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Among the events are research workshops, lectures and film screenings, including a retrospective tribute to John Sayles.

The Archive is the sixth largest moving image repository in the world, and second only to the Library of Congress in the U.S.

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier.

California Preservation Foundation recognized the Clark for preserving its treasured aesthetic while upgrading for safety and accessibility.

Arcadia Fund grant will help open access to rare manuscripts from St. Catherine’s Monastery.

The archival and architectural treasure was closed for two years for seismic retrofitting and to bring the building into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

UCLA Library scholars worked with partners at St. Catherine’s Monastery and the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library on the five-year Sinai Palimpsests Project.

A book of 1893 drawings by a Union veteran was painstakingly restored by UCLA Library Special Collections.

Brian Schottlaender comes from UC San Diego to head the Senior Fellows Program.

UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library has named a new head librarian. Anna Chen will join the Clark this summer, arriving from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A portrait of Oscar Wilde that typically hangs in a small hallway inside UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Library will be on public display next month for the first time in Great Britain.

David Hirsch is the librarian for Jewish, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, South Asian and Armenian studies at UCLA Library. It’s unusual for one person to have responsibility for so many different regions.

Thanks to the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, more than 60 recordings of performances by trumpeter, composer and bandleader Don Ellis (1934-1978) are now available for your online listening pleasure.

Ginny Steel, the Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, has been elected to chair the steering committee of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

The UCLA Sephardic Archive has acquired one of the most significant collections ever assembled chronicling Los Angeles Sephardic Jewish history.

University Librarian Ginny Steel said Powell has been “one of the library’s most generous and visionary donors for many, many years, and this magnificent gift further demonstrates the strength of his support.”

Parker, UCLA deputy university librarian, in a Green Room interview Zócalo Public Square.

More than 400 — from English to Duala — according to UCLA Library staff who created an infographic to illustrate.

Gordon Davidson, the late artistic director of the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, began his career in Los Angeles at UCLA and the university library is home to his papers.

For a child, getting a library card for the first time is a tangible expression of growth, opportunity and responsibility. It's a pre-driver's license of sorts.

UCLA deputy librarian Susan Parker joins the discussion at a Zócalo/WeHo Reads event in West Hollywood.

The history of Joe Bruin, flashcards, the pep squad and more in an exhibit at UCLA's Powell Library.

A valuable resource for research on the United Kingdom's historic vote to exit the European Union, the archive is a collection of 46 of the campaign's most important websites.

A professor of history, Terrall will also lead UCLA's Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies.

Thanks to a major grant from The Ahmanson Foundation, scholars and students will have access to digital copies of some 1,100 rare and unique Syriac and Arabic manuscripts.