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Library-Email-Banner FY17.jpg Calling all UCLA leisure readers, bookworms and bibliophiles! Summer is the... more

Dear Donors and Supporters of the UCLA Library,    I’m delighted to share news about recent changes in the Library’s senior staff.... more

UCLA LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS houses items as varied as the 125 majors and 80 minors offered across campus. Some 100 classes come to... more

The UCLA Library system is ranked among the top academic research libraries in North America and continues to draw international... more

Donate to the UCLA Library! Whether on campus or online, the Library drives research and innovation at UCLA and beyond. As we look to... more

Dear Donors and Supporters of the UCLA Library,   With the holiday season upon us, I am mindful that we at the UCLA Library have so... more

With generous funding from the Ahmanson Foundation, the UCLA Library has begun a project that will open a remote monastery’s treasured... more

“Mighty oaks from little acorns grow” goes the old proverb. In Norman Powell’s case, the little acorn was his first gift to the UCLA... more

Dear Donors and Supporters of the UCLA Library,   I’m delighted to share exciting news about an accomplishment that wouldn’t have... more

IT ALL STARTED AT A DISCO for Marianne and Abdelmonem Afifi. He was a young UCLA professor on sabbatical in Vienna, and she was a local... more

Balloons and confetti, speeches and sound-bites, pundits and polls – all signal a U.S. election season in full flight. And the surest... more

Well, sort of. A robot and the team of students who created it won the 2016 UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research first place for... more

IT’S BEEN SAID that “No one graduates from the Library, but no one graduates without one either.” Whether students spend hours studying... more

AN INDELIBLE IMAGE of modern dance icon Martha Graham performing Letter to the World ranks among the most famous dance photographs ever... more

Donald and Hisae Dickey supported the UCLA Library in a number of ways, including establishing an endowment to support an area of special... more

Once upon a time, tobacco-related diseases were extremely rare. However, all that changed in the twentieth century after advertising... more

What better way to reinforce learning than to teach others? Nick Versaci, a second-year student majoring in English and statistics, is... more

Written by Katharine E. S. Donahue, Former Head, History and Special Collections for the Sciences   A LIBRARY FRIEND of long-... more

By Sharon E. Farb, Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication   WITH THE RESTORATION of... more

Dear Donors and Supporters of the UCLA Library, This Library newsletter issue’s cover story on Cuba highlights an ever-expanding area of... more