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The LSC Blog is moving!
The LSC Blog is in the process of being migrated to the main UCLA Library Special Collections website. Please visit http://www.library.ucla... more
News and Reflections from the UCLA Library’s Preservation Department
[Ed. Note: MLIS student / preservation assistant Hillary McCreery Holley prepared some questions for me and I've tried to answer below.... more
It's Preservation Week!
[Ed. Note:  We are celebrating Preservation Week at UCLA Library. MLIS student and preservation assistant Hilary McCreery Holley is... more
Conservation Center Summer Internship
The advertising for our Summer Internship went out to various listservs on February 24. There's still time to apply!  The UCLA Library... more
In Memoriam: Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015
Leonard Nimoy, Portrait Collection (PASC 204), UCLA Library Special Collections. How could Leonard Nimoy have possibly known that the... more
Uncovering the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden in Special Collections
Research Apprenticeship: Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, class visit to UCLA Library Special Collections. This quarter, I am... more
El Cucaracho
[Editor's note: The following post is from our intrepid AV sleuth, John Kostka, UCLA MIAS '15. If you have any leads regarding El... more
Exhibition: “One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature” at the Grolier Club
If you visit New York City over the holidays or shortly thereafter, be sure to take in a terrific new exhibition at the Grolier Club: One... more
The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It: The Graphic Novels of Lynd Ward
Detail from "Storyteller Without Words: the Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward" (New York : Abrams, [1974]), UCLA Library Special Collections... more
REPORT: AMIA 2014
Dino Everett let the audience handle this tiny movie camera, invented by Eric Berndt in the early 1960s. ED. NOTE: Stalwart AV grad... more
Shin Nichibei - New Japanese American News: A Preservation Project
Ed. Note: This is a guest post from our newest Preservation student assistant, Hilary McCreery. Hilary is about to start her second year in... more
History of Medicine work-in-progress (May 16): “Blind in Palestine: Stories of Treating Trachoma”
UCLA History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Forum is a series which provides opportunities for faculty, students, staff, and... more
Chocolate: From Pod to Package
A mini-exhibit of old favorites and recent acquisitions in the History & Special Collections for the Sciences section of UCLA Library... more
Internship Report: Lyudmyla Bua
As a pre-program art conservation student, the prospect of traveling across the country to be under the tutelage of Kristen St. John at... more
Halloween with Frederik Ruysch by Amanda Burr
   My work as a conservation technician for the UCLA Libraries Conservation Center exposes me to a broad range of materials from special... more
Internship Report: Ashleigh Russell
  July 2013 saw me begin an eight week internship at UCLA Libraries Conservation Center, under the skilled supervision of collections... more
Using Special Collections to Study African-American Print Culture
Jesse R. Erickson has recently published his paper, “Revolution in Black: Black American Alternative Press and Popular Culture at the End... more
Never Judge A Tape By Its Shell, Part II (The Song That Never Ends)
My last blog post introduced some tricky video formats that could potentially store audio information in their depths. As promised, here is... more
Never Judge A Tape By Its Shell: Part I (Beta)
I recently taught a two day workshop in processing archival AV collections. The main objective of this workshop was to teach a handful of... more
Lots of labels (pt. 2)
This second blog post focuses on paper labels that have been cut into patterns before being adhered to the bookbindings. For pictures of... more

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