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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

[Ed. Note: MLIS student / preservation assistant Hillary McCreery Holley prepared some questions for me and I've tried to answer below.... more

[Ed. Note:  We are celebrating Preservation Week at UCLA Library. MLIS student and preservation assistant Hilary McCreery Holley is... more

The advertising for our Summer Internship went out to various listservs on February 24. There's still time to apply!  The UCLA Library... more

Leonard Nimoy, Portrait Collection (PASC 204), UCLA Library Special Collections. How could Leonard Nimoy have possibly known that the... more

Research Apprenticeship: Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, class visit to UCLA Library Special Collections. This quarter, I am... more

[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

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

Detail from "Storyteller Without Words: the Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward" (New York : Abrams, [1974]), UCLA Library Special Collections... more

Dino Everett let the audience handle this tiny movie camera, invented by Eric Berndt in the early 1960s. ED. NOTE: Stalwart AV grad... more

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

UCLA History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Research Forum is a series which provides opportunities for faculty, students, staff, and... more

A mini-exhibit of old favorites and recent acquisitions in the History & Special Collections for the Sciences section of UCLA Library... more

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

   My work as a conservation technician for the UCLA Libraries Conservation Center exposes me to a broad range of materials from special... more

  July 2013 saw me begin an eight week internship at UCLA Libraries Conservation Center, under the skilled supervision of collections... more

Jesse R. Erickson has recently published his paper, “Revolution in Black: Black American Alternative Press and Popular Culture at the End... more

My last blog post introduced some tricky video formats that could potentially store audio information in their depths. As promised, here is... more

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

This second blog post focuses on paper labels that have been cut into patterns before being adhered to the bookbindings. For pictures of... more