2023-2024 UCLA Library Impact Report: Community of Care
At UCLA Library, we take immense pride in contributing to the excellence that has consistently ranked UCLA as the #1 public university for eight years. As an intellectual center, the Library advances academic success, empowering students, faculty and researchers with access to world-class resources, innovative programs and transformative spaces for discovery and connection. Our achievements are deeply rooted in the Library’s commitment to cultivating a community of care. The 2023-2024 UCLA Library Impact Report spotlights the Library’s efforts to embrace new practices that nurture belonging, encourage curiosity and build trust among colleagues. At the same time, the Library has continued to advance UCLA priorities, from deepening our engagement with Los Angeles and building global reach to offering scaled and targeted services that enhance research and creative activities.
- Athena N. Jackson, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian
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A Conversation with Athena N. Jackson and Wendy Slusser
The partnership between UCLA Library and Semel Healthy Campus Initiative — how interdisciplinary connections foster a healthy campus
2023-2024 UCLA Library by the Numbers
- 18 million+Titles in Library collections
- 38,000Equipment loans
- 27,992Students who engaged in Library programs
- 25Materials loaned for international exhibition
- 4 millionObjects in UCLA Library Digital Collections
- 14,682UCLA Film & Television Archive program attendees
- 8.5 millionAnnual website visits
- 25,311Reference sessions
- 85,682Open access materials in eScholarship
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Making Materials Discoverable
An online journal, a data set, a book in the stacks, a box of letters, a film for a class — Library staff bring care to the scholarly community by making materials discoverable
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UCLA Film & Television Archive Featured Programs
Watch trailers from four of 133 events presented at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, attracting 14,500+ attendees from across L.A. Explore FTVA's YouTube channel for film and TV history
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Best of News
Celebrate Star Trek Day the Bruin way
For Star Trek Day, two UCLA scholars, including a UCLA Library Special Collections archivist, discuss how the show influenced them
UCLA Library funds 30 international cultural preservation projects
Materials will be digitized and made available online to researchers around the world
UCLA Library receives James Horner's archive
UCLA Library Special Collections receives James Horner's personal archive, a composer known for large-scale orchestral film scores
Staff news: Kelly Besser appointed to LAPL Board of Library Commissioners
Kelly Besser, a UCLA Library Special Collections archivist, became the first librarian to serve on the Los Angeles Public Library Board of Library Commissioners
At UCLA, political cartoon collection gift includes provisions for maintenance, instruction
The Michael and Susan Kahn Political Cartoon Collection contains thousands of images, periodicals, books and ephemera dating back to the late 17th century
Diverse communities of Los Angeles, 1970–1980: Preserving and ethically describing historic KTLA newsfilm
The news stories were preserved and made available thanks to a generous grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
New classroom opens access to primary sources
More students can access UCLA Library's rare and unique materials in the purpose-built Distinctive Collections Classroom
Materials from legendary Hollywood production house Mirisch Corp. now at UCLA Library
The collection includes script copies from films and shows, fan letters and Mirisch’s personal correspondence
6 films with UCLA ties named to National Film Registry for 2023
Most made by students, and three preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the films were chosen because of their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance
Movies in peril: How restorationists are saving celluloid
Features interviews with UCLA Film & Television Archive preservationists about the history of motion picture preservation
Athena Jackson named UCLA university librarian
Former head of special collections returns to campus following her tenure as dean of libraries at University of Houston
‘The Annihilation of Fish’ restored in 4K
Long-lost feature to be released for the first time ever in celebration of the film’s 25th anniversary and the 80th birthday of director Charles Burnett
UCLA Library awards grants to nine faculty and student music projects
Funds from the Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music will support new work, performances and research advancing contemporary music
Oldest color entertainment videotape discovered, preserves the ‘Kraft Music Hall Starring Milton Berle’
The UCLA Film & Television Archive preserved and screened the oldest known surviving color videotape of an entertainment program
UCLA Film & Television Archive – De Los Angeles à Paris
The UCLA Film & Television Archive was recognized at the 2024 Festival of the Cinémathèque française. Over the past two decades, the Archive has loaned more than 200 prints for Cinémathèque programming
UCLA Library announces new senior fellows cohort
UCLA Library will welcome 20 top academic library managers for its 2024 UCLA Library Senior Fellows program, which prepares fellows to pursue advanced leadership roles in the field
The Archive selects Esteban Arellano as inaugural artist-in-residence
The UCLA Film & Television Archive selected Esteban Arellano, an emerging multidisciplinary artist and designer, as the inaugural artist for its new artist-in-residence program
Watch UCLA Library's 'L.A. Stories': Inside the Richard Neutra architectural archive
This installment of "L.A. Stories" focuses on Richard Neutra, the architect whose seminal mid-century designs influenced the aesthetics and philosophy of modern architecture in Los Angeles and beyond
2024 UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research winners
Thirteen students are being recognized for incorporating Library resources into their scholarship and research in a variety of academic fields
UCLA joins multi-UC campus effort to build network of open source program offices
$1.85 million grant from the Sloan Foundation expands the UC Network of Open Source Program Offices to include six UC campuses
Tom Reed’s "For Members Only": Black perspectives on local L.A. TV
The UCLA Film & Television Archive preserved and made available online over 175 episodes of For Members Only, an African American news and magazine television program
Acknowledgements
UCLA Library Strategic Communications and Marketing Ariane Bicho, Courtney Hoffner, Suzy Lee, Sally Márquez and Jennifer Rhee, Marisa Soto, Kip Hannan. Student Assistants Irene Jeon, Iris Lim, Joelle Tran. Contributors Caroline Champlin and Shana Nys Dambrot (words); Robert Macaisa (video). Special Thanks Everyone across the UCLA Library for the opportunity to share your work.
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