Special Collections: News & Events

The Special Collections News Archive contains summaries of press releases about prominent news developments. The heading of each item links to the full text of that story.

Goldshlak (Leon A.) Gilbert & Sullivan Collection

This exhibit highlighted the collection of books, sound recordings, videotapes, scores and graphic materials related to the careers and operas of William S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan.
Collections, Exhibits, Humanities, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
July 1, 2003

The Future in the Past: Works of Science Fiction and Fantasy From the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

This exhibit featured the works of several dozen authors who wrote speculative fiction or fantasy, a genre that later came to be known as Science Fiction.
Exhibits, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
January 27, 2003

60th Annual Western Books Exhibition, Rounce & Coffin Club of Los Angeles

This exhibit featured small press books selected by the Rounce and Coffin Club of Los Angeles.
Exhibits, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
November 18, 2002

The UCSB Libraries: Celebrating 50 Years of Growth and Service

This was an online exhibit on the history of the UCSB Library, to which Special Collections contributed.
Exhibits, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
September 1, 2002

The History of Asian America On Stage: Highlights from the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives

This display featured selected historical documents, photographs, scripts and graphic art work drawn from several Asian American performing arts collections.
Collections, Exhibits, Humanities, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
July 1, 2002

Sound Recordings from the Performing Arts Collections

This exhibit highlighted various audio recordings from the Performing Arts Collections in Special Collections.
Collections, Exhibits, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
May 1, 2002

The Indefatigable Willem Blaeu (1571-1638) Seventeenth Century Mapmaker

Exhibit highlighted Special Collections' holdings of Blaeu maps.
Collections, Exhibits, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
March 4, 2002

Lincoln Lives! An Exhibit of The Wyles Collection

The collection of books and materials that a local resident named William Wyles left to the University of California Santa Barbara in the 1940s formed the basis on which the Department of Special Collections was built.
Collections, Exhibits, Humanities, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
January 7, 2002

59th Annual Western Books Exhibition, Rounce & Coffin Club of Los Angeles

This exhibit featured small press books selected by the Rounce and Coffin Club of Los Angeles.
Exhibits, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
November 20, 2001

Lotte Lehmann: Portraits and Portrayals

This exhibit featured photographs and other materials from the Performing Arts Department's collections on opera singer Lotte Lehmann.
Collections, Exhibits, Humanities, Special Collections, Special Collections Exhibits
October 8, 2001