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May 19, 2014

My Ideal Library

What would you like your ideal library to be, do, or offer?  Here’s your chance to let us know!    Visit the Geisel East Learning Commons service desk (2nd Floor) before …

May 7, 2014

Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

Ruth Klüger was eleven years old when she and her mother were deported from her native Vienna to Theresienstadt, the Nazis’ “model ghetto.” Twelve grueling months later, she was deported …

May 5, 2014

Asian Pacific American Edit-a-Thon

Events: Open Lab: Thursday, May 8th, Geisel Library, Room 276, noon – 1pm APA Edit-a-thon: Saturday, May 10th, Geisel Library, Room 276, 10am – noon; or participate virtually! Refreshments will …

April 19, 2014

Reaxys Update

This week, Elsevier released an updated Reaxys interface with some new search features. Reaxys is one of the core databases to search chemical literature, particularly reactions and substance property data. …

April 17, 2014

Porrajmos: The Romanies and the Holocaust

The Holocaust claimed anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million Romani lives, a tragedy the Romani people and Sinti refer to as the Porrajmos, or “the Devouring.” Notwithstanding the scope of …

April 15, 2014

Recycle Your Used Pens @ The Library

Did you know the UC San Diego Library has an Environmental Sustainability Group? It collaborates with campus to implement ideas that help to create sustainable facilities at UCSD.  In the …