Kenneth Karmiole, Class of ’68,
is creating an endowed fund to benefit Special Collections
in the UC Santa Barbara Libraries with a pledge of $100,000.
Earnings from the endowment will purchase rare books and manuscripts
to enhance the university’s research holdings.
Diana and Simon Raab
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.
New
Digital Collection with 5,000 Cylinder Recordings Online
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.
The site also has "streaming
radio" programs on various topics and a "featured cylinder"
section, showcasing some of the most interesting items in the collection.
Center for
the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive
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.
John
S. Kiewit Photography Collection
The UCSB Libraries 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 Libraries 2004 holiday card.
To view images from the collection, please
click on the following: John
S. Kiewit Photography Collection
Victor
Discography Project Moves to UCSB
Celebrating
50 Years of the UCSB Libraries!
A new multimedia Flash program that can be viewed in
your web browser uses images from the University Archives to describe
the history of the libraries on the UCSB campus.