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Habemus papam librorum

By Megan Fraser on Thu, 2013-05-30 03:46

In March the world watched anxiously for a puff of white smoke and announcement: "Habemus papam." The election of a new Pope from the new world inspired Jane Carpenter, Library Special Collections Rare Book Cataloguer, to exhibit rare texts of Papal provenance. The six books selected, "our treasures, really" were a small "representation of items from our collection," she said.

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Ahmanson Fellow Delves into Italian Literature Collection

By Megan Fraser on Fri, 2013-05-24 04:32

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Smoking in the Library, the Lab, the Cafeteria … Before the UCLA Tobacco-Free Campus

By Caroline Cubé on Wed, 2013-05-15 02:34

Smokers on UCLA Campus in 1958Blog post by 

Russell Johnson, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, UCLA Library Special Collections

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"A Very Complex Undertaking...": The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (1996-2006) UCLA Library Curators' Conversations on May 16

By Megan Fraser on Tue, 2013-05-14 03:10

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Ahmanson Fellow Begins Research at LSC

By Megan Fraser on Thu, 2013-05-09 05:59

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