While I am excited for everything that UCI Libraries have planned for this year, the new academic year and the release of our Annual Report also has me thinking about everything that we have already achieved. In our newly released Annual Report, you will learn about the ways that UCI Libraries are providing foundational support for our campus and community and are contributing to advances across the nation.

Other highlights this month include a new Libraries subscription to The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American oral history video collection, as well as the installation of a US Holocaust Memorial Museum special poster exhibit in Langson Library: Some Were Neighbors: Choice, Human Behavior, and the Holocaust. This exhibit challenges us to ask important questions as we reflect on the motives and pressures that influenced citizens' choices and behaviors during the Holocaust.

I encourage you to see Some Were Neighbors while it is on display in Langson Library, now through November 2023, during regular library hours. The Libraries are saddened by recent events and their reminder that we live in a time of violence. We hope this poster exhibit will help the community find teachable moments that will help us to remember, to learn, and to find relevance today.