Hitchcock Scorer Bernard Herrmann ALIVE in Special Collections

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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.

Black Studies Collection

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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.

United Nations ODS

The Official Document System of the UN, including resolutions, decisions, and administrative documents.

UCSB Library Catalog

The database of our library’s collections including books, journals, music, videos, maps, archives, and other materials.

Social Sciences Databases (ProQuest)

Searches multiple social sciences databases simultaneously.  Ideal for multidisciplinary research.

Rand California

A collection of think-tank reports on California and U.S. public policy with an emphasis on statistics.

PsycInfo

Covers the international literature in psychology, the behavioral sciences, and related disciplines.  Useful for many areas of social science research.

Polling the Nations

Indexes public opinion polls and contains the full text of questions and responses from surveys conducted in the U.S. and 80 other countries.

Oxford English Dictionary

The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language.  Includes the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words.

Oxford Art Online

An excellent reference source for all areas of art, architecture, humanities and social sciences.  Thoroughly illustrated.