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Book artist/printer Bob Wakefield's 2009 work, An Alphabet of Extinct Mammals, is on exhibit at the UCLA Louise M. Biomedical Library (1st... more

  Poetry, art, and Los Angeles Aqueduct-related primary sources on exhibit in front of UCLA Library Special Collections through March 18,... more

Now through March 2nd, 2014 in the lobby of Library Special Collections in A1713 YRL. As part of its ongoing program of flash exhibits... more

Selections from the UCLA Library’s Baby Record Books Collection are on exhibit in the UCLA Powell Library Rotunda through April, 2014. “... more

Antikamnia calendar illustrated by Louis Crucius, printed 1898 for 1899(Collection of material about Antikamnia, Biomed Ms. Coll. no. 508... more

Aldous Huxley and the Visionary Experience Selections from the Aldous and Laura Huxley Papers Fall Quarter 2013 YRL Special Collections... more

On August 28, 1963 approximately 200,000 people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Ralph J. Bunche Papers... more

In response to recent news out of St. Mary’s Hospital in London, we recommend a title or two from our UCLA Library Baby Books Collection... more

Frontispiece portrait of the author from Georg Eberhard Rumpf’s Het amboinsch kruid-boek (Herbarium Amboinense), 1750 (Biomed *QK R937h... more

When Vicksburg, Mississippi was under siege by the Union Army in the spring of 1863, provisions became so scarce that newspaper proprietors... more

The portrait medal of Hippocrates (copper, 95 mm) was designed by Jacques Devigne for the Paris Mint in 1983. It is Sonnenschein #0650 in... more

On Earth Day, April 22nd, the whole of UCLA joined the hospitals and health science campuses to become tobacco- and smoke-free... more

Exhibit on view April 5 to April 26 The true power of provenance is that it can connect the biographies of individuals from various walks... more

UCLA Library is pleased to collaborate with UCLA Center for the Art of Performance’s presentation of Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish: A Hal... more

Selections from the Gordon Wagner Papers (Collection 1594) and the text of an oral history interview done by the Center for Oral History... more

  History & Special Collections for the Sciences has purchased each new release of GIANTmicrobes® since 2004 and recently passed the... more

Phyllis Diller, Comedian, Actress, Pioneer, Passes Away But Lives Forever at UCLA Library Special Collections The great comedic legend,... more

This summer in the CFPRT I processed the Lloyd Cotsen Cuneiform Tablet Collection, focusing primarily on the literary and lexical texts in... more

It’s not easy to find an Aldine press book that UCLA doesn’t already hold in its Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, a world-renowned... more

Currently on display in Library Special Collections (Charles E. Young Research Library) are comic books of The 99 (Arabic: الـ ٩٩ al 99),... more