Kenneth Karmiole, Class of ’68, is creating an endowed fund to benefit Special Collections in the UC Santa Barbara Library with a pledge of $100,000. Earnings from the endowment will purchase rare books and manuscripts to enhance the university’s research holdings.

April 13-June 30, 2007

This exhibit featured works from CEMA’s growing performing arts collections. This exhibit included original scripts, photographs, graphic art and collectibles autographed by the likes of Cesar Chavez, Luis Valdez, and Jane Fonda.

Accounts and Images from Travelers along the Way

An Exhibit in the UCSB Department of Special Collections

January 12 - March 30, 2007

Selections from UCSB’s Department of Special Collections related to the various lands and cultures as

Diana and Simon Raab of Santa Barbara are creating a generously-endowed fund to benefit Special Collections. Earnings from the endowment will support the purchase of journals, memoirs, travel items and other rare and important additions to the research collection.

July 11 - September 23, 2005

The exhibit in Special Collections displayed highlights from book and manuscript collections acquired during the past year.

A new digital collection featuring the library's cylinder recordings from the mid 1890s to the mid 1920s is now online. The site is available at http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/. The project is the culmination of a two-year grant funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The site features downloadable mp3 audio files as well as streaming versions of 5,000 of the library's cylinder recordings. More cylinders are being added as they are cataloged and digitized.

April 1 - June 30, 2005

This exhibit featured items from various areas in the Department of Special Collections that pertain to East Asia, primarily China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but including some other locations as well. In addition to some early monographs, mainly of a geographical nature, we exhibited a number of unique photograph albums and collections, historical documents and pamphlets and representative works of various aspects of the region’s history, politics, and culture.

January 10 - March 26, 2005

Carolee Campbell - an alumna of UCSB's College of Creative Studies - founded Ninja Press, a small press devoted largely to poetry. The press published its first work in 1984. This exhibit of artists books and related work by Carolee Campbell celebrated the 20th anniversary of the press.

Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI. Dating back to the early 1960s, the topics covered in these tapes remain as critical today as they were then. Issues include peace and war, democracy, dissent, community action, ecology and the environment, elections and the electoral process, immigration, international relations, law and order, the media, race and ethnicity, and religion.

The UCSB Library Department of Special Collections is pleased to announce that it recently has received the John S. Kiewit Photography Collection (Mss 228) of several thousand slides, prints, negatives and related work, primarily containing images of the West, including Yosemite, ghost towns, and the Central Coast of California. John S. Kiewit (1948-2000) was the author of Gone to Sanctuary: From the Sins of Confusion (Capra Press, 1997). His image of the Channel Islands, featured in the book, was chosen for the UCSB Library 2004 holiday card.