UCLA Library News

Dear Donors and Supporters of the UCLA Library, You’ve no doubt seen the toll that humidity, heat, and the passage of years take on your... more

New databases: Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall Met Opera on Demand: Student Access MGG Online - Die Musik in Geschichte und... more

Seventeen top managers of academic libraries have been selected to be Library Senior Fellows at UCLA in 2018. This international cohort... more

The 5-week Engineering Academic Challenge Returns! Are you the best at getting the right answer? Can you and your fellow students get to... more

New Resources: Kanopy Written by Hayley Bricker, UCLA Science Libraries Research Assistant   If you’re a fan of Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon... more

Are you a new sciences graduate student?  Drop by the Science and Engineering Library Research Commons (8th floor Boelter Hall) on 9/27 to... more

  The Sciences Libraries welcome our new librarian, Wynn Tranfield! Wynn holds a BSc from McGill University where she focused on plant... more

Written by Hayley Bricker, Science Libraries Research Assistant Astronomers haven’t yet discovered Planet Nine, but they did discover... more

The extensive Arabic and Syriac manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai will become accessible to scholars around the world... more

For some of us, summer break means almost three months away from anything resembling a textbook. For others, it’s a chance to catch up on... more

Written by Hayley Bricker, Science Libraries Research Assistant. In April 2018, field paleontologists made an astounding discovery that had... more

Written by Hayley Bricker, Sciences Libraries Research Assistant In March and April 2018, Hubble made two astonishing contributions to our... more

Dear Donors and Supporters of the UCLA Library, I suspect that if you ask me what my favorite time of year is, my answer would always... more

“You don’t often get the chance to work with woodblocks, but as I was planning a class trip to UCLA Library Special Collections to look at... more

Stephen Pater loves old cars and old airplanes, so it comes as no surprise to learn that he earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering... more

Think of an engineering education, and what kinds of courses come to mind? Probably lots of math, chemistry, physics, and other specialized... more

“An exam on exams!,” University Archivist Heather Briston excitedly described the final for graduate students in Qing History through... more

The Librarian of the Year Award Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s LAUC-LA Librarian of the Year Award is Doug... more

Blog post by Julie Park (This blog post coincides with a Flash exhibit which is on display in the lobby of Library Special Collections... more

Hawking Tribute “There is no such thing as a standard run-of-the mill human being. And however difficult life may seem, there is always... more