The Department of Special Collections collects, maintains and makes accessible rare, valuable and unique materials which support UCSB students, faculty and research programs, as well as the local national and international scholarly community. Special Collections acquires materials by gift, transfer and purchase, in accordance with general library procedures. The department's holdings are non-circulating but are available for research in the reading room during posted hours.

Announcements
Kenneth Karmiole

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.

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