Humanities and Social Sciences

Dini Ostrov was a graduate of UCLA in French history and was one of the university's most ardent and creative philanthropists. Since her days as an editor of the Daily Bruin, Ms. Ostrov's love for words and the classical aesthetic were the èlan vital of her work in...

Marianne Puncheon has the soul of a true collector. Throughout her life she has created unique assemblages of objects ranging from sculpture to books, each well chosen, sometimes rare, and always with an interesting story behind it.  Her most impressive collection started in 1989 when a single...

Marvin Smotrich earned a degree in zoology from UCLA in 1959, and he has two treasured memories of the UCLA Library. One is of the beauty of the Powell Library building, and the other is of books housed in open stacks, where while searching for one title, browsing among its neighbors often...

First as a student and later as a librarian, Raymond Soto spent thirty-three years of his adult life at the UCLA Library, with only a few brief forays outside the campus. Filled with dedication and purpose, Mr. Soto embraced each position he held conscientiously and zealously. The pinnacle of...

Even before she entered UCLA's library school as part of its legendary first class, Marie Waters began working for the UCLA Library as a student assistant in the reference department. Thus she learned early to mine the riches of reference resources for students and faculty, a skill she refined...

When Betty Lou Young was growing up in Long Beach, she and her family often took weekend excursions to Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, and she grew curious about what she described as “the wooded canyon where the public roads ended.” Some twenty years later she...