Regular hours for Davidson Library will be extended during Finals Week.  After regular hours UCSB students, faculty, and staff can access the library by using their university IDs at the front entrance.  Good luck with your finals!

The Library is currently the location for a site-specific digital exhibition created by students Raymond Douglas and Chris Silva. Installed at the top of the circular stairs on the second floor of Davidson is a network device that enables Library visitors in the vicinity to view art on their computers and mobile devices.

The Spring 2013 issue of The Lens newsletter for faculty and scholars has just been released. You can pick up a copy at either Davidson or the Arts Library, or read it online at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/lens. In this latest issue of The Lens, you will find stories about our countdown to groundbreaking, enhancements to the online catalog, recent acquisitions in Special Collections and the Map and Imagery Lab, and much more.

Don't forget -- fines for Course Reserves material are doubled to $4 per hour for Dead Week and Finals Week. This is to ensure that all students get equal access to Course Reserves Material.

Please remember to turn in your books on time and avoid the fines!

Have you ever wanted to throw paint on a wall? Or grab a brush and let your creative expression flow with an actual building as your canvas?

The Library is discarding approximately 3 million old catalog cards as we clean out the building in preparation for construction. These were how we kept track of books until 12-14 years ago, when we moved the catalog online. Contact rmetzger [at] library [dot] ucsb [dot] edu if you want some of these for art, research, or other projects.

Book search results in the UCSB Library Catalog (http://pegasus.library.ucsb.edu/) are now being delivered along with cover images, tables of contents, reviews from The New York Times, and other enriched descriptive data. By having access to detailed information within the online catalog, Library users can make more informed decisions before visiti

Library hours will vary during Memorial Day weekend (Fri. May 24 - Mon. May 27).  Below are the hours for Davidson Library and the Arts Library.  Hours for different service locations within Davidson Library will vary during this period.  For details, check the Hours Pages.

Davidson Library

Friday, May 24:

• Building Hours:  8 am - 9 pm
• Overnight Study: 9 pm - midnight

Saturday, May 25: 

When the Library Addition and Renovation Project begins in mid-June, we will be emptying the existing two-story building. SEL (Sciences-Engineering Library) materials are currently located in this section. While the majority of the SEL collection will be boxed and sent to a temporary offsite storage facility, where it will remain inaccessible during the project, a high-use subset will stay in the building. Patrons who rely upon SEL books regularly for research or teaching are encouraged to check books out by June 14 before they are relocated.