UCLA Library News

Beginning mid June, 2010 I began a summer-long internship working with collections conservator Kristen St. John at the UCLA Library... more

I came across this book in our Performing Arts Antiquarian Collection last week. The book is a score of Jean Joseph Mondonville’s opera... more

The following press release was distributed this morning, about the next phase in planning for the WEST project. I've noted WEST before,... more

On display in the Biomedical Library lobby, this week only:  a charming, medically-oriented handwritten letter from Santa Claus to Anna, a... more

PADG, an email discussion list for the preservation cognoscenti , has included some threads on "digital books and the impact on libraries"... more

I am very pleased to welcome readers to the UCLA Library Special Collections Blog.  UCLA Library holds a vibrant and expansive array of... more

For those who are curious about the Armenian scrolls, we're posting two galleries of photos: #1656 (this post) and #2089. These were taken... more

For those who are curious about the Armenian scrolls, we’re posting two galleries of photos: #2089 (this post) and #1656. These were taken... more

UCLA Library has very rich collections of Armenian materials, including many scrolls. We have had several down to the lab for treatment and... more

A while back, I posted some photos of magnetic media that were in a demoralizing condition. Today, I have just one, brought over for... more

Today’s update comes from Annie Peterson, a Master’s degree student in Library and Information Science, specializing in preservation, at... more

During the 19th and 20th centuries, preservation in research libraries evolved around two functions: preservation and conservation. Roughly... more

This week we're hosting the Image Permanence Institute as part of their research program on energy savings opportunities in libraries. I'm ... more

The first in a series, I suspect. A colleague asked me to post some photos of damaged audio media from my various disaster response... more

I've been involved in early planning efforts for the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST). WEST is a membership organization that will... more

The UCLA Library Preservation Department is offering two internships for the summer of 2010 (application deadline is May 3, 2010). This ... more

We recently had the pleasure of a visit from our colleague David Scott. David is a faculty member in the Department of Art History and... more

In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, "Publishing: The Revolutionary Future," Jason Epstein deployed a nice turn of phrase in... more

And suddenly it's spring. Next week, I'll be in Washington D.C. for the National Archives Preservation Conference, and I'm looking forward... more

UCLA's newspaper, The Daily Bruin, ran a great article this week about open access journal publishing. "GSA's print academic journal Carte... more