The new Arts Library is opening in late fall quarter.
Art & Architecture and Music print collections are inaccessible for public browsing until the opening of the Arts Library but can be requested via UC Library Search.
Music CDs (XCD) and LPs (XL2) now circulate outside of the Library with a 7-day loan and can also be requested via UC Library Search. Public listening stations are currently available on the 2nd floor, Ocean Side, near the Media and Curriculum Resources collections.
The Library is still accepting Course Reserves requests and material for fall quarter. The Course Reserves website allows instructors to place their own materials on reserve or request materials be placed on reserve, including physical books, e-books, digitized files (chapters, articles, etc.), and media materials. The Library no longer digitizes LPs and CDs from our collection for Course Reserves. Instructors can place LPs and CDs on physical Course Reserves or share streaming audio links with students.
The Arts Library will include fixed and flexible study tables with more than 100 seats, exhibition space, lockers, and high-density compact shelving for the Art & Architecture and Music print collections.
The Arts Library will also feature several spaces with state-of-the-art technology:
- A media lab with four workstations for video and audio post-production (reservable by UCSB faculty, students and staff)
- A production room with equipment for listening and for recording podcasts (reservable by UCSB faculty, students and staff)
- Two listening rooms with CD and LP players, headphones and speakers (reservable by UCSB faculty, students and staff)
- A seminar room with an upright piano, surround sound speakers, digital display and CD and LP players (reservable by UCSB instructors)
- A public media viewing/listening station with DVD, Blu-ray, VHS, CD, LP and cassette players, headphones and a monitor
- Scanning capabilities
