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On Exhibit: That's Entertainment: Dan Guerrero and the Making of a Hollywood...
A new exhibition in the Library highlights the life of performer, producer, and director Dan Guerrero, who Hispanic Magazine recognized as "one of the 25 most powerful Latinos in Hollywood." This...
View Article"Hunger for Justice" Display on View in South Hall
Demonstrating the power of collaboration, a multidisciplinary and multi-generational team of faculty, students and archivists went to work to put up a new campus photo display entitled, "Hunger for...
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Thousands of Manuscript Collections Now Cataloged
Concluding an 18 month project by three library departments, nearly all of the manuscript collections in Special Collections<read more
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Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens Rare Books Coming to UCSB
UC Santa Barbara Library is pleased to announce an agreement with the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden to house the Garden’s rare book collection, containing over 750 titles dating back to the seventeenth...
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New International Sound Recording Collections
Two new international 78prm collections have been added to the historical sound recordings archive in Special Collections.read more
View ArticleDiscography of American Historical Recordings Unveiled
The Library is pleased to announce the public availability of the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR), a new online database that expands upon and will replace the Encyclopedic...
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Featured Collection Item: Manuscript Bible, c. 1297
This Latin Bible, c. 1297, is one of the earliest held in the UCSB Library’s Special Collections. Originally from the library of King James II, the ruler of Aragon (now in Northern Spain) from 1291 to...
View ArticleA Note for Special Collections Researchers
Special Collections Researchers:Beginning on Monday July 7 and continuing throughout the summer, construction activities in Special Collections may result in delays retrieving materials for patrons and...
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Upcoming Exhibit: Images of Africa
UCSB Library (Special Collections, Third Floor) September 2014 - January 2015read more
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On Exhibit: Images of Africa
A new exhibition in the Library's Department of Special Collections focuses on Africa, drawing upon research materials in Special Collections by and about Africans over the past 400 years. Included...
View ArticleGoodbye Paper Forms; Hello Special Collections Research Account
The Library has launched a new, personalized Special Collections Research Account, offering researchers an efficient way to manage Special Collections visits and requests online – anytime and from...
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On Exhibit: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: Roots, Resistance, and...
Indigenous peoples of the Americas, despite struggles, have maintained and strengthened their identity. This interdisciplinary exhibition explores their cultural and political heritage, and examines...
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Featured story: Turkish Music Collection covered by The UCSB Current
Echoes of the Ottoman EmpireThe UC Santa Barbara Library has acquired a sizable collection of classical Turkish music recorded from the early to mid-20th centuryBy Sonia FernandezWednesday, February 4,...
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Poet, Translator, and UCSB Professor Emeritus John Ridland Donates Papers to...
Flower pushes through the root,which drinks the rain, eats the earth,and dreams its snow-white dream.— From the poem “Root” by Miklós Radnóti, a Hungarian poet and Holocaust victim, translated by John...
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Travel Channel to Feature Flag from Library's Collection (Fri., May 29, 9 pm)
A flag in UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections associated with the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement will be featured in an episode of the Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum. The...
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UCSB Acquires Major Chicano/Latino Graphic Art Collections
The UCSB Library has acquired two individual art collections from the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) in San Francisco’s Mission District. Together they consist of thousands of...
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UCSB Contributes to Audio Preservation Guide
Heat, humidity, fingerprints, ink, dust, time, and compression are all enemies of audio preservation, whether the recording is in the form of a wax cylinder, LP, cassette tape, compact disc, or digital...
View ArticleUpcoming Collection Moves -- Impact for Library Users
We are eagerly anticipating the completion of the Library Addition and Renovation project, and with that, the move of various collections into their new, respective areas. The collections are art,...
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On Exhibit: For the People, By the People: Government at Work in Santa...
UCSB is involved in a project to digitize, preserve, and store historic minute books of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors dating back to 1850. Once the handwritten ledgers are digitized,...
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