This collection contains articles, slides, newsletters, correspondence, and other material on Dr. Martin M. Barnes, past University of California, Riverside, professor of entomology and plant pathology. Barnes' research was focused on the practical needs of agriculture. The bulk of the collection contains information on pests in California agriculture and information of his professional life at Cornell University and at the University of California, Riverside, Citrus Experiment Station.

The collection consists of materials from Max Bartell, an engineer responsible for multiple water development projects and reports for the city of San Francisco in the early 20th century. Materials in the collection include correspondence, reports, documents, news clippings, and photographs, concerning water supply sources for San Francisco, Calif., other California regions and municipalities, the Tuolumne River, and the Hetch Hetchy Project.

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, documents, and memoranda, relating to California's Central Valley Project, Lake Tahoe, East Bay Municipal Utility District, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and public water and power supply system for other California municipalities.

This collection contains several drafts of the manuscript of Mr. Traven, I presume? by author Michael L. Baumann as well as correspondence between Baumann (or his wife) and Peter Briscoe and Sid Berger, both former staff members of the UC Riverside Libraries, regarding his publications.

This collection contains manuscripts, publications, press clippings, correspondence, and other material regarding Gregory Benford, an American science fiction author and astrophysicist. Included are Benford’s academic and literary works, his collection of fanzines, and press clippings on both his academic and literary career.

This collection contains correspondence, press clippings, and other material regarding B. Traven collected by Sid Berger, former Head of Special Collections & Archives at University of California, Riverside. Includes items related to the publication of B. Traven materials, the 1999 Traven Conference in Stockholm, and the controversy surrounding the identities of Ret Marut and B. Traven.

This collection is comprised of photographs, correspondence, programs, and other material pertaining to former professional ballet dancer Joyce Berry. Notable materials in the collection include correspondence with dance companies, photographs of dancers, notebooks, and performance programs from the early to mid-20th century.

The collection consists of reports pertaining to consumptive water use by irrigated crops and native vegetation in desert areas of Southern California, Arizona, and other parts of the Southwest; to irrigation costs in California; to irrigation in Israel; and to irrigation and water supply studies of the Pecos, Colorado, and other rivers.

The collection consists of notes, memoranda, correspondence, speeches, reports, maps, photographs, and records relating to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Central Valley Project, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Region, salinity, the Delta hearings, water rights, acreage limitations, the Reber Plan, fish and wildlife, USBR/CVP contracts and leases, floods and flood control, and miscellaneous power and energy issues.

The collection consists of the papers of Ben Bova, an award winning science fiction author and former editor of Analog Magazine. Materials in the collection include correspondence, notes, contracts, and other information related to Bova's literary career.