Thu, Dec 19, 10:41 am | Gifts & Donors, Special Research Collections
UCSB Library has received a collection of first editions and audio recordings by California author and Nobel Prize laureate John Steinbeck (1902–1962). It includes 25 first editions of Steinbeck's major works, including the novels The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, and East of Eden ...
Thu, Dec 12, 8:44 am | Library Employees, Technology
On October 28, the University of California recognized the UC Santa Barbara Library and the UC San Diego Library with the Yvonne Tevis UC Collaboration Silver Award at the UC Tech 2024 Conference in Davis. The prestigious award recognizes the productive partnership between the two libraries on...
Wed, Nov 20, 8:18 am | Digital Scholarship, Faculty, Graduate Students, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
New tool enables UC authors to look up journals covered by UC’s open access publishing agreements
The University of California (UC) has launched the Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT), a new service designed specifically for UC authors to easily determine if a journal qualifies under one of UC’...
Tue, Nov 19, 2:24 pm | Gifts & Donors, Special Research Collections
UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections (SRC) is often cited as a source in research papers, album releases, and monographs, but rarely does it appear in films. SRC recently made its film debut in a provocative documentary, Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas, directed by...
Fri, Nov 15, 9:06 am | Art & Architecture, Collections, Faculty, Gifts & Donors, Music, Services, Student Success, Technology
The new Sara Miller McCune Arts Library will open to the public on Monday, December 2.
The creation of this thoughtfully designed and vibrant new space with state-of-the-art technology on the main Library’s 1st floor Mountain Side was made possible by the generosity of philanthropist, arts lover,...
Thanks to generous support from the Gladys Krieble 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...
