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, and longtime UCSB donor Sara Miller McCune. The gift was made in collaboration with McCune’s social science publishing company, Sage Publishing.
The completion of the Sara Miller McCune Arts Library project represents the final chapter in the Library’s multi-year effort to unite all collections and services under one roof in the center of campus. We are deeply grateful for Sara’s investment in the UCSB Library. With her support, we are now able to better serve our faculty, students, and the scholarly community with a beautiful new space befitting an R1 research institution.
With the opening of the Sara Miller McCune Arts Library, the Art & Architecture and Music print collections will become accessible again for public browsing. The requesting and paging of materials from these collections will end effective Sunday, December 1.
The Sara Miller McCune Arts Library includes fixed and flexible study tables with more than 100 seats, the Jackie Laskoff Exhibition Alcove, lockers, and high-density compact shelving for the Art & Architecture and Music print collections. It also features several spaces with state-of-the-art technology:
- Multimedia Studio (Room 1402): provides access to high-quality equipment for podcast/interview and video recording and for group listening (reservable by UCSB faculty, students and staff)
- Two Listening Rooms (Rooms 1404 and 1406): provide access to analog and digital equipment for listening to LP and CD collections (reservable by UCSB faculty, students and staff)
- The creation of the Margaret Becker Morez and W. Gordon Morez Listening Room (Room 1404) was made possible by a generous gift from UCSB Foundation Trustee and former Library student assistant Rafael Costas ’86 in honor of his Library supervisor Margaret Morez.
- Media Lab (Room 1408): provides access to four Mac workstations equipped with hardware and software for video and audio post-production (reservable by UCSB faculty, students and staff)
- A Seminar Room (Room 1411) with an upright piano, surround sound speakers, digital display and CD and LP players (reservable by UCSB instructors)
- A Listening/Viewing Station with DVD, Blu-ray, VHS, CD, LP and cassette players, headphones and a monitor (available to all Library users)
- Scanning capabilities (available to all Library users)
The Multimedia Studio, Listening Rooms, and Media Lab will open to UCSB affiliates at the beginning of winter quarter on Monday, January 6. The online reservation system for these spaces will become available on this date at https://libcal.library.ucsb.edu/. The Seminar Room will also open on January 6 and can be reserved by UCSB instructors at www.library.ucsb.edu/instruction/ucsb-faculty-and-instructor-resources.
For more information about the Sara Miller McCune Arts Library Project, please visit www.library.ucsb.edu/arts-library-project.
