Davidson Library
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The University of California, Santa Barbara
Library is the university library
system of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California
. The Library include four facilities: Two libraries (the Davidson library and the Arts Library) and two annexes (Annex I and Annex II). The library has some three million print volumes
, 30,000 electronic journal
s, 34,450 e-book
s, 900,055 digitized items, five million cartographic
items (including some 467,000 maps and 3.2 million satellite
and aerial images), more than 3.7 million pieces of microform
, 167,500 sound recordings, and 4,100 manuscripts. The Library states that it holds 3.2 miles (5.1 km) of manuscript and archival collections. According to data collected by the American Library Association
, as of July 2010 the UC Santa Barbara Library holds the 99th largest library collection in America, reporting 2,948,999 volumes. The current University Librarian is Denise Stephens.
The library serves UC Santa Barbara's students, faculty, and staff. The Library is also open to the public, but to borrow materials, non-University affiliated individuals must purchase a UCSB Library Card for $100 for one year. However, members of UCSB affiliates may join for a reduced fee, and students and faculty at other University of California
campuses, public school teachers, and faculty from reciprocating libraries may also obtain borrowing privileges with no charge, subject to verification. Members of the UC Alumni Association may obtain a courtesy library card, which provides borrowing access, but not access to licensed databases or interlibrary loan
, or the ability to check-out journals.
The Davidson Library has eight floors, with the Pacific View Room on the eighth floor offering a view of the Pacific Ocean
.
of the two-story section of Davidson Library; and fire alarm and fire suppression upgrades throughout the whole Davidson Library. The library will temporarily close the 70000 square feet (6,503.2 m²) in the two-story section of Davidson Library over the construction period. The new facility will include an increase in study space by 20 percent, an expanded 24-hour study room, a new Art Library, a new Special Collections exhibit, a Multimedia Lab, additional computers, power outlets, and wireless Internet, and dedicated spaces for group work and quiet reading. The project aims to be certified LEED Silver
. The $67 million project comes during a time of budget crisis for the University of California system, but it is not funded through student fees or tuition
dollars; rather, the project is being funded by a State of California
bond
sale.
, the Skofield Printers' Collection, and the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
.
The East Asian Library was created in 1967 and is housed in the fifth floor of the Davidson Library. The East Asian Library includes around 163,700 volumes of Chinese
, Japanese
, and Korean-language
materials. The collection has been completely online since July 2005. The bulk of the collection is Chinese (60 percent) and Japanese (39 percent); the Library began to acquire Korean works in 1992 when the university began its Korean program, and now has a few hundred titles in Korean.
The Special Collections includes many smaller units, including:
(CEMA) is a permanent program of UCSB and a division of the Department of Special Collections. Its collections on ethnic studies
"document the lives and activities of African American
s, Asian/Pacific Americans, Chicano
s/Latinos
, and Native Americans
in California. The collections represent the cultural, artistic, ethnic, and racial diversity that characterizes the state's population."
Established in 1988, the archives include the papers of many organizations and individuals. Holdings in the African American Collections are papers from Grover Cleveland Barnes, the Bay Area Black Panther Party
, William Downey, Charles C. Irby, Anita J. Mackey, Horace J. McMillan, Kincaid Rolle, Tuskegee Airman Lowell Steward, and Samuel L. Williams
. Holdings in the Asian/Pacific American Collections include the archives of the Asian American Theater Company
, Kearny Street Workshop
, Chinese American Democratic Club, Chinese American Political Association, and Chinese American Voters Education Committee, and the papers of Iris Chang
, Frank Chin
, Bob Hsiang, Nancy Hom, Michio Ito
, Genny Lim
, Ester Soriano-Hewitt, Gayle Tanaka, Sam Tagatac, Elizabeth Wong
, Flo Wong, and Nellie Wong
.
Holdings from the Chicano/Latino Collections include the papers of Oscar Zeta Acosta
, Norma Alarcón
, Juana Alicia, Carlos Almaraz
and Los Four
, Alurista
, Francisco Camplís, Reynaldo J. Carreon, Sean Carrillo, Ana Castillo
, Centro Cultural de la Raza, Federico and Bertha Claveria, the Comisíon Femeníl Mexicana Nacional, the Confederation of la Raza Organizations Collection, Lucha Corpi, Bert Corona
, Richard (Ricardo) Cruz
and Catolicos por la Raza
, Eddie Davis (West Coast Eastside Sound Archives), Richard Duardo, Maria Duke Dos Santos, Ricardo Favela, Juan R. Fuentes, Adelina García
, Ben Garza, Shifra Goldman, Maya Gonzalez, Hector Gonzalez
, Dan Guerrero
, Lalo Guerrero
, Mark Guerrero, Paul Holguin, Leo Limon, Yolanda Lopez
, Ralph Maradiaga, MEChA
, Miguel Mendez
, Marcy Miranda, José Montoya
, the National Network of Hispanic Women, Victor Ochoa, Carlos Ornelas, Sheila Ortiz-Taylor, Ernesto Palomino, James Prigoff, Eloy Rodriguez
, Patricia Rodríguez, Charles Rojo, Gil Sanchez, Self Help Graphics & Art
, Simon Silva, Alvaro Suman, El Teatro Campesino, Rini Templeton
, Mario Torero, Salvador Roberto Torres, Don Tosti
(Edmundo Martinez Tostado), Emigdio Vasquez
, Luís Valdez
, Linda Vallejo
, Esteban Villa
, and María Helena Viramontes.
s; 95,000 auction and exhibition catalogs; and some 60,000 sound recordings and music scores
. The music library is housed on the second floor of the Arts Library and includes some 25,000 LP record
s. The music collection includes a non-circulating Goethe Collection includes almost 200 items relating to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
, including several first and early editions
of Goethe's writings and musical settings of his poetry by Franz Schubert
, Ludwig van Beethoven
, Walther Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Friedrich Reichardt
, and Carl Friedrich Zelter
.
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
Library is the university library
University Library
University Library refers to academic libraries at universities, such as:*Basel University Library*Cambridge University Library*Cornell University Library*De La Salle University Library*Durham University Library*University of the East Library...
system of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
. The Library include four facilities: Two libraries (the Davidson library and the Arts Library) and two annexes (Annex I and Annex II). The library has some three million print volumes
Volume (publishing)
A volume is a single book that is part of a collection; also a bibliographic identifier for a sequence of periodicals....
, 30,000 electronic journal
Electronic journal
Electronic journals, also known as ejournals, e-journals, and electronic serials, are scholarly journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. In practice, this means that they are usually published on the Web...
s, 34,450 e-book
E-book
An electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital...
s, 900,055 digitized items, five million cartographic
Cartography
Cartography is the study and practice of making maps. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.The fundamental problems of traditional cartography are to:*Set the map's...
items (including some 467,000 maps and 3.2 million satellite
Satellite imagery
Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made by means of artificial satellites.- History :The first images from space were taken on sub-orbital flights. The U.S-launched V-2 flight on October 24, 1946 took one image every 1.5 seconds...
and aerial images), more than 3.7 million pieces of microform
Microform
Microforms are any forms, either films or paper, containing microreproductions of documents for transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about one twenty-fifth of the original document size...
, 167,500 sound recordings, and 4,100 manuscripts. The Library states that it holds 3.2 miles (5.1 km) of manuscript and archival collections. According to data collected by the American Library Association
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....
, as of July 2010 the UC Santa Barbara Library holds the 99th largest library collection in America, reporting 2,948,999 volumes. The current University Librarian is Denise Stephens.
The library serves UC Santa Barbara's students, faculty, and staff. The Library is also open to the public, but to borrow materials, non-University affiliated individuals must purchase a UCSB Library Card for $100 for one year. However, members of UCSB affiliates may join for a reduced fee, and students and faculty at other University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
campuses, public school teachers, and faculty from reciprocating libraries may also obtain borrowing privileges with no charge, subject to verification. Members of the UC Alumni Association may obtain a courtesy library card, which provides borrowing access, but not access to licensed databases or interlibrary loan
Interlibrary loan
Interlibrary loan is a service whereby a user of one library can borrow books or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library...
, or the ability to check-out journals.
The Davidson Library has eight floors, with the Pacific View Room on the eighth floor offering a view of the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
.
Expansion
The Library is planning expansions and renovations, with construction scheduled to begin in January 2012 and be completed in summer 2014. The project will include three parts: A building addition on the north side of Davidson Library; a seismic retrofitSeismic retrofit
Seismic retrofitting is the modification of existing structures to make them more resistant to seismic activity, ground motion, or soil failure due to earthquakes. With better understanding of seismic demand on structures and with our recent experiences with large earthquakes near urban centers,...
of the two-story section of Davidson Library; and fire alarm and fire suppression upgrades throughout the whole Davidson Library. The library will temporarily close the 70000 square feet (6,503.2 m²) in the two-story section of Davidson Library over the construction period. The new facility will include an increase in study space by 20 percent, an expanded 24-hour study room, a new Art Library, a new Special Collections exhibit, a Multimedia Lab, additional computers, power outlets, and wireless Internet, and dedicated spaces for group work and quiet reading. The project aims to be certified LEED Silver
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods....
. The $67 million project comes during a time of budget crisis for the University of California system, but it is not funded through student fees or tuition
Tuition
Tuition payments, known primarily as tuition in American English and as tuition fees in British English, Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English and Indian English, refers to a fee charged for educational instruction during higher education.Tuition payments are charged by...
dollars; rather, the project is being funded by a State of California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
bond
Bond
Bond, bonds, bonded, and bonding may refer to:* Peace-bonding, something which makes a weapon unusable as a weapon- Fiduciary :* Bond , in finance, a type of debt security...
sale.
Davidson Library
The Donald C. Davidson Library is named in honor of Donald C. Davidson, who served as University Librarian from 1947 to 1977. It is the library's main branch, holding the general collection and several special collections: The Sciences and Engineering Library, the Map and Imagery Laboratory, the Curriculum Laboratory, the East Asian Library and the Ethnic and Gender Studies Library. The university's Department of Special Collections are also part of the Davidson Library. The Special Collections hold rare books and manuscripts and several collections, which include the Performing Arts Collection, the Wyles Collection on the American WestWestern United States
.The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West or simply "the West," traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Because the U.S. expanded westward after its founding, the meaning of the West has evolved over time...
, the Skofield Printers' Collection, and the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives is an archival institution that houses collections of primary source documents from the history of minority ethnic groups in California...
.
The East Asian Library was created in 1967 and is housed in the fifth floor of the Davidson Library. The East Asian Library includes around 163,700 volumes of Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
, Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
, and Korean-language
Korean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
materials. The collection has been completely online since July 2005. The bulk of the collection is Chinese (60 percent) and Japanese (39 percent); the Library began to acquire Korean works in 1992 when the university began its Korean program, and now has a few hundred titles in Korean.
The Special Collections includes many smaller units, including:
- The Humanistic Psychology Archives, founded in 1986, is housed in Special Collections. It includes an estimated 1000 feet (304.8 m) of material relating to the history of humanistic psychologyHumanistic psychologyHumanistic psychology is a psychological perspective which rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, drawing on the work of early pioneers like Carl Rogers and the philosophies of existentialism and phenomenology...
, including records on the Association for Humanistic Psychology, George I. Brown, James F.T. Bugental, Stanley Keleman, Abraham MaslowAbraham MaslowAbraham Harold Maslow was an American professor of psychology at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research and Columbia University who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs...
, Rollo MayRollo MayRollo May was an American existential psychologist. He authored the influential book Love and Will during 1969. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy. May was a close friend of the theologian Paul Tillich...
, Carl R. Rogers, Virginia SatirVirginia SatirVirginia Satir was an American author and psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy and her work with Systemic Constellations...
, Stewart B. Shapiro, Bob Tannenbaum, and John VasconcellosJohn VasconcellosJohn B. Vasconcellos Jr. is an American politician from California and member of the Democratic Party. He represented the Silicon Valley as a member of the California State Assembly for 30 years and a California State Senator for 8 years...
. The Archives includes several collections of the personal and professional papers of individuals, including George LeonardGeorge LeonardGeorge Leonard was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Norton, Massachusetts. Besides service on state court benches and in both houses of the state legislature, he represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.-External links:*...
, Thomas Yeomans, Alan WattsAlan WattsAlan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York...
, and Robert Reasoner. - The Stuart L. Bernath Memorial Collection includes almost 2,000 books and more than 80 manuscript collections dealing with American diplomatic history and international relationsInternational relationsInternational relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
, including the papers of James Stuart Beddie, Stuart L. Bernath, G. William Gahagan, and Charles Montgomery Hathaway. The collection's Wilson-McAdoo Collection focuses on Woodrow WilsonWoodrow WilsonThomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
and family, and in particular his daughter, Eleanor Wilson McAdooEleanor Wilson McAdooEleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo was an American author who wrote about her famous father, Woodrow Wilson. She usually went by the nickname Nellie.- Life :...
. - The Darwin / Evolution Collection within Special Collections includes, among other works, a first editionFirst editionThe bibliographical definition of an edition includes all copies of a book printed “from substantially the same setting of type,” including all minor typographical variants.- First edition :...
of Charles DarwinCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
' On the Origin of Species (1859). - The archives of the Center for the Study of Democratic InstitutionsCenter for the Study of Democratic InstitutionsThe Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California was an important think tank from 1959 to 1977, declining in influence thereafter. The Center held discussions in a variety of areas that it hoped would influence public deliberation...
, a Santa Barbara-based think tankThink tankA think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...
which existed form 1959 to 1987. - The Isla Vista Collections of material relating to Isla VistaIsla Vista, CaliforniaIsla Vista is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California in the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 23,096. The majority of residents are college students at nearby University of California, Santa Barbara or at Santa...
, with most materials from later 1960s and 1970s, including coverage of the topics such as the anti-Vietnam War protestsOpposition to the Vietnam WarThe movement against US involvment in the in Vietnam War began in the United States with demonstrations in 1964 and grew in strength in later years. The US became polarized between those who advocated continued involvement in Vietnam, and those who wanted peace. Peace movements consisted largely of...
, Isla Vista riots, and the environmental movementEnvironmental movementThe environmental movement, a term that includes the conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues....
. - Performing Arts Collection, including recordings, manuscripts, photographs, and other items involving the performing artsPerforming artsThe performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
. Highlights include the papers of Bernard HerrmannBernard HerrmannBernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...
, Lotte LehmannLotte LehmannCharlotte "Lotte" Lehmann was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart and Massenet. The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was considered her greatest...
, Judith AndersonJudith AndersonDame Judith Anderson, AC, DBE was an Australian-born American-based actress of stage, film and television. She won two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award and was also nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award.-Early life:...
, and Peter Racine FrickerPeter Racine FrickerPeter Racine Fricker was an English composer who lived in the United States for the last thirty years of his life....
. The collection also includes the Raymond Toole-Stott Circus Collection, which contains some 1,300 monographMonographA monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...
s on the circusCircusA circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
in Europe and America. The Lobero Theatre Papers, also in the Performing Arts Collection, hold the organizational records of the Lobero TheatreLobero TheatreThe Lobero Theatre, founded by José Lobero, is a historic building in Santa Barbara, California. It is at the corner of Anacapa and Canon Perdido Streets, less than a block away from the historic Presidio of Santa Barbara.-History:...
, the oldest theater in Southern CaliforniaSouthern CaliforniaSouthern California is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles and Greater San Diego. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego...
. - A collection of bibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
s dating as early as the mid-13th century, many of which are illuminated manuscriptIlluminated manuscriptAn illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders and miniature illustrations...
s. The earliest original items in the collection include copies of the Santa Barbara Bible (c. 1250), Biblia Latina (c. 1297), Biblia sacra latina (1350); A Noble FragmentGutenberg BibleThe Gutenberg Bible was the first major book printed with a movable type printing press, and marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book. Widely praised for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities, the book has an iconic status...
(a leaf of the Gutenberg BibleGutenberg BibleThe Gutenberg Bible was the first major book printed with a movable type printing press, and marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book. Widely praised for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities, the book has an iconic status...
, c. 1450-1455) and the Coverdale BibleCoverdale BibleThe Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale and published in 1535, was the first complete Modern English translation of the Bible , and the first complete printed translation into English . The later editions published in 1539 were the first complete Bibles printed in England...
(1535). The library also holds bible manuscripts as part of the Isaac FootIsaac Foot-Early life:Isaac Foot was born in Plymouth, the son of a carpenter and undertaker, and educated at Plymouth Public School and the Hoe Grammar School, which he left at the age of 14. He then worked at the Admiralty in London, but returned to Plymouth to train as a solicitor...
Collection.
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
California Ethnic and Multicultural ArchivesCalifornia Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives is an archival institution that houses collections of primary source documents from the history of minority ethnic groups in California...
(CEMA) is a permanent program of UCSB and a division of the Department of Special Collections. Its collections on ethnic studies
Ethnic studies
Ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary study of racialized peoples in the world in relation to ethnicity. It evolved in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional disciplines such as anthropology, history, English, ethnology, Asian studies, and orientalism...
"document the lives and activities of African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
s, Asian/Pacific Americans, Chicano
Chicano
The terms "Chicano" and "Chicana" are used in reference to U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. However, those terms have a wide range of meanings in various parts of the world. The term began to be widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, especially in the movement's...
s/Latinos
Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic or Latino Americans are Americans with origins in the Hispanic countries of Latin America or in Spain, and in general all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino.1990 Census of Population and Housing: A self-designated classification for people whose origins...
, and Native Americans
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
in California. The collections represent the cultural, artistic, ethnic, and racial diversity that characterizes the state's population."
Established in 1988, the archives include the papers of many organizations and individuals. Holdings in the African American Collections are papers from Grover Cleveland Barnes, the Bay Area Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party wasan African-American revolutionary leftist organization. It was active in the United States from 1966 until 1982....
, William Downey, Charles C. Irby, Anita J. Mackey, Horace J. McMillan, Kincaid Rolle, Tuskegee Airman Lowell Steward, and Samuel L. Williams
Samuel L. Williams
Samuel L. Williams was president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners and the first African-American president of the California State Bar ....
. Holdings in the Asian/Pacific American Collections include the archives of the Asian American Theater Company
Asian American Theater Company
Asian American Theater Company is a non-profit theatre performance company based in San Francisco.-Background:The Asian American Theater Company was established in 1973 by playwright Frank Chin to develop and present original works of theatre about Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander descent...
, Kearny Street Workshop
Kearny Street Workshop
Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco, California, is the oldest multidisciplinary arts nonprofit addressing Asian Pacific American issues.The organization's mission is to produce and present art that enriches and empowers Asian Pacific American communities....
, Chinese American Democratic Club, Chinese American Political Association, and Chinese American Voters Education Committee, and the papers of Iris Chang
Iris Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American historian and journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004...
, Frank Chin
Frank Chin
Frank Chin is an American author and playwright.- Life and career :Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California, but was raised to the age of six by a retired Vaudeville couple in Placerville, California. At six his mother brought him back to the San Francisco Bay Area to live in Oakland Chinatown...
, Bob Hsiang, Nancy Hom, Michio Ito
Michio Itō
Michio Itō was a Japanese dancer, and choreographer, an associate of William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Angna Enters, Isamu Noguchi, Louis Horst, Ted Shawn, Martha Graham, Vladimir Rosing, Pauline Koner, Lester Horton and others...
, Genny Lim
Genny Lim
Genny Lim is an American poet, playwright, and performer.-Life:She graduated from San Francisco State University, and from Columbia University in 1973.She teaches at the New College of California....
, Ester Soriano-Hewitt, Gayle Tanaka, Sam Tagatac, Elizabeth Wong
Elizabeth Wong
Elizabeth "Libby" Wong Chien Chi-lien, CBE, ISO, JP is a former civil servant and politician from Hong Kong, born in Shanghai, China. Wong holds New Zealand citizenship, and is currently residing in Sydney, Australia. She is now a popular fiction writer...
, Flo Wong, and Nellie Wong
Nellie Wong
Nellie Wong is a poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes.-Biography:Wong was born in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants. Her father had immigrated to Oakland in 1912....
.
Holdings from the Chicano/Latino Collections include the papers of Oscar Zeta Acosta
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Oscar Zeta Acosta was an American attorney, politician, minor novelist and Chicano Movement activist, perhaps best known for his friendship with the American author Hunter S. Thompson, who characterized him as his Samoan Attorney, Dr...
, Norma Alarcón
Norma Alarcón
Norma Alarcón is a Chicana author, professor, and publisher in the United States. She is the founder of Third Woman Press and a major figure in Chicana feminism.-Biography and Schooling:...
, Juana Alicia, Carlos Almaraz
Carlos Almaraz
Carlos Almaraz was a Mexican-American artist and an early proponent of the Chicano street arts movement.-Childhood and education:...
and Los Four
Los Four
Los Four was a Chicano artist collective during the 1970s and early 1980s in Los Angeles, California. The group was instrumental in bringing Chicano Art to the attention of the mainstream art world.-Brief history and significance:...
, Alurista
Alurista
Alurista is the nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia , a Chicano poet and activist.-Youth and education:...
, Francisco Camplís, Reynaldo J. Carreon, Sean Carrillo, Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo is a Mexican-American Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist.- Life and career :Castillo was born and raised in an inner city barrio of Chicago, Illinois. After completing undergraduate studies, she immediately began teaching college courses...
, Centro Cultural de la Raza, Federico and Bertha Claveria, the Comisíon Femeníl Mexicana Nacional, the Confederation of la Raza Organizations Collection, Lucha Corpi, Bert Corona
Bert Corona
Humberto Noé "Bert" Corona was an American labor and civil rights leader. Throughout his long career, he worked with nearly every major Mexican-American organization, founding or co-founding several. He organized workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and fought on the behalf of...
, Richard (Ricardo) Cruz
Ricardo Cruz
Ricardo Cruz , aka Richard V. Cruz, was a Los Angeles, California attorney who fought for many Chicano Movement causes...
and Catolicos por la Raza
Católicos por La Raza
Católicos por La Raza is a political association organized by Ricardo Cruz in the later 1960s in Los Angeles, California.-St. Basil's arrests:...
, Eddie Davis (West Coast Eastside Sound Archives), Richard Duardo, Maria Duke Dos Santos, Ricardo Favela, Juan R. Fuentes, Adelina García
Adelina Garcia
Adelina Garcia is a Mexican-American or Chicana singer. She remains one of the most famous American singers of the bolero.-Biography:...
, Ben Garza, Shifra Goldman, Maya Gonzalez, Hector Gonzalez
Héctor Gonzalez
Héctor González is a Venezuelan football midfielder who has played 53 times for the Venezuela national team. Gonzalez playing for Ermis Aradippou...
, Dan Guerrero
Dan Guerrero
Dan Guerrero is the athletic director for the University of California, Los Angeles . He is currently serving on the Selection Committee for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, and will take over as chairman in 2010.-Work history:Prior to his current position, Guerrero was athletic...
, Lalo Guerrero
Lalo Guerrero
Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero , was a Mexican-American guitarist, singer and farm labor activist best known for his strong influence on today's Latin musical artists.-Life Summary:...
, Mark Guerrero, Paul Holguin, Leo Limon, Yolanda Lopez
Yolanda Lopez
Yolanda M. López is an American painter, printmaker, educator, and film producer. Her work focuses on the experience of Mexican American women and often challenges ethnic stereotypes associated with them. According to López, "It is important for us to be visually literate; it is a survival skill....
, Ralph Maradiaga, MEChA
MEChA
M.E.Ch.A. is an organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. The acronym of the organization's name is the Spanish word mecha, which means "fuse"...
, Miguel Mendez
Miguel Méndez
Miguel Méndez is the pen name for Miguel Méndez Morales, a Mexican American author best known for his novel Peregrinos de Aztlán .- Early life :...
, Marcy Miranda, José Montoya
José Montoya
José Montoya is a poet and an artist from Sacramento, California. He is one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets. He has published many well-known poems in anthologies and magazines...
, the National Network of Hispanic Women, Victor Ochoa, Carlos Ornelas, Sheila Ortiz-Taylor, Ernesto Palomino, James Prigoff, Eloy Rodriguez
Eloy Rodriguez
Eloy Rodriguez is a Mexican-American biochemist. He is the James Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell University. He was born in Edinburg, Texas....
, Patricia Rodríguez, Charles Rojo, Gil Sanchez, Self Help Graphics & Art
Self Help Graphics & Art
Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. is a community arts center in East Los Angeles, California, USA. Formed during the cultural renaissance that accompanied the Chicano Movement, Self Help, as it is sometimes called, was one of the primary centers that incubated the nascent Chicano Art movement, and...
, Simon Silva, Alvaro Suman, El Teatro Campesino, Rini Templeton
Rini Templeton
Lucille Corinne Templeton , better known as "Rini" Templeton, was an American graphic artist, sculptor, and political activist. She was most active in Mexico and the Southwestern United States, although she also volunteered in Cuba and Nicaragua after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the...
, Mario Torero, Salvador Roberto Torres, Don Tosti
Don Tosti
DonTosti was an American musician and composer.Born in El Paso, Texas, Tosti forged a career spanning several decades and styles, from classical to jazz and rhythm and blues. He was best remembered for his Pachuco-style compositions like the hit "Pachuco Boogie"...
(Edmundo Martinez Tostado), Emigdio Vasquez
Emigdio Vasquez
Emigdio Vasquez is an American artist and muralist. His artistic works and photorealistic style are studied and appreciated by art critics nation-wide. He is often recognized for his mural The Legacy Of Cesar Chavez.- Early life :...
, Luís Valdez
Luis Valdez
Luis Valdez is an American playwright, writer and film director.He is regarded as the father of Chicano theater in the United States.-Education:...
, Linda Vallejo
Linda Vallejo
Linda Vallejo Linda Vallejo, born in Los Angeles. Her mother was born in Concord, California, and her father, Adam Vallejo, was born in San Angelo, Texas, and graduated from UCLA in 1951. Her father entered the United States Air Force as a commissioned officer and the family moved to Germany. Ms....
, Esteban Villa
Esteban Villa
Esteban Villa is a nationally recognized artist and muralist. A Professor Emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, his teaching career began in 1962 at the high school level and includes assignments at Washington State University, D–Q University, University of California, Davis, and...
, and María Helena Viramontes.
Arts Library
The Arts Library is a branch library of the UCSB Library, holding materials relating to art and music. The Library holds some 200,000 volumes, including more than 110,000 books, journals, videos, microforms, and CD-ROMCD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....
s; 95,000 auction and exhibition catalogs; and some 60,000 sound recordings and music scores
Sheet music
Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols; like its analogs—books, pamphlets, etc.—the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens...
. The music library is housed on the second floor of the Arts Library and includes some 25,000 LP record
LP record
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
s. The music collection includes a non-circulating Goethe Collection includes almost 200 items relating to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
, including several first and early editions
Edition (book)
The bibliographical definition of an edition includes all copies of a book printed “from substantially the same setting of type,” including all minor typographical variants.- First edition :...
of Goethe's writings and musical settings of his poetry by Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
, Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
, Walther Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Friedrich Reichardt
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
Johann Friedrich Reichardt was a German composer, writer and music critic.-Early life:Reichardt was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, to lutenist and Stadtmusiker Johann Reichardt . Johann Friedrich began his musical training, in violin, keyboard, and lute, as a child...
, and Carl Friedrich Zelter
Carl Friedrich Zelter
Carl Friedrich Zelter was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music.Zelter became friendly with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and his works include settings of Goethe's poems...
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