News Archive
2008
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Darrell Baker and Tina Arth Donation
September 2008
Collector and author Darrel Baker and his wife Tina Arth gave the library a generous donation to acquire new cylinders for the library's Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. The money will be used to purchase recordings that the library would otherwise not be able to acquire. Mr. Baker has had a long interest in early sound recordings, significantly recordings by Scottish entertainer Harry Lauder. With Larry F. Kiner he is the author of The Sir Harry Lauder discography (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990) and the Encyclopedia of Egyptian Pharaohs: predynastic through twentieth dynasty (3200 B.C.-1085 B.C.) (London: Stacey International, 2008). This is Baker's second major gift to the library. He also donated his collection of Harry Lauder cylinders and discs to the UCSB Libraries in 2006. The Lauder cylinders have since been digitized by the library and can be listened to online at the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
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Neil O’Brien Papers
August 2008
This summer, the library was pleased to receive the papers of early 20th century American blackface entertainer Neil O'Brien, leader of "Neil O'Brien's Great American Minstrels," including scripts, music, set designs, photographs, posters, programs, sheet music, and financial documents.
Collection is currently being inventoried and processed.
Bruce Bastin/Interstate Music Collection
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May 2008
This May, UCSB Libraries acquired a portion of folklorist Bruce Bastin's record collection, consisting of 10,000 78rpm ethnic and folk recordings from Latin America and Europe. The collection also includes recordings in popular traditions, such as Argentine tangos. Bruce Bastin started Interstate Music in the 1970s to reissue important folk, jazz, country, blues, and ethnic recordings on LP. Over the years, he issued some 850 compilations on LP and CD, featuring music from The Americas and the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Currently, the recordings are being cataloged.
2007
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Kenneth Karmiole Endowment
Kenneth Karmiole, Class of ’68,
is creating an endowed fund to benefit Special Collections
in the UC Santa Barbara Libraries with a pledge of $100,000.
Earnings from the endowment will purchase rare books and manuscripts
to enhance the university’s research holdings.
Diana and Simon Raab Endowment
Diana and Simon Raab of Santa Barbara are creating a generously-endowed fund to benefit Special Collections. Earnings from the endowment will support the purchase of journals, memoirs, travel items and other rare and important additions to the research collection.
2005
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New Digital Collection with 5,000 Cylinder Recordings Online
A new digital collection featuring the library's cylinder recordings from the mid 1890s to the mid 1920s is now online. The site is available at http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/. The project is the culmination of a two-year grant funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The site features downloadable mp3 audio files as well as streaming versions of 5,000 of the library's cylinder recordings. More cylinders are being added as they are cataloged and digitized. The site also has "streaming radio" programs on various topics and a "featured cylinder" section, showcasing some of the most interesting items in the collection.
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive
Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI. Dating back to the early 1960s, the topics covered in these tapes remain as critical today as they were then. Issues include peace and war, democracy, dissent, community action, ecology and the environment, elections and the electoral process, immigration, international relations, law and order, the media, race and ethnicity, and religion.
2004
John S. Kiewit Photography Collection
The UCSB Libraries Department of Special Collections is pleased to announce that it recently has received the John S. Kiewit Photography Collection (Mss 228) of several thousand slides, prints, negatives and related work, primarily containing images of the West, including Yosemite, ghost towns, and the Central Coast of California. John S. Kiewit (1948-2000) was the author of Gone to Sanctuary: From the Sins of Confusion (Capra Press, 1997). His image of the Channel Islands, featured in the book, was chosen for the UCSB Libraries 2004 holiday card.
2000
The Isla Vista Resources Project
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The Neal J. Linson Family generously provided funding for a project to organize, preserve, and publicize the extensive Isla Vista resources held by the UCSB Department of Special Collections and other areas of the UCSB Libraries. This project was particularly interested in documenting events and issues concerning the Isla Vista community in the 1960s and 1970s, including student activism, reaction to U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and the 1970 burning of the Bank of America building.
This was a one year project, running from August 1, 2000 to July 31, 2001. In that time an Isla Vista Resources web page was developed as part of the Special Collections website. The page contains more detailed information about our resources and includes select images from the collections. We also have provide links to additional relevant resources at other institutions and sites.
We are very interested in expanding our Isla Vista collections and hope that anybody with potentially relevant materials will consider donating them to the UCSB Libraries. If you have questions about donations, or the project, please contact:
David C. Tambo, Head of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
Phone: (805) 893-3420
FAX: (805) 893-5749
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