Close-up photo of 2 pages in Saadi Shirazi’s "Book of Poetry"
The UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections recently welcomed a deeply personal and historically rich donation from Farrokh Ashti Ashtiani to the U.S. and International History, Politics, Civilization and Cultures Collection. The donation, Ashtiani’s first to UCSB Library, consists of a hand-...
Joseph Polchinski
The University of California, Santa Barbara Library recently finalized the processing and digitization of the faculty papers of renowned theoretical physicist and string theorist Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018). The papers offer scholars and enthusiasts unprecedented access to the works of one of the...
Library Award for Undergraduate Research
UCSB Library is pleased to announce the recipients of the seventh annual Library Award for Undergraduate Research (LAUR). The six awardees demonstrated deep engagement with the Library’s collections, resources, and services while producing a scholarly or creative work. First-place winners will...
Enrico Caruso Jr. as Enrico Baroni in the film La Buenaventura (1934).
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library's Performing Arts Collection has recently been enriched by a significant donation from Andrew Farkas, a distinguished librarian, opera scholar, and biographer. With his donation, Farkas created The Enrico Caruso Jr. Collection, which...
NBC studio photograph of Rudy Valleé.
The UC Santa Barbara Library is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a generous grant by The Ahmanson Foundation to support the preservation and accessibility of the American Radio Archives (ARA). The ARA is one of the nation’s largest collections documenting the history of radio...
Two patrons walking in Arts Library
Culminates multiyear effort to unite Library collections and services in central, state-of-the-art space This article was originally published in UCSB’s The Current.  The newly opened Sara Miller McCune Arts Library at UC Santa Barbara culminates a multiyear effort to unite library collections and...
Book cover of "Grapes of Wrath" first edition
UCSB Library has received a collection of first editions and audio recordings by California author and Nobel Prize laureate John Steinbeck (1902–1962). It includes 25 first editions of Steinbeck's major works, including the novels The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, and East of Eden ...
Monkey on a Stick movie poster
UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections (SRC) is often cited as a source in research papers, album releases, and monographs, but rarely does it appear in films. SRC recently made its film debut in a provocative documentary, Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas, directed by...
People sitting at tables and walking in the Sara Miller McCune Arts Library
The new Sara Miller McCune Arts Library will open to the public on Monday, December 2.  The creation of this thoughtfully designed and vibrant new space with state-of-the-art technology on the main Library’s 1st floor Mountain Side was made possible by the generosity of philanthropist, arts lover,...
Partial image of cover of Columbia Records Italy's 1926 General Catalog
Thanks to generous support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, UC Santa Barbara Library recently completed a project to digitize portions of its historical sound recording collection of recordings made by Columbia Records in Italy between 1923 and 1950. During this golden age of Italian...

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