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...
UCSB Library is creating a new Arts Library by bringing together the Music and Art & Architecture Collections into a modernized space on the main Library’s 1st floor Mountain Side.
The Music Library will permanently close to the public starting Monday, August 5.
Music collection materials...
UCSB Library is creating a new Arts Library by bringing together the Music and Art & Architecture Collections into a modernized space on the Library’s 1st floor Mountain Side where the Art & Architecture Collection is currently housed. As part of the project, the Music Library collection...
Project Will Combine Music and Art & Architecture Collections in Modernized Space in Main Library
UC Santa Barbara Library is planning a new Arts Library by bringing together the Music and Art & Architecture Collections into a modernized space in the main Library building. The project will...
In Fall 2022, the archives of the music and comedy duo Smothers Brothers were donated to the UC Santa Barbara Library’s Performing Arts Collection on behalf of the two brothers, Thomas and Richard Smothers.
The Smothers Brothers are widely recognized as a pioneering and highly influential comedy...
On January 1, 2022, an estimated 400,000 pre-1923 sound recordings formerly restricted through copyright entered the public domain, thanks to the passing of the Music Modernization Act (MMA).
The UC Santa Barbara Library had already digitally preserved over 60,000 of these recordings from its...
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...
The Music Library now offers limited on-site research appointments for UCSB faculty and graduate students.
We will provide browsing access to on-site Music print collections (books, scores, and journals).
Individual private audio and video facilities are available for access to recordings if...
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...
Wed, Feb 20, 4:16 pm | Music
In an unprecedented collaboration, the UC Santa Barbara Library and UCSB Opera Theatre will present the American premiere of a work by a proven master of music and theater.
Both performances of the operetta — which was selected from the library’s Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive — will be...