About the Collections

Other Campus Collections

At a Glance

In addition to the UCLA Library, many other information resources are available to the UCLA community. The archives and collections listed below are independently managed by individual UCLA departments and centers. For information about access policies and hours of service, contact the archive or library directly.

ASUCLA Library

Student governance, Daily Bruin (1974 to present), and other materials

American Indian Studies Center Library

Monographs, periodicals, dissertations, pamphlets, and newsletter on American Indian life, culture, and state of affairs in historical and contemporary perspectives

Asian American Studies Center Reading Room/Library

Asian and Pacific-American resources

Center for African American Studies Library and Media Center (Ralph J. Bunche)

Newspapers, journals, books, photographs, pamphlets, audiovisual sources and other research materials reflecting the African American experience in the social sciences, arts, and humanities

Chicano Studies Research Center Library and Archive

Books, journals, audiovisual materials, and manuscripts related to Chicano and Latino cultures

English Reading Room (Grace M. Hunt Memorial)

Non-circulating collection of English and American literature, literary history, and criticism

Ethnomusicology Archive

Among the largest ethnographic sound recording archives in North America; collections include non-commercial field recordings and commercially produced recordings of traditional, folk, popular, and art music from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific islands, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas in a variety of audiovisual formats; contains listening and viewing facilities

Film and Television Archive

Motion pictures including silent era, classic Hollywood, documentaries and newsreels, animated cartoons, foreign, and contemporary American telecasting from 1945 to date; and news and public affairs programs from 1970 to date

Instructional Media Collections and Services

UCLA's central resource for the collection and maintenance of instructional media; collection of approximately eight thousand videotapes, laserdiscs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, films, and slide/tape modules as well as several department, media labs, and study center collections

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center

More than four thousand books, films/DVDs, and journals

UCLA Lab School Library (Gonda Family)

Collections tailored for the elementary school curriculum