UCLA Library bridges collections, scholarship and innovation, helping students, faculty and public scholars generate knowledge at the intersection of teaching, learning and research. The 2024-2025 UCLA Library Impact Report highlights three stories that demonstrate the Library's deep connection to the university’s academic mission and the broader Los Angeles region. From preserving and making accessible a century of community memory nearly lost in the tragic Los Angeles wildfires, to helping an undergraduate engage their curiosity — resulting in a prize-winning research project, to contributing to L.A.’s cultural imagination through one of the most expansive arts events in the world, UCLA Library remains steadfast in its commitment to advance the university’s local and global priorities while prioritizing scaled and targeted services and preeminent collections that promote academic success. Our campus benefits from the vast expertise across all disciplines and the enduring curiosity of all who engage in the Library. The intersections of knowledge at UCLA Library brings the world to our patrons. In doing so, we support their individual trajectories toward creating a future that is sustainable, healthy and informed.
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Explore this past year's curated selection of physical and digital library materials to get familiar with our preeminent collections. See more featured collections on our website.
This oral history series documents Ashe's accomplishments as a tennis player and civil rights activist, as well as stories of parallel historical moments beyond the scope of tennis
Reflecciones provides a critical moving image record of how Chicana/o/x communities represented themselves on television during a pivotal time of social change in Los Angeles
A collection of photographs from the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), founded to address conditions in the tourist industry, a significant generator of poverty in Los Angeles
The Willis Bell Archive contains photographic negatives and prints by American photographer Willis E. Bell, who documented life in Ghana, West Africa, during the post-colonial period (1957-1978)
The collection contains Bonnie Cashin's personal archive documenting her design career through design illustrations, writings, paperwork, photographs, press materials and personal memorabilia
The UCLA Film & Television Archive has digitally preserved and made available online over 175 episodes of the African American news and magazine television program "For Members Only"
This collection contains oral histories documenting long-term African American business ownership in the Los Angeles area
Collection of panorama photographs, correspondence, meeting minutes, audio-visual materials and more from the largest Japanese American Buddhist organization
Watch trailers from some of the 91 events presented at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum last year, attracting more than 9,800 attendees from across L.A. Explore FTVA's YouTube channel for film and TV history.
Part of Getty’s ‘PST ART: Art & Science Collide’ initiative, the series showcased nearly 40 independent sci-fi features, documentaries, shorts and TV productions from 21 countries
An exploration of Asian American experiences and activism around labor, education and housing using materials from the Steve Louie collection
The Modern Endangered Archives Program announced 26 new grants awarded to projects from 21 countries
Chicago-based Taiwanese composer Yi-Ting Lu named the winner of Resonate 2024: An Open Access Call for Scores
Four-year MOU empowers more UCLA, UC authors to share their scholarship openly worldwide
A unique archiving collaboration between the UCLA School of Dentistry and UCLA Library sheds light on the process of safeguarding university history
As founding director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Rosen grew the collection into the world’s largest university-based repository of original film and television materials
The Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship at the UCLA Library advances scholarship for future generations
The Ahmanson Foundation is helping create a new space designed specifically to support a new generation of students
Over 50 narrative and documentary short and feature films were shown during Queer Rhapsody, a celebration of LGBTQ+ films
The Modern Endangered Archives Program's digitized collections help to advance UCLA's teaching and learning mission
Hearst Metrotone News Collection uniquely documents the domestic and international events of its time
The fall lineup of public programs featured a diverse range of screenings for film and TV enthusiasts of all ages
Lisa Cholodenko’s acclaimed 1998 debut feature received its restoration premiere at the Billy Wilder Theater, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and collaborators
The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities hosted a film series in celebration of Giant Robot’s 30-year anniversary
Recently described manuscripts illustrate the rich history of Islamic manuscript culture in Palestine from the medieval period to the early 20th century
Supported by Milestone Films, Kino Lorber, and a UCLA 4K restoration, another Burnett film returned with Burnett attending to receive the Black Harvest Film Festival Legacy Award
Nakamura teamed up with the Archive to co-curate a screening series, A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary
UCLA Library locations mirror the different seasons, offering students fresh, mood-matching spaces to study and stay motivated year-round
Staff curated a selection of footage from the Hearst Metrotone News Collection featuring student activities from across the globe
“PST ART: Art & Science Collide” offered opportunities to experience Indigenous perspectives
The Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library was originally named for Rubsamen in 1976 to honor his scholarship and his library advocacy
Digitized materials highlighting EWP’s formation and history will be made accessible through UCLA Library Digital Collections
The Modern Endangered Archives Program preserves global cultural heritage, including the collections of Sudanese women activists
Alexandra Solodkaya and Diana King teach tailored workshops that help build students' research skills for academic and lifelong success
For 20 years, this program which connects scholars with archives has launched careers and preserved history, benefiting researchers and the library's mission
The line up included the beloved television character Lt. “Columbo,” works from French New Wave filmmaker Luc Moullet and trailblazer Ida Lupino
Librarians at UCLA’s Biomedical Library partner with doctors, nurses, researchers, and students to design comprehensive literature searches
With the Journal Open Access Look-up Tool (JOLT), UC authors can search more than 10,000 journal titles
UCLA Library Preservation & Conservation has compiled resources for those impacted by the recent L.A. wildfires
A film clip of MLK speaking on campus is among the artifacts from UCLA Library collections included in this UCLA Newsroom story
UCLA Library Conservation and Preservation and the Film & Television Archive are preserving endangered pieces of cultural heritage for future generations
UCLA arts creators and institutions took center stage at the nation’s largest art event, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the latest iteration of the Getty’s expansive initiative
A century of Bruin pride comes to life in the UCLA yearbook archive
New agreement enables UC corresponding authors to publish open access in nearly 500 OUP journals at reduced or no cost
The full collection of Thompson’s gifted materials are now accessible to researchers
James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave star as neighbors turned lovers in “The Annihilation of Fish,” newly restored in 4K by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and partners
UCLA students contemplated revolution in science fiction literature during class visit to UCLA Library Special Collections
Line up included a tribute to David Lynch and a selection of international cinema, groundbreaking independent films and newly restored works
The 2025 Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music grantees will receive awards between $1,000 and $5,000
The UCLA Film & Television Archive includes over 350,000 movies, 170,000 TV shows and 27 million feet of newsreel footage
Billy Wilder Theater will host a screening of "Japanese Paper Films", showcasing rare pre-war Japanese films known as kami firumu
The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Farhang Foundation present a program of films highlighting identity, resistance, cultural heritage and the quest for justice
Over 50 endangered videotapes preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive are now available on UCLA Library Digital Collections
A selection of Hearst newsreels from the UCLA Film & Television Archive capture the last days of World War II
America’s largest surviving archive of newsreel films has many clips online, providing a timely opportunity to revisit the past on V.E. Day
As president of Columbia Pictures' television division, John H. Mitchell was an industry pioneer whose endowment has left a lasting legacy
A couple's devotion to libraries and a passion for local performing arts led to a UCLA Library endowment
A new website helps the Archive bring the Hearst newsreel collection to global audiences, in partnership with the Packard Humanities Institute
Eighteen students rewarded for their impressive research using Library resources across diverse academic disciplines
The diverse lineup includes domestic and international moving images, and features partnerships and in-person special guests
UCLA Film & Television Archive led the restoration, funding and re-release of "The Sealed Soil," the earliest extant feature film directed by a woman from Iran
The Red Shoes received a digital restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, correcting significant damage to the original negatives, and was screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Individual manuscripts endowed by Muslim women are held in UCLA Library Special Collections as part of the Islamicate manuscript collection
UCLA Health and the Library’s Stressbusters program partner to provide students an opportunity to decompress during one of the busiest times of the academic year
Biswas was honored for her work leading UCLA Library’s Ethical Description Project Team, which supports inclusive access to UCLA collections
Filmmaker and archival researcher Ariel West will develop a new project with the Archive as its 2025 artist-in-residence
The Library catalogs and preserves the second-largest collection of Islamicate and Arabic-script manuscripts in North America
UCLA Library’s Dorothy Arzner collection reveals the wit, legacy and private world of a filmmaker who lived life on her own terms
New transformative open access agreement will accelerate publishing and expand access to high-quality research in physics and related disciplines
UCLA Library joins faculty and other staff to help guide and advance the use of AI technology in teaching and learning
Images from UCLA Library Special Collections illustrated a Smithsonian Magazine story covering a 1936 border patrol
The UCLA Film & Television Archive screened a centennial retrospective of the monumental filmmaker’s body of work, with many of the films screened in 35mm
UCLA Library Strategic Communications and Marketing Ariane Bicho, Courtney Hoffner, Suzy Lee, Sally Márquez, Jennifer Rhee, Kip Hannan. Student Assistants Irene Jeon, Iris Lim. Special Thanks Everyone across the UCLA Library for the opportunity to share your work.
