Mon, May 14, 10:52 am | Special Research Collections
Shirley Graves Kennedy was a passionate activist, a dedicated educator and a devoted wife and mother. A product of the civil rights movement, the former lecturer in the UC Santa Barbara Department of Black Studies turned her considerable energy toward bringing people together on- and off-campus to...
Mon, May 14, 10:49 am | DREAM Lab, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
In a room at the UC Santa Barbara Library, Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy and her students prepare for revolution. They wield no weapons, only words. They seek not to overthrow a government, but to disrupt the multibillion-dollar academic publishing industry.
Joy leads the Arnhold Punctum Publishing Lab...
The UCSB Library Scholarly Communication Program is pleased to present Nubian studies scholar, punctum books co-director, and philologist Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei.
Vincent will discuss how community-focused, scholar-led open access publishing can help launch fields of inquiry and study that...
Fri, Feb 23, 11:32 am | Gifts & Donors, Special Research Collections
As a history major at UCSB in the 1960s, Kenneth Karmiole liked to hang out in used bookstores.
He often found scholarly books from the 19th century that sold for $1, and wondered why they weren’t worth more. To learn about the academic book business, he sought out UCSB Library’s head of...
Wed, Feb 21, 11:29 am | Collections
In consultation with UCSB’s Academic Senate Committee on Library, Information, & Instructional Resources, the UCSB Library has begun phasing out the main Annex, which contains primarily back runs of periodicals. By relying on the UC Regional Library Facilities (RLF) for access to these...
Tue, Feb 6, 11:23 am |
Henry T. Yang, Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, announced the appointment of Kristin Antelman as the next University Librarian, effective April 1, 2018. View full text of the announcement below. PDF Available.
Wed, Jan 24, 12:46 pm | Data Curation & Management, Digital Scholarship
UCSB Library, in partnership with the Earth Research Institute (ERI), announces the launch of a joint pilot project, The Data Collective, to develop an on-campus repository for faculty research data.
UCSB Library is looking for UCSB faculty who would like to participate in The Data Collective....
Mon, Jan 22, 1:05 pm | Special Research Collections
UC Santa Barbara Library is pleased to announce that the Pacific Pride Foundation has agreed to donate their historical archives to UCSB Library.
The donation by the Pacific Pride Foundation will serve as the cornerstone of the Library’s Special Research Collections LGBTQ+ archive. Since its...
Tue, Jan 2, 12:16 pm | Services
Finals hours are in effect at the UCSB Library through Thursday, January 11. MLK holiday weekend hours will be in effect Friday, January 12 through Monday, January 15. Normal operating hours resume Tuesday, January 16 at 8AM.
Finals Hours:
Sat (1/6), 10AM – 9PM (Regular) 9PM – 10AM (Late Night...
Mon, Dec 18, 11:11 am |
The main Library will close for winter break at 5pm on Saturday, December 23, 2017 and will re-open at 8am on Tuesday, January 2, 2018. The Music Library will close for winter break at 5pm on Friday, December 22, 2017 and will re-open at 9am on Tuesday, January 2, 2018.
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