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Library Highlights

UCSB Digital Collections

Learn more about the library's digital collections which feature unique and rare collections and include historic photographs, audio recordings, artistic posters and more!

Library Addition and Renovation

A new addition and renovation of the 2-story section of Davidson Library will allow us to upgrade and expand study spaces and services. For more information please visit our construction website.

Colección Tloque Nahuaque

Colleción is a unique collection devoted to Chicano/a and Latino/a culture. Colleción serves as a major resource for information on the cultural heritage and history of Chicano/as and Mexicans in the United States.

Hitchcock Scorer Bernard Herrmann ALIVE in Special Collections

Celebrate this year’s 50th Anniversary of Hitchcock’s Psycho with a visit to the archives of score composer Bernard Herrmann. The collection includes most of this legendary composer’s film scores (Vertigo, North by Northwest, Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver) as well as correspondence, financial records, photographs, sound recordings, and published scores.

Curriculum Lab

The Curriculum Lab is a resource center of instructional materials for use in K-12 classrooms. While it is designed primarily to serve student teachers in the UCSB Teacher Education Program, the collection is available to everyone.

Artists’ Books

The Arts Library has a rich collection of approximately 1200 artists’ books. Using the basic structure of the ‘book’ as a starting point, these works, unique or issued in small editions, incorporate many unusual structures including accordion folds, scrolls, single sheets, flip books or boxed. Artists’ books can be altered, manipulated and can incorporate other objects.

Black Studies Collection

The library’s Black Studies Collection has a rich history dating back to student activism and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. It includes a variety of materials related to Africa and the African Diaspora in the United States and the Caribbean.

Media Collection

The media collection contains VHS and DVD videos covering everything from religious studies and dance to foreign films and science documentaries. The film section has films from all over the world in English and foreign languages.

Wax Cylinder Digitization

The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project provides free access to a digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. You can find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.

Government Information Center

The Government Information Center has publications from the United States, California, and other states, as well as Santa Barbara and international publications. Publications from Congress and its agencies are housed here, as well as those from the UN, World Bank, and World Health Organization.

Tibetan Studies Collection

The UCSB Library owns a unique collection of over 400 Tibetan pecha format books. Pecha books consist of 4" x14" pages stored in special boxes. They are religious texts of Buddhist canon and works by important lamas. 

Vinyl Records

The Arts Library has over 24,000 vinyl records from American folk to Zappa. You can listen to any album on the library's turntables and stereo speakers.

Electronic Journals

The UCSB Library provides access to over 30,000 journal titles online.  With a few clicks of a mouse, you can access the most current issues and back volumes of journals.

ImaginArte: Interpreting and Re-imaging Chicano Art

Follow this exciting new Interdisciplinary Humanities Project that draws on CEMA collections to stimulate new research, scholarship, exhibitions and publications. Providing streaming video in art, music and theatre, it’s a treasure trove of online access to the legacy of the Chicano Movement.

Isla Vista Collection

Isla Vista is the small community that borders the UCSB campus. I.V. has its own vibrant history that is chronicled in this collection. Highlights include documents and photographs related to the I.V. Riots and the burning of the Bank of America building.

Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

This project, housed in Davidson Library, is working to produce accurate texts of Thoreau's complete works including his publications, journal, correspondence, and other uncollected papers.

UCSB Reads 2012

UCSB Reads is a common reading experience that engages the campus and the broader Santa Barbara community in conversations about a key topic while reading the same book. The theme for UCSB Reads 2012 is Making an Impact.  What's Yours? The book chosen for discussion is Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, by Donovan Hohn.

Know Your Library

Use the UCSB Library Catalog to find books and other items.  Use Next-Gen Melvyl Catalog to find items in other UC Libraries.