JOURNALS
Art Margins, edited by Sven Spieker Associate Professor of German, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Camera Obscura, co-edited by Constance Penley, (Department of Film and Media Studies).
eHumanista, is a peer-reviewd electronic journal providing a forum for original research in Spanish and Portuguese Medieval and Early Modern Literatures and Cultures.
Himalayan Linguistics, edited by Carol Genetti, (Department of Linguistics).
Journal of Music Theory, edited by Lee Rothfarb, (Department of Music).
Public Historian, co-edited by Mary Hancock (Departments of History and Anthropology), and Ann Plane, (Department of History).
Taiwan Literature: Chinese-English Bilingual Series, edited by KC Tu, (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies).
Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series, edited by KC Tu, (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies).
Taiwan Literature: Taiwan Studies Series, edited by KC Tu, (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies).
Taiwan Literature: Taiwan Writers Translation Series, edited by KC Tu, (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies).
Theatre Survey, edited by Professor Jody Enders, (Departments of Dramatic Art and French and Italian).
Ventana Abierta, co-edited by Victor Fuentes, (Department of Spanish and Portuguese).
COLLECTIONS
The Libraries at the University of California, Santa Barbara, consist of the Donald C. Davidson Library and the Arts Library. The UCSB Libraries have a collection of approximately 2.7 million volumes, 5,000,000 federal, state, and foreign government publications, and over 315,000 audio recordings. The Library subscribes to over 22,000 serials publications, including over 6,000 electronic journals, and has over 3.7 million microforms, 467,000 maps, and 3.2 million satellite and aerial images. There are 3.2 miles of manuscript and archival collections. Davidson includes such collections as the Skofield Printers collection, the Western Americana and California collection, the William Wyles collection.
The Arts Library holds approximately 900 titles and other materials relating to artists’ books and includes publications on architecture, sculpture, drawing, painting, prints, decorative arts, artistic photography, and interdisciplinary works on the arts, covering all cultures and time periods. The collection consists of over 200,000 volumes, including more than 110,000 books, journals, videos, microforms, and CD-ROMs as well as 95,000 art exhibition catalogs. Collection strengths include medieval illumination, Northern and Italian Renaissance art, American art and architecture, and Chinese painting and calligraphy.
The California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, also known as CEMA, is a division of the Special Collections Department of the University Libraries at the University of California, Santa Barbara. CEMA is a permanent program that advances scholarship in ethnic studies through its varied collections of primary research materials. The collections represent the cultural, artistic, ethnic, and racial diversity that characterizes the state's population. Its materials are widely used not only by scholars, but also in K-12 classrooms and museum exhibitions.
The Performing Arts Collection in UCSB's Davidson Library has one of the largest collections of historic sound recordings in the country with over 200,000 items including vocal, ethnic, classical, jazz and popular music on disc and cylinder. Manuscript collections include the papers of film composer Bernard Herrmann, singer Lotte Lehmann and autograph manuscripts of other composers including Brahms, Wolf, Milhaud, Castlenuovo-Tedesco and others.
The Music Library, one of the finest of its kind on the West Coast, houses a music collection containing approximately 34,000 books, 37,000 scores in all formats and 50,000 sound recordings, including 6,000 compact discs and includes the Goethe Collection and the Ed Kahn Collection of American Music.
The Henry Eichheim Collection of Musical Instruments one of the leading university collections in the United States, was acquired by the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1982 and consists of over 350 instruments, compositions, travel documents, concert programs, lecture notes, and a large trove of photographs from Henry Eichheim as well as a gamelan collection and the Seymour Oppenheimer Collection of 320 bells, gongs, lithophones, and rattles.
The Visual Resources Collection in the Department of History of Art and Architecture maintains a teaching collection of slides numbering over 380,000.
The University Art Museum has earned an international reputation over the last 30 years for its innovative and culturally diverse exhibitions, catalogues, and interdisciplinary programs. UAM has a distinguished Fine Art Collection of over 8,500 works. The museum is one of the largest repositories of architectural records.
The Architecture & Design Collection in the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara is a growing repository of architectural records containing over 750,000 original drawings as well as specifications, office correspondence, manuscript material, historic photographs, scrapbooks, sketch books and three-dimensional objects (architectural models, fragments, and furniture) representing the work of over 350 designers from 1890 to the present. The ADC ranks in size with the largest repositories of architectural records in the United States including the Architecture, Design and Engineering Collection at the Library of Congress and the Drawings and Archives Collection in the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University.
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