern California: Evaluating the Effects of Global Change and Human Disturbance

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Biological and Physical Assessment of Streams in Northern California: Evaluating the Effects of Global Change and Human Disturbance

Understanding wood-pool dynamics using long-term monitoring data from the Gualala River Watershed: What can we learn?

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Understanding wood-pool dynamics using long-term monitoring data from the Gualala River Watershed: What can we learn?

Restoring Regulation: An Assessment of the Regulatory Process for Restoration Projects

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Restoring Regulation: An Assessment of the Regulatory Process for Restoration Projects

A Conceptual Restoration Plan and Tidal Hydrology Assessment for Reconnecting Spring Branch Creek to Suisun Marsh, Solano County, California

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

A Conceptual Restoration Plan and Tidal Hydrology Assessment for Reconnecting Spring Branch Creek to Suisun Marsh, Solano County, California

Multifunctional Riverscapes: Stream restoration, Capability Brown's water features, and artificial whitewater

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Multifunctional Riverscapes: Stream restoration, Capability Brown's water features, and artificial whitewater

C(re)ek-storation Community Collaboration Site: North Fork of Strawberry Creek by La Loma and Le Conte Avenues