UC Merced Library

Puzzle Table at UC Merced Library! 🧩

We’re so excited to announce that 3 puzzles have been completed since we started our puzzle table in KL 355.

Thank you to the student that shared their photo with our second floor services desk team after they completed the puzzle!

If you would like to be featured as well, please share your photos with us through Instagram or email us at [email protected]. 💙💛

UC Merced Student Success Internship!

Build a campus digital twin.

Explore how drone machinery, and ArcGIS can be used to build a 3D Digital Twin of the UC Merced Campus.

Apply in Handshake by Friday, September 18! 💙💛

The Library 🫶 Division of Equity, Justice, and Inclusive Excellence Latinx Kickoff 2026 💙💛

We had such a great time connecting with our campus community at Latinx Kickoff 2026!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table and a huge thank you to Division of Equity, Justice, and Inclusive Excellence for inviting us to such a fantastic event! 💙💛

September 11, 2001.

Always remember. Never forget 🤍

Library Administrative Coordinator, Tracey Aue attends the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb Challenge hosted by UC Merced Police Department

Remembering Nicholas P. Chiofalo
Fireman, FDNY #235
Captain, Truck #1
Selden, New York
September 22, 1961 - September 11, 2001

Nicholas Chiofalo, a firefighter in Bedford-Stuyvesant and a fire chief in Selden died along with five other New York City firefighters from Brooklyn’s Engine 235 in the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11. He was last seen entering the South tower to help evacuate people. His engine company, except for the driver, was lost. No remains were recovered.

Nicholas was a firehouse cook, prankster, and family man and had just ended a 24-hour shift when he called his wife, Joan, to say he was needed in Manhattan, he would call when he could, and that he loved her. That was the last his family heard from him.

Joan Chiofalo said that she wasn’t surprised her husband rushed into the building to help. “When he called me that morning and said he was going I knew he wasn’t coming back,” she said. “When that building came crashing down, so did the rest of my life.”

Nicholas was memorialized at the Selden Fire Department along with two others, at the fire station. They did a shadow box with all Nicky’s personal belongings and it’s hanging behind Nick’s truck, engine number one.

He grew up in Bay Shore, with a brother and two sisters, and “found light in everything,” his mother said of her third-born. “He took everything lightly, he turned everything around.”

For a third job, he worked as a pyrotechnics engineer with Fireworks by Grucci, a company that sets off Fourth of July fireworks display in New York City. The job resulted from a letter of condolence he sent to the company after an explosion killed several employees. Chiofalo married his wife in 1981 and they have a son together, Nicholas Jr.

September 11, 2001. We will never forget.

A table shows an American flag, books, small fire engine trucks, and other items commemorating September 11, 2001.

Tracey Aue and others checking in at the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb hosted by UC Merced Police Department o