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2017 LAUC-LA Librarian of the Year – Zoe Borovsky The UCLA Library is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s LAUC-LA Librarian... more

Every day is preservation day at the UCLA Library. Preservation is written into our vision statement, and all of us work to make sure... more

Blog post by Processing Archivist, Kelly Kress Above: Gilbert Morgan in his shop. ​While driving or walking down Sunset Boulevard east of... more

Curious about the process of book conservation treatment? Be sure to visit UCLA Library Special Collections this week for a flash exhibit... more

Cuban hip-hop duo, Obsesión, visited Special Collections as part of their week-long residency at UCLA Library. Their stay at UCLA will... more

You might have heard them playing their post-Valentine’s concert on February 18. Perhaps they provided the perfect cadence to study to... more

Cosplayers, videogamers, and geeks of all kinds unite during UCLA’s annual Geek Week, held early in Spring Quarter of each academic year.... more

Dear Donors and Supporters of the UCLA Library,    I’m delighted to share news about recent changes in the Library’s senior staff.... more

The UCLA Library is proud to announce that a database of collection endowments is now available to browse at www.library.ucla.edu/... more

INVESTMENTS BY LIBRARY DONORS in vital, highly used resources, innovative services, and high-tech spaces enable UCLA to attract and... more

One sunny afternoon in September 1974, Andy Stancliffe stopped by the Library’s personnel office to fill out an application for a student... more

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