Wed, Aug 26, 7:51 am | Data Curation & Management, Digital Scholarship, Research Services, Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Sciences & Engineering, Services, Social Sciences, Technology
Advancing "open science" — the worldwide movement to increase the transparency and accessibility of publicly funded research — is one of UC Santa Barbara Library’s four strategic priorities. Yet, fostering reproducibility, data reuse and interdisciplinary collaboration can be challenging across a...
Tue, Aug 25, 10:57 am | Collections, Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Sciences & Engineering, Services, Student Success
Carmen Galaz García, an assistant teaching professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, completed her undergraduate degree in mathematics in Mexico, where specialized textbooks were prohibitively expensive. She recalls how important it was that professors...
Mon, Jul 27, 7:51 am | UCSB Reads
The UCSB Library is pleased to announce its shortlist of titles under consideration for UCSB Reads 2027, the 21st edition of the award-winning campus- and community-wide common book program. The five nonfiction titles and one fiction title explore diverse cultural, social, and scientific subjects...
Thu, Jul 23, 10:46 am | Digital Scholarship, Faculty, Geospatial Collection, Library Employees, Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Sciences & Engineering, Special Research Collections, Technology
Professor Ian Walker relies on a century of coastal history to better understand the future of California’s environment. To study vegetation loss on the Oceano Dunes in San Luis Obispo County and model subsequent dust pollution, the UC Santa Barbara geographer depends on an extraordinary historical...
Thu, Jul 23, 8:21 am | Data Curation & Management, Digital Scholarship, Humanities, Research Services, Services, Social Sciences, Student Success, Undergraduate Students
When Samuel Liu noticed workplace friction among fellow Resident Assistants (RAs) at UC Santa Barbara’s San Nicolas Residence Hall, he decided to investigate. As a senior majoring in Communication and Sociology, Liu turned his personal and professional observations into an award-winning independent...
Thu, Jul 23, 8:12 am | Area Studies, Collections, Digital Scholarship, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Graduate Students, Humanities, Research Services, Social Sciences, Student Success, Undergraduate Students
Generations of researchers who rely on primary sources faced a frustrating hurdle. Conducting original historical research typically required traveling to distant archives, navigating cost-prohibitive interlibrary loans or adjusting a project’s scope based on access to sources. For students engaged...
A new $484,455 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will support the next phase of the University of California Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network as they work to make OSPOs a permanent part of the UC system. With this new funding, the UC Santa Barbara Library’s Open Source Program (OSP...
Wed, Jul 8, 6:37 am | Library Employees, UCSB Reads
UC Santa Barbara Library has been named a recipient of the 2026 John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award by the American Library Association (ALA). Widely regarded as one of the most prestigious honors bestowed in the library profession, the award recognizes outstanding public relations...
Mon, Jun 22, 8:47 am | Library Employees
For the second year in a row, UCSB Library received major library association awards in recognition of its outstanding communications:
ARL 2026 ARLIES Award
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) awarded a 2026 ARLIES Award, People's Choice category, to UCSB Library for its "Research...
Thu, May 28, 9:29 am | Gifts & Donors, UCSB Reads
UCSB Reads 2026, the 20th anniversary of UC Santa Barbara's award-winning common book program, culminated on May 7 with a campus appearance by Michelle Zauner. The bestselling author and Grammy-nominated musician (of indie pop band Japanese Breakfast) took the stage at a sold-out Campbell Hall to...
