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black and white photo collage of historic American musicians
Songs by Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers (background), Rosa Lee "Moonshine Kate" Carson (foreground, left) and Eva Taylor are part of a newly uploaded collection to UCSB Library's Discography of American Historical Recordings

Vast collection of historic American music released via UCSB Library partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation

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group of people in whimsical costumes on beach at sunset
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Jeff Liang
UCSB's Naked Shakes

Naked Shakes marks 20th anniversary with Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’
open book with Persian writing and drawing
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Courtesy
Persian poet Saadi Shirazi's 13th-century hand-colored volume.

Rare Iranian treasures, from Qajar era to 1979 Revolution gifted to UCSB Library
Sara Poot Herrera a woman smiling
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Jeff Liang
UCSB Distinguished Professor Sara Poot Herrera

How to build global community through Mexican literature
book cover art of oscar wilde and his wife
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Courtesy
Author Louis Bayard is adapting his novel "The Wildes," which explores Oscar Wilde’s family life, for a staged reading at UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD Summer Series on July 10.

Louis Bayard brings ‘The Wildes’ to UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD series
man with grey and black shoulder length hair and tattoos on his arms
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Jeff Liang
Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck creates spaces for people to define themselves and be seen as they are.

What does it mean to be ‘Hapa?’ Artist Kip Fulbeck reflects on 25-year identity project
Christina Ramsey headshot
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Courtesy Photo

Graduate vocalist represents music community at UCSB Commencement
woman with VR headset
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Yuehao Gao
A visitor experiences virtual reality at a Media Arts & Technology exhibition.

MAT end of year show fuses art and engineering
college age woman of Taiwanese descent sits in studio with branches and canvas
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Debra Herrick
Meiya Sidney '25, College of Creative Studies and art honors

Artist explores Taiwanese heritage and memory though ceramics
Women in bright colored dresses on stage with a blue background
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Luca Meyers
A play about young women on the cusp of their teenage years, “Dance Nation” portrays their conflicting impulses to stand out and blend in.

UCSB stages ‘Dance Nation,’ a play about ambition, competition and coming of age
A student looks at images of bees in the library corridor.
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Harrison Tasoff
Natural history collections like the one housed at UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration hold valuable data accumulated over 100 years.

Take a microscopic look at our native bees at the UCSB Library
Painting of a comet traveling through night sky full of stars
Rose Schlossberg, "Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinstan-ATLAS," 2024

MFA exhibition explores time, space and transformation
black and white photograph of Erico Caruso Jr. on the set of the musical film "El Cantante de Napoles"
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The Erico Caruso Jr. Collection
Erico Caruso Jr. (center) on the set of the 1935 musical "El Cantante de Napoles"

Opera archive honoring famed Italian tenor donated to library
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