Established in 2017 to commemorate the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive’s 30th anniversary, the Southeast Asian Archive Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award is given annually to an individual researcher who lives outside of Orange County. Named in honor of Anne Frank, the archive’s founding librarian who retired in 2007, the $1,000 award is intended to defray the cost of traveling to Irvine, California to conduct hands-on research within the archive.

Each year, UCI Libraries award four UC Irvine undergraduate students with the Nellie Ansley Reeves Awards for their outstanding senior theses. Presented at the annual Campuswide Honors Collegium banquet, the awards are accompanied by a $250 prize. In 2023, due to the high-quality of research and writing among candidates, the award committee recognized five graduating seniors with the award.

UCI Libraries invite you to celebrate Pride Month with the help of our resources. Learn about key LGBTQ+ milestones and figures at UC Irvine, in Orange County, and beyond. Our research guides and archival collections document political, social, and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and up to the present day. Also enjoy books, films, and art created by LGBTQ+ artists and honoring the community.* 

Unless they specify a UCI login, these materials are available to the public year-round, at no cost.

UCI Libraries have assembled resources for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. Home of the broad and interdisciplinary Southeast Asian Archive, the Libraries are proud to make accessible an expansive collection of documents, oral histories, images, and more. We also encourage you to explore movies, digital collections, archived exhibits, as well as books that can be accessed year-round and that emphasize AAPI communities’ diversity, resilience, and histories.

To find out more about the UCI Libraries’ latest exhibit, Inside Reading Minds: Grunigen Medical Library R_xEAD Posters, 2006–2020, we talked to the exhibit curators: Anna Arrieta (she/her/hers), Grunigen Medical Library (GML) Interlibrary Loan library assistant; Cynthia Johnson (she/her/hers), head of Reference and GML; and Sakhile Sithole (she/her/hers), GML library assistant and IT liaison.

The University of California announced today an expansion of the university’s open access agreement with Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers. Building on the success of a 2022 pilot agreement at five UC campuses, including UC Irvine, researchers at all 10 UC campuses will now receive funding support to publish open access, making significantly more UC research freely available to people around the world.