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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS spend their lives online, checking in with friends, listening to music, viewing the world through a smartphone’s... 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

In conservation we often work on objects that take our breath away. Many times its because they are amazing, sometimes its because they... more

  Recent visitors to Powell might notice a new exhibit in the second-floor Rotunda. Entitled American Concentration Camps, the exhibit... more

David Hirsch, UCLA's librarian forJewish, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, South Asian, and Armenian Studies, was the subject of a featured... more

Early last year, I began working on digitization prep for what we at the Preservation Department refer to as the Hebraica Collection. Since... more

Wikipedia has an entry for Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, or the practice of binding books in human skin. A group of scholars and scientists... more

blog post by Jessica Tai, Archival Processing Scholar, CFPRT The Center for Primary Research and Training, part of UCLA Library Special... more

In late October, a real treasure from UCLA Library Special Collections arrived in the lab for treatment.  It was a gem of a sketchbook,... more

Author/Photographer Emma Guerard, Conservation Assistant Posted by Chela Metzger, Head, Library Conservation Center The UCLA libraries have... more

Webinar Feb 17, 2017 at 12:00 PM EST. ICPSR has established an open-access archive, DataLumos, where the public can archive valuable... more

blog post by 2016 IFLA Fellow, Cecilia Tsai I am a second-year Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) Candidate from the UCLA... more

The essential first step that every conservator takes when beginning a project is documentation. This essential step is where we record... more

UCLA Library Preservation, with support from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, is digitizing the audiovisual materials... more

blog post by Genie Guerard In January 2010, the Governor of California signed a legislative bill that established Fred Korematsu Day of... more

Registration opens on Turesday, February 7, 2017 for the ICPSR Summer Program. Hands-on training in statistical techniques and research... more

Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research! Recognizing and honoring excellence in... more

Ginny Steel, the Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, has been elected to the position of chair of the SPARC steering committee.... more

Blog post by Jesse Siragan Arlen, CFPRT Scholar Third in a series of blog posts chronicling finds in the V. Vale Collection, currently... more

blog post by Genie Guerard As described by Graham in an interview at the time, “This dance is supposed to bring back to its full meaning... more