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Glyphosate Dreams, an art installation by the 2023 UCSF Library Artist in Residence Katina Bitsicas, is now on display on the main floor of the Kalmanovitz Library at Parnassus Heights through June 2025!

Katina’s work explores the herbicide glyphosate and its impact on our bodies and land. You can learn more about Katina’s installation and residency at, library.ucsf.edu/news/glyphosate-dreams-by-katina-bitsicas-2023-artist-in-residence/ .

The UCSF Library Artist in Residence program is supported by UCSF’s Archives and Special Collections and Makers Lab.

Thank you, Katina, for being such a fantastic partner with the UCSF Library!

⚠️ UCSF STUDENTS: There is a scheduled power shutdown that will impact the Hearst Reading Room on Saturday, July 13, 7 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Looking for another study space? The Hub at Mission Bay (inside Mission Hall) is available 24/7 with a UCSF ID badge. https://www.library.ucsf.edu/hub/

In observance of Independence Day, the Kalmanovitz and FAMRI libraries will be closed on Thursday, July 4. Both libraries will reopen to UCSF ID holders on Friday, July 5, at 7:30 a.m.

The Hearst Reading Room (student-only study space) at Parnassus Heights and The Hub at Mission Bay are accessible 24/7 with a UCSF ID.

For library hours, please visit library.ucsf.edu/about/hours/.

Photo Credit: Susan Merrell, 2019

July is Disability Pride Month!

In celebration, the Library has collaborated with the UCSF Office of Disability Accessibility and Inclusion to acquire five audio books by disabled authors and activists for our community to enjoy. These titles include:

❤️ “Black Disability Politics,” by Sami Schalk (2022)
💛 “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice,” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2018)
🤍 “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century: Unabridged Selections,” by Alice Wong (2020)
💙 “Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally,” by Emily Ladau (2021)
💚 “About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times,” edited by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (2019)

UCSF affiliates can access these titles and request hard copies via interlibrary loan through search.library.ucsf.edu.

REMINDER: Applications for the Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute (ADHHI) are due NEXT WEEK, Friday, June 28!

The Institute is a two-year program for health humanists, medical historians, community organizers, and digital humanists. Participants will be introduced and oriented with humanistic and computational methods used by the digital health humanities to support their respective projects.

The Institute aims to foster new conversations and connections across disciplines and career levels. We especially encourage non-tenure track faculty, independent researchers, graduate students, practicing physicians, and community organizers to apply. This program is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Apply by June 28! ➡️ tiny.ucsf.edu/addhi

In observance of the Juneteenth holiday, the Kalmanovitz and FAMRI libraries will be closed on Wednesday, June 19. Both libraries will reopen to UCSF ID holders on Thursday, June 20, at 7:30 a.m.

The Hearst Reading Room (student-only study space) at Parnassus Heights and The Hub at Mission Bay are accessible 24/7 with a UCSF ID.

For library hours, please visit library.ucsf.edu/about/hours/.

Photo Credit: Susan Merrell, 2019

Applications for the Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute (ADHHI) are OPEN!

The Institute is a two-year program for health humanists, medical historians, community organizers, and digital humanists. Participants will be introduced and oriented with humanistic and computational methods used by the digital health humanities to support their respective projects.

The Institute aims to foster new conversations and connections with participants from various disciplines and career levels. We especially encourage non-tenure track faculty, independent researchers, graduate students, practicing physicians, and community organizers to apply. This program is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities .

Learn more and apply at https://tiny.ucsf.edu/addhi

DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, June 28, 2024.

In observance of Memorial Day, the Kalmanovitz and FAMRI libraries will be closed on Monday, May 27. Both libraries will reopen to UCSF ID holders on Tuesday, May 28, at 7:30 a.m.

The Hearst Reading Room (student-only study space) at Parnassus Heights and The Hub at Mission Bay are accessible 24/7 with a UCSF ID.

For library hours, please visit library.ucsf.edu/about/hours/.

Photo Credit: Susan Merrell, 2019

UPDATE: The Kalmanovitz Library and Hearst Reading Room at Parnassus Heights have reopened to UCSF ID badge holders as of 7:30 a.m.

Please visit our hours page for more information

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The Kalmanovitz Library and Hearst Reading Room at Parnassus Heights are currently closed to all visitors.

The FAMRI Library and The Hub (24/7 study space) at Mission Bay are open to UCSF ID badge holders.

For all library hours, please visit library.ucsf.edu/about/hours.

We invite you to celebrate the opening reception for "Glyphosate Dreams," a multimedia exhibition by the UCSF Library 2023 Artist in Residence, Katina Bitsicas! 🌱

⏰ June 13, 4 - 6 pm
📍Kalmanovitz Library
ℹ️ UCSF ID required

This exhibition visually translates the destructive herbicide glyphosate into chemically deteriorated images and an interactive augmented reality (AR) experience reflecting on its consequences to body and land.

Katina's work incorporates correspondence between the EPA and Monsanto from the Roundup Litigation Documents within the UCSF Industry Documents Library.

The reception will include an overview of the exhibition and a conversation with the artist. The exhibition is on view through June 2025.

Register ➡️ tiny.ucsf.edu/GDreams613

Join our team! We have an opening for a data science instructor to provide empowering, foundational data science training to UCSF learners, faculty, and staff.

Learn more at http://library.ucsf.edu/about/jobs

Jewish American Heritage Month is celebrated in May!

We have added seven new titles by Jewish and Jewish American authors to our popular reading collection for our community to enjoy!

Browse or borrow these titles via UC Library Search. https://search.library.ucsf.edu

- "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl
- "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" by Harold S. Kushner
- "Jewish Literacy" by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
- "Living a Jewish Life" by Anita Diamant
- "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom
-"Night" by Elie Wiesel
-"Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

We are excited to add seven new titles by Asian and Asian American authors to our popular reading collection for our community to enjoy! Browse or borrow these titles via UC Library Search. https://search.library.ucsf.edu

- "How to Write an Autobiographical Novel" by Alexander Chee
- "Stay True" by Hua Hsu
- "The Chinese Groove" by Kathryn Ma
- "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki
- "Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning" by Cathy Park Hong
-"The Sympathizer" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
-"The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese

April is Poetry Month! 📜🖋

To celebrate, we are highlighting poems by the poet and nurse Margaret Helen Florine, RN. These three poems and 64 more are from her book, “Songs of a Nurse” published in 1917. Florine was born in San Francisco in 1879 and worked as a nurse at Fabiola Hospital located at the intersection of what is now Broadway and West MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, California.

You can access the digitized volume held in the UCSF Archives and Special Collections at tinyurl.com/MHFlorine

Learn how to get the best results from your database searches!

The Super Search workshop will show UCSF learners and researchers how to get a handle on database logic, build complex search strategies, leverage search features in PubMed, World of Science and Embase, and how to set up alerts to stay informed when new articles are published in your field.

The workshops are held virtually on:
- Wednesday, April 10, 12:10 - 1 p.m. PT
- Tuesday, May 14, 2:10 - 3 p.m. PT
- Friday, June 14, 10:10 - 11 a.m. PT

Register ➡️ tiny.ucsf.edu/SuperSearch

April is Arab American Heritage Month!

We are excited to add five new titles by Arab and Arab American authors to our popular reading collection for our community to enjoy. Browse or borrow these titles via UC Library Search.

- "A Woman is No Man" by Etaf Rum
- "Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America" by Laila Lalami
- "How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?" by Moustafa Bayoumi
- "I Was Their American Dream" by Malaka Gharib
- "Love, InshAlla: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women" edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi

In observance of the César Chávez holiday, the Kalmanovitz and FAMRI libraries will be closed on Friday, March 29. Both libraries will reopen to UCSF ID holders on Monday, April 1, at 7:30 a.m.

The Hearst Reading Room (student-only study space) at Parnassus Heights and The Hub at Mission Bay are accessible 24/7 with a UCSF ID.

For library hours, please visit library.ucsf.edu/about/hours/.

Photo Credit: Susan Merrell, 2019

📣 Call for Artist in Residence reminder: Apply by Sunday, March 24, 2024!

The UCSF Library Archives and Special Collections and Makers Lab are seeking candidates who will promote health humanities by exposing and re-purposing historical materials preserved within the UCSF Archives and Special Collections. The artist will collaborate with the Makers Lab to create pieces that explore the connections between art and the health sciences.

The residency period is July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025 and the selected artist will receive $8,000.

Possible projects can include, but are not limited to:
- painting
- photography
- performance
- sculpture
- 3D scanning and 3D printing
- programmable electronics
- digital, video, or installation art

To learn more and apply go to tiny.ucsf.edu/2024ArtistInResidence

You could win a $50 Amazon gift card by taking our writing support needs survey! Don't delay, the survey closes Friday, March 22.

Your feedback will help us identify opportunities to support academic and grant writing on campus.

🔗 tiny.ucsf.edu/2024WritingSurvey

Happy International Women's Day! 🎉

We celebrate the many women of UCSF past and present, and their integral contributions in advancing health sciences and health care for all.

Top row: Sarah Gomez Eriach, RN (left) and Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Pharm D.

Middle row: Aiko (Grace) Obata Amemiya, RN (middle) and two former students who were turned away from their education as part of the Japanese-American internment under Executive Order 9066 and Joanne Lewis (right).

Bottom row: Nola Hylton, PhD (left), Florence Stroud, RN (middle left), Uta Landy, PhD (middle right) and Lucy Field Wanzer, MD (right).

"Uncertainty in Medicine" podcast series — the NOCTURNISTS The Nocturnists teams up with Alexa Miller to create a new documentary podcast series about "Uncertainty in Medicine." Even though uncertainty sits at the heart of clinical medicine, it's rarely talked about in a system that prides itself on expertise while gripped by defensive practice. T

Happy Women’s History Month! ♀🎉

There are so many incredible , and we are pleased to highlight Mary B. Olney, MD.

Olney graduated from UCSF School of Medicine in 1932, completed her training in pediatrics at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, and was later appointed a clinical professor of pediatrics at UCSF.

In 1938, she founded the first wilderness camp in California for children with diabetes.

The UCSF Archives and Special Collections has digitized the Mary B. Olney papers, including photographs, reports, ephemera, and correspondence and you can access them online at calisphere.org/collections/26305/.

Are you a UCSF researcher, educator, learner or staff member?

We are seeking your input on writing support needs via our survey. Your feedback will help us identify opportunities to support academic and grant writing on campus.

Participants can also enter to win one of five $50 Amazon gift cards!

Survey closes March 22 ➡️ tiny.ucsf.edu/2024WritingSurvey

February 26 - March 1 is Fair Use Week!

��Fair use allows limited copying, reproduction, or distribution of excerpts from copyrighted works without the authorization of a copyright holder. ��We benefit from fair use in our daily lives. Some examples include:

🔁 Re-posting a meme or parody video to social media

🔍 Accessing news items or articles through a search engine

🗣️ Quoting another researcher’s work in a presentation

The UCSF community can learn more about fair use and get some free snacks from our table on Tuesday, February 27, from 12 - 1 p.m. at the Kalmanovitz Library.

Celebrate Fair Use Week 2024 at the UCSF Library Fair Use Week 2024 is February 26 - March 1! Join the UCSF Library at our tabling event on the main floor of the Kalmanovitz Library on Tuesday, February 27, from 12 - 1:00 p.m....

In observance of Presidents' Day, the Kalmanovitz and FAMRI libraries will be closed on Monday, February 19. Both libraries will reopen to UCSF ID holders on Tuesday, February 20, at 7:30 a.m.

The Hearst Reading Room (student-only study space) at Parnassus Heights and The Hub at Mission Bay are accessible 24/7 with a UCSF ID.

For library hours, please visit library.ucsf.edu/about/hours/.

Photo Credit: Susan Merrell, 2019

🎞️🎥 Did you know that UCSF affiliates can stream movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos for FREE with Kanopy?

Browse thousands of titles related to medicine, culture, science, education, art, music and more.

Learn more and start streaming ➡️ https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/stream-with-kanopy/

Join us in celebrating Color Our Collections Week, February 5 - 9, 2024! This week libraries, archives, and museums around the world share their rare and special collections materials for all to enjoy in the form of coloring pages! 🖍️🖌️

Download the pages created by our Archives and Special Collections Team at https://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/university-of-california-san-francisco-coloring-book-2024/

Share your artwork by tagging us and using hashtag . We look forward to seeing your creativity! ✨

We 💙 UCSF student feedback!

Your responses to the 2024 Student Services Survey help campus units improve our services to fit your needs. By completing the survey you will be entered to win one $500 gift card or one of 20 $50 Amazon gift cards. The survey closes tomorrow, February 7!

tiny.ucsf.edu/2024StudentSurvey

Calling all UCSF students! We encourage you to participate in the 2024 Student Services Survey, now open through February 7!

This survey seeks your feedback on services offered campus-wide across all degree programs. We want to learn more about your student service experiences and what’s important to you so we can serve you best.

Students who complete the survey will be entered to win a $500 gift card of the winner’s choosing or one of 20 $50 Amazon gift cards.

Take the survey ➡️ tiny.ucsf.edu/2024StudentSurvey