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University Librarian Lorelei Tanji.
The academic year is flying by! With the winter quarter finals quickly approaching, the Libraries' have 100+ tabletop games available in Science Library – perfect for fun and stress relief. In addition, UCI students, staff, and faculty now have access to statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics with Statista.

I also invite everyone to view our Special Collections and Archives materials now on public display in our newest Langson Library exhibit, Electrifying Music: The Untold Story of Remi Gassmann, as well as two local exhibitions at the Great Park in Irvine and UCI's Langson Institute and Museum of California Art.

Finally, I am pleased to introduce Anastasia Armendariz, UCI Libraries' new rare books and special collections librarian. You can learn more about her as well as myself in this month's stories.
Lorelei Tanji
University Librarian
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UCI Libraries welcome new Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian Anastasia Armendariz.
Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian Anastasia Armendariz.
University Librarian Lorelei Tanji's personal life, undergraduate library experience, and professional library background.
UCI Libraries University Librarian Lorelei Tanji outside Langson Library.
The UCI Science Library has more than 100 tabletop games in all categories, such as science fiction, fantasy, block building, role-playing, and children’s games.
Blue tabletop games display in the Science Library.
Statista, a global data and business intelligence platform, is now available free of charge to all UCI students, staff, and faculty. UCI users can access Statista’s collection of statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries.
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In an homage to twentieth-century electronic music, Electrifying Music celebrates the life and legacy of Remi Gassmann, an American composer and pioneer in electronic sound and music. Best known for his innovative ballet scores and his soundtrack to Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds, Gassmann helped introduce twentieth-century audiences to new musical aesthetics and compositional styles and championed the emerging works of his contemporaries.
UCI's Langson Library
Now through December 2024
Natural Language: Contemporary Book Art surveys contemporary artists' books inspired by themes spanning through air, forest, and sea exploring nature, language, history, environment, and ecology. Curated in collaboration with UCI Libraries Special Collections and Archives and artists from around the world, this Great Park exhibition brings together cross-cultural perspectives through artistic excellence.
Great Park Gallery
Now through May 4, 2024
Spiritual Geographies explores how different religious outlooks shaped landscape painting in California between 1890 and 1930. The Langson IMCA exhibition brings together 36 works of art as well as rare books and archival materials from UCI Libraries Special Collections and Archives that trace how landscape imagery operated within religious discourse.
Langson Institute and Museum of California Art 
Now through June 8, 2024
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PHOTO/VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
A group of UCI students studies in the Science Library.
Anne LeBaron playing the harp and Michael Dessen playing the trombone on the stage in Langson Library.