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The open access project, part of a collaboration with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, is the largest for contemporary musical works in the world.

Clarice Aiello, David Delgado Shorter and Alicia Gaspar de Alba were chosen as recipients of the 2020-21 Affordable Course Materials Initiative awards.

Agreement between UC and Springer Nature will make more research by UCLA authors freely and immediately available to individuals around the world.

HathiTrust is providing emergency access to member institutions, including UCLA, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

A UCLA centennial initiative expands knowledge from Westwood to the world.

UCLA’s Centennial Celebration features four initiatives.

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.

Ray Bradbury’s timeless novel has been adapted into films, plays and video games all over the world, but it all began in the basement of Powell Library.

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.