Thanks to generous support from the Gladys Kriebe Delmas Foundation, UC Santa Barbara Library recently completed a project to digitize portions of its historical sound recording collection of recordings made by Columbia Records in Italy between 1923 and 1950. During this golden age of Italian...
Tue, Nov 12, 4:39 pm | Gifts & Donors, Special Research Collections
At the intersection of Hollywood’s Golden Age and the rugged spirit of the American West stands the Carey family, a long line of entertainers who profoundly shaped the film industry in the 20th century and significantly contributed to the history and evolution of the Western cinema genre. The...
Fri, Nov 1, 9:32 am | UCSB Reads
The UC Santa Barbara Library and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor are pleased to announce the selection of the 2025 UCSB Reads book, The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay.
Now in its 19th year, UCSB Reads is an award-winning program that brings the campus and Santa Barbara communities...
New requirements from funding agencies and publishers to improve the reproducibility of scientific results, and to ensure that data and code products of grant-funded research are "Fair, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR)," have sparked an open science revolution. While the benefits of...
Wed, Oct 16, 8:41 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
In celebration of Open Access Week 2024 (October 21 - 27), the UCSB Library spoke to Mark Clemente, the Open Access Publisher Agreements Manager at California Digital Library (CDL), about the University of California's Transformative Agreements with scholarly journal publishers.
The UCSB Library...
Thu, Sep 19, 9:09 am |
Memorandum of understanding signed for four-year agreement that will empower more UC authors to share their scholarship openly with the world
The University of California (UC) and Taylor & Francis today announced a memorandum of understanding for a four-year read and publish agreement that will...
The new Arts Library is opening in late fall quarter.
Art & Architecture and Music print collections are inaccessible for public browsing until the opening of the Arts Library but can be requested via UC Library Search.
Music CDs (XCD) and LPs (XL2) now circulate outside of the Library with a...
The interface of the database list on the Library homepage will change on Tuesday, September 17. Library website users who click on the “Articles & Databases” button or the “Articles & Databases” link in the main navigation menu will be redirected to the new interface, https://guides....
Mon, Aug 5, 4:03 pm | Library Employees
UC Santa Barbara has appointed Alan Grosenheider Interim University Librarian, effective August 1, 2024. Kristin Antelman retired as University Librarian at the end of July after serving in the role for six years. The University has begun a national search for the next University Librarian and...
The UC Santa Barbara Library is excited to announce the recent acquisition of the Paul Georg von Möllendorff Chinese Cylinders, a collection of wax cylinders widely considered to be the first audio recordings from China. The cylinders, recorded in the late 1800s by linguist Möllendorff, contain...
