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icture of Islamic manuscript in the background. “Karmiole Fellow Lecture Series” “A Network of Islamic Manuscript Dealers and the Collections They Shaped: From Istanbul and Cairo to Dublin, Princeton and Los Angeles” Monday, July 27 2 to 3:30 p.m. Charles E. Young Research Library.
Doug Daniels, wearing yellow-framed glasses and a dark button-up shirt, stands beside Matthew Vest, who wears black-framed glasses, a patterned shirt, tie, and brown blazer.
City Hall decorated for 4th of July, Los Angeles, 1895, LA Views Photograph Collection 99.
Celebrating Our 2026 UCLA Library Graduates. Congrats #UCLA2026 grads! Background image collage of twenty of the graduating student workers at UCLA Library.
UCLA soccer player Paul Caligiuri (standing, third from right) with the team at the 1986 FIFA World Cup All-Star Game, July 1986.
A promotional poster for UCLA Library's "Resonate 2026: A Call for Scores with Ensemble SORI and Decoda." It highlights no application fees, openness to all composers, and three $1,000 prizes. Deadline: June 15, 2026. More details at go.library.ucla.edu/resonate. Supported by a UCLA Global Research Award. Background features musical instruments.
Image features a cassette tape with handwritten labels. The text describes the Digital Archive of the Indigenous Languages of the Amazon / Archivo Digital de las Lenguas Indígenas de la Amazonia (ARDILIA) project, which is preserving Indigenous languages, knowledge and cultural memory in the Colombian Amazon through UCLA Library's Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) project. UCLA Library's logo is at the bottom right.
Marilyn Monroe poses on the set of The Asphalt Jungle.
“Press Play: Surveying A/V materials in UCLA Library Special Collections. Project manager Joseph Gallucci describes the ongoing effort to document audiovisual materials across Library Special Collections, including discoveries along the way.”
Tule Lake Japanese Language Library Collection: Preservation repairs through time. Book & Paper Conservator Nicole Alvarado describes the treatment of books from the Tule Lake collection, preserving improvised repairs that reflect their use in a WWII incarceration camp.
UCLA Bruin Giving Day: Three students examine a map, the center student pointing to it.
Print illustration of a deity-like figure with scroll designs and temple in the background. A blue box with text overlays the illustration. “Lecture Series Training the Trainers: Materialities of Ming Books and Manuscripts May 4 to July 27 Monday 4-5:30 p.m. Zoom webinar RSVP: go.library.ucla.edu/mingseries UCLA Library logo”
Preservation Week: Know Your Pests. Preservation & Conservation staff highlight common collection pests and the role of Integrated Pest Management in protecting library materials
The UCLA Festival of Preservation returns May 29–31. Free to the public, the 22nd biennial festival celebrates the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s latest preservation and restoration work. Image of “The Other Love” (1947), courtesy of United Artists / Photofest.
movie poster Ojalá Supieras (I Wish You Knew) Tuesday, May 5 5:30 p.m. Charles E. Young Research Library ucla.in/3O36Y9J UCLA Library
1) A librarian shelving books 2) A library worker handing a set of headphones to a student 3) A librarian assisting a student at a desk 4) A librarian showing a student a book
An African American man speaks into a microphone with a redacted bar over his eyes. A stamp labeled "TOP SECRET STUDENT ACTIVISM" to his right. The visual is in an old newspaper article aesthetic. Student Activism: A Reckoning in the Archives Keynote Speaker Robin D.G. Kelley Monday, April 20 | 10-11 a.m. Charles E. Young Research Library
Man and woman picking flowers at a flower mart on street corner
UCLA Film & Television Archive unveils free spring programs. Restorations, retrospectives, and other special programs are free to the public from March 22 to June 28. Image of “Coming to America” (1988)
Powell Library
nominations open! librarian of the year 2026 Know a librarian who deserves to be recognized for their contributions? Nominations due: Mon, March 30 bit.ly/LOTY_2026 collage of previous winners
Eugene Chan and Barbara Jean Wong during Chinese New Year celebration in Los Angeles.
Picture of the Capitol Building "The Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences" “Measuring and Promoting Effective Lawmaking in Congress and the States.
Open Position. Assistant Director, Library Special Collections. Salary range: $75,958 - $147,852. The UCLA Library seeks a highly collaborative, inclusive and knowledgeable leader to serve as Assistant Director of Library Special Collections (LSC). The Assistant Director reports to and serves as a key thought partner to the Director of Library Special Collections/AUL for Distinctive Collections. They work with the Library’s senior management team to implement Library-wide goals and priorities; cultivate leadership and management skills in support of organizational advancement; and contribute to the development of a Library culture that embraces responsible and ethical stewardship and centers equity, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of their work, ensuring a holistic approach to sustainable collection stewardship and access. Applications due February 25.
View of Broadway in downtown Los Angeles in Safety Last! (1923)
Pershing Square in winter
L-R: Miguel García-Garibay, Athena Jackson and David Kim
Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices grant awarded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The $296,615 grant will move the Library closer to its goal of describing and conserving the 10,000-bound manuscript volumes that comprise its Islamicate and Arabic-script manuscript collection. Photo of Endowment statement in red ink from Rahimah Khatun, gifting a commentary on the Qur'an to a mosque in Anatolia.
2025 UCLA Library holiday card featuring seasonal greetings from Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian Athena Jackson and a 1938 illustrated postcard of Westwood Village’s ice skating rink. The postcard reads: “Open Air Ice Skating the Year Round, Westwood Village, Calif.” Card design: Irene Jeon, Class of 2027
Bunche Hall, home to the UCLA International Institute.
Contemporary Music Score Collection: 500,000+ views on eScholarship!
Students studying in main reading room of Powell Library.
UCLA Film & Television Archive welcomes 2026 with eclectic program Dozen of screenings of restorations, premieres, and film and TV treasures are free to the public from Jan 16-March 22
East West Players audiovisual collection materials now available to researchers. Digitized recordings from the nation’s longest-running Asian American theater company are now available through UCLA Library.
2024-2025 UCLA Library Impact Report: Intersections of Knowledge. Photo of Library student ambassadors and faculty holding UCLA 4s up hand signs.
A composite of six top down photos of six of the seven bird mosaics. From left to right, top to bottom they display a parrot, gallinule, a damaged tile with an unidentified bird, peacock, duck, and dove.
2026 Library Special Collections Research Fellowships. Apply by December 1, 2025. Photo of four people handing an old newspaper.
UCLA Blue & Gold Challenge November 2-9, 2025 True Blue Pure Gold crowdfunding.ucla.edu/uclalibrary
Two students studying at Powell Library using a laptop and iPad.
Cover of the children's magazine Yōnen kurabu with red text in Japanese at the top and a drawing below of three children in sailor style uniforms outdoors with the sky and a mountain and field behind them. They all look towards the left in the direction that one of the children is pointing. Material Culture of the Tule Lake Japanese Language Library. Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, UCLA Library.
Ray Bradbury contemplates a picture that was part of a project at UCLA to illustrate characters in Bradbury's science-fiction.
📆 Tuesday, October 7 | 1 p.m. From the Unseen to Foresight: Epidemic Modeling in the Age of Computing and AI Alessandro Vespignani Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor Northeastern University
2025-26 Modern Endangered Archives Program Grants. Apply by November 17, 2025: ucla.in/4n8aJGS
Photo of Sandy Gooch. UCLA Library acquires papers of natural foods pioneer and educator Sandy Gooch. The entrepreneur, who has several ties to UCLA, turned her passion for health and wellness into a successful supermarket chain.
Ornate manuscript cover featuring an ivory relief engraving of Christ on the cross with portions inlaid with gold. The border features colorful precious stones set in gold bezel and intertwined with gold beadwork.
Welcome ALL BRUINS. Photo collage of students, faculty and librarians taking part in Library programs with True Bruin Welcome stickers.
photos of UCLA research and researchers throughout the decades
UCLA Library funds 34 international cultural preservation projects. This year’s cohort includes digitization efforts representing Angola, Bulgaria and Ethiopia. Top: Contact sheet by Angolan photographer Paulino Damião. Bottom: Photos capturing Bulgarian police preventing Macedonians from commemorating poet Anton Popov (Petrich, Bulgaria) c. 1992 - 1993.
Collage of manuscripts. Glimpses of Islamic manuscript culture in Palestine. Recently described manuscripts illustrate the rich history of Islamic manuscript culture in Palestine from the medieval period to the early 20th century.
Drum Magazine cover, East Africa edition, April 1966. BAHA Drum Magazine Archive (1950-1987), UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP).
Sudden Fear (1952). RKO Radio Pictures / Photofest.
Ruth Bunche, Ralph J. Bunche, and Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) in front of Bunche Hall, UCLA, 1969. Ralph J. Bunche papers, UCLA Library Special Collections.
Garment Worker at Work, 2004-2005. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Actors Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder at movie premiere of "Superman" in Hollywood, Calif., 1978. Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections.
Action Comics Superman, October 1990. Jonathan Friedlander Collection of Middle Eastern Americana, 1875-2006, UCLA Library Special Collections.
three members of the band Lovedolls Superstar
Verna Fields at work, ca. 1970s.
Arthur Ashe on Court. University Archives, UCLA Library Special Collections.
unlocked lock on top of map of the United States