The University of California has been awarded a grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support the development of a UC-wide network of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs). This award leverages the work of the Open Source Program Office at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and funds a collaboration of UC...
Tue, Apr 16, 11:51 am | Collections, Digital Scholarship, Gifts & Donors, Grants, Special Research Collections
UCSB Library has been awarded a $349,993 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the American Record Corporation (ARC) Access Initiative of the American Discography Project. The NEH has now awarded six grants totaling more than $2 million in support of UCSB’s Discography of...
UC Santa Barbara Library is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of a $50,000 grant from the UCSB Student Fee Advisory Committee (SFAC) for the new UCSB Makerspace.
The UCSB Makerspace is an interdisciplinary experiential learning environment that fosters problem-solving, innovation, and...
Thu, Oct 13, 10:38 am | Special Research Collections, Grants
UCSB Library is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of a Humanities For All Quick Grant award from California Humanities for the Santa Barbara Community Archiving Project.
The goal of the Santa Barbara Community Archiving Project is to preserve and celebrate the well-established Latinx...
The Grammy Museum Foundation issued a $10,000 grant to the UC Santa Barbara Library to preserve, digitize, and make accessible a portion of the groundbreaking radio broadcasts of the CBS Symphony conducted by Bernard Herrmann in the 1930s and 1940s.
While Herrmann is known today as one of the...
Tue, Mar 1, 1:42 pm | Special Research Collections, Grants
The Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation announced last week that UCSB Library won one of two of its Preservation Grants to preserve and make more accessible documents and materials related to the life and career of Astor Piazzolla, a popular Argentine composer of tango and Latin American music.
The...
Tue, Jan 25, 4:04 pm | Art & Architecture, Grants
The Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation issued a $10,000 grant to the UC Santa Barbara Library for the digitization of a portion of the Marcel Nicolle Collection, which consists of more than 1,000 rare 19th-century exhibition catalogs in Western European languages, mostly French.
The materials...
Thousands of historic sound recordings held by UCSB Library will soon be freely accessible online thanks to a prestigious $349,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“Tens of thousands of recordings that never made it to CDs or digital services line the shelves of public archives...
The UCSB Library has completed the renovation and expansion of the Adaptive Technology Center (ATC), a space for students with disabilities to access technology that makes it easier to keep up with their studies.
The space now has 11 work stations (it previously had six), a new electronic access...
Thu, Sep 8, 4:30 pm | Collections, Data Curation & Management, Digital Scholarship, Grants, Library Employees, Technology
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded UCSB Library a $100,000 National Leadership Grant for "Always Already Computational: Library Collections as Data." The funds will be used for a series of meetings to develop strategies around library collections that support...
