In Fall 2022, the archives of the music and comedy duo Smothers Brothers were donated to the UC Santa Barbara Library’s Performing Arts Collection on behalf of the two brothers, Thomas and Richard Smothers.
The Smothers Brothers are widely recognized as a pioneering and highly influential comedy...
Mon, Nov 21, 2:54 pm |
The UCSB Library has embarked upon a strategic planning process to provide us with a roadmap to focus our efforts and resources for the next three years. The Library is working with an experienced library leader and consultant, Mary Ann Mavrinac, Vice Provost and Dean Emeritus, University of...
Mon, Nov 21, 11:00 am | Special Research Collections, Gifts & Donors
Over the last 25 years, Buellton residents Kim and Dean Pananides ‘67,’75 have built a complete collection of first editions of the renowned Trianon Press, a Paris-based publisher of fine art books, which they are donating to the UC Santa Barbara Library Department of Special Research Collections....
Thu, Oct 13, 10:38 am | Special Research Collections, Grants
UCSB Library is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of a Humanities For All Quick Grant award from California Humanities for the Santa Barbara Community Archiving Project.
The goal of the Santa Barbara Community Archiving Project is to preserve and celebrate the well-established Latinx...
On January 1, 2022, an estimated 400,000 pre-1923 sound recordings formerly restricted through copyright entered the public domain, thanks to the passing of the Music Modernization Act (MMA).
The UC Santa Barbara Library had already digitally preserved over 60,000 of these recordings from its...
Mon, Oct 3, 2:29 pm | UCSB Reads
The UC Santa Barbara Library and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor are pleased to announce the selection of the 2023 UCSB Reads book, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery.
Now in its 17th year, UCSB Reads brings the campus and Santa Barbara...
The Grammy Museum Foundation issued a $10,000 grant to the UC Santa Barbara Library to preserve, digitize, and make accessible a portion of the groundbreaking radio broadcasts of the CBS Symphony conducted by Bernard Herrmann in the 1930s and 1940s.
While Herrmann is known today as one of the...
Mon, Sep 12, 3:12 pm | Art & Architecture
As of September 12, 2022, the Services Desk located inside the Art & Architecture Collection on the First Floor Mountain Side of the UCSB Library, is closed. A FAQ is provided below with information on how to access collections and services that were previously offered from the desk.
How can I...
Mon, Aug 29, 5:53 pm | Special Research Collections, Collections
UCSB Library is pleased to announce that some of our digitized special collections are now available on the JSTOR platform as part of JSTOR’s Open Community Collections initiative. Over 22,000 items from UCSB Library can be freely browsed and searched at https://www.jstor.org/site/ucsb. These...
Fri, Aug 26, 4:51 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Beginning September 1, 2022, UC corresponding authors publishing in Elsevier’s prestigious Cell Press and The Lancet journals will be able to publish their articles as open access with financial support from the UC libraries. Cell Press publishes 50 scientific journals in the life, physical, earth...
