From May 4– July 27, join UCLA Library, The Claremont Colleges Library (@honnoldlibrary ) and Columbia University Libraries for a weekly webinar series about the historical and cultural significance of Ming manuscript and book materials.
This project was made possible in part by an award from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
RSVP at go.library.ucla.edu/mingseries
Video description:
A UCLA Library student employee walks through an aisle in the stacks outside the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library while talking into a small microphone. The student grabs a red book from a shelf and puts it back as she continues to walk.
The video cuts to an open Ming dynasty printed work with colorful images and Chinese characters that slowly pans from left to right across the pages. The image fades out to the student walking through the stacks as she continues to talk into the microphone.
The video cuts again to a series of Ming dynasty prints with images of a bird, deity figure, booksellers and Chinese characters slowly panning from left to right as the images fade from one to the next. The video cuts back to the student walking through the stacks speaking into the microphone.
📚 Happy Preservation Week! UCLA Library Preservation & Conservation is highlighting the Eiko Ishioka papers, donated to the library in 2014.
🪡 Eiko Ishioka (1938–2012) created iconic designs for film, music, theater and even sports, including uniforms for the Houston Rockets and the 2002 Winter and 2008 Summer Olympics. The collection documents her career through sketches, photographs, audiovisual materials and more.
📽️ Maile Chung, audiovisual project conservator, is working with colleagues, including Miki Bulos, Library Special Collections Performing Arts curator and Yasmin Dessem, head of audiovisual preservation, to collaborate with the donor in prioritizing audiovisual materials for digitization and access.
📩 Contact UCLA Library Special Collections at [email protected] to request materials or learn more.
Shot and edited by: Gabz Norte @nativekidwithacamera
Video description:
Audiovisual project conservator Maile Chung introduces herself in Japanese and English in the UCLA Library Preservation & Conservation Lab. As she discusses designer Eiko Ishioka’s work, close-up shots show materials from the collection, including paper items and audiovisual media, as Maile handles and organizes them. She concludes by thanking the audience in Japanese.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive (@uclaftvarchive ), a unit of UCLA Library, will present the 22nd edition of its biennial UCLA Festival of Preservation, running Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31 at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum (@hammer_museum ).
Showcasing the Archive’s latest preservation and restoration work, the festival features a diverse lineup of film and television, ranging from silent-era gems to mid-century television rarities to 1990s independent productions.
Read the full announcement at the link in bio
🔎 The Center for Primary Research Training (CFPRT) is a UCLA Library Special Collections program designed to equip emerging scholars with skills to use primary sources effectively. The center pairs graduate students with projects relevant to their academic expertise to make the Library’s materials more widely discoverable.
🪈 CFPRT processing scholar Sadie Baldwin traces the connection between jazz, union history and civil rights in Los Angeles through the Buddy Collette papers and American Federation of Musicians Local 767 records.
📜 “As an emerging archivist with a love for music and labor history, working with these collections has been an invaluable learning experience, said Baldwin. “They have deepened my appreciation for the many forms of care required to bring Collette’s materials and the AFM Local 767 records into clearer view.”
🔗 Read more at the link in bio or ucla.in/4eKzt70
🎨 This Thursday, May 14, join UCLA Library Special Collections to explore materials that illustrate how design thinking has been applied across disciplines to solve creative challenges.
🔗 Learn more at the link in bio.
📸 UCLA Library Special Collections
- Assorted drawings, Eiko Ishioka papers (1955-2012)
- "Eco's Life Story,” Eiko Ishioka papers (1955-2012)
- Water-color storyboards from “Valley of the Dolls” (1960), Mark Robson papers (1968)
- Drawings from “Bram Stoker’s Dracula (circa 1992), Eiko Ishioka papers (1955-2012)
- Assorted materials, Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee records (1978-1984)
Video description:
The video opens on a UCLA blue background with animated captions as a UCLA Library student employee speaks. It then fades to an image of students viewing materials in UCLA Library Special Collections. It transitions to a top-down view of materials from “Dracula” (1992) designed by Eiko Ishioka. A slide transition introduces a dark blue background with overlays of Ishioka’s graphic illustrations, followed by a storyboard from “Valley of the Dolls” (1962).
The video then shows costume design sketches for “Dracula” (1992), before zooming out to reveal fashion design sketches created for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. It concludes with a slide transition to a dark blue screen with animated captions.
🎶 UCLA Library has announced the 2026 Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music grantees. Eight faculty and student music projects will receive between $1,000 and $3,500 to support new compositions, performances, interdisciplinary collaborations and community centered work.
From new operas and jazz commissions to experimental collaborations and conversations focused on music, ecology and community, these projects highlight the range of contemporary music-making at UCLA.
Read the full announcement at the link in bio or ucla.in/4uBU4z5
Bruins! Learn how to put all the elements of your research project into a manageable plan at our final Cornerstone Research Workshop of the spring quarter.
🔹Thursday, May 7
🔹4-5pm
🔹Zoom: bit.ly/urcworkshops
#BruinResearch #BruinCreativity #ResearchPowersProgress
📽️ Led by project manager Joseph Gallucci in collaboration with Yasmin Dessem, head of audiovisual preservation, UCLA Library Preservation & Conservation’s Audiovisual Survey has now documented over 100,000 items, building a comprehensive inventory of audiovisual materials across Library Special Collections.
💾 “In order to take care of an institution’s collections, it’s first necessary to know exactly what they hold. And in the case of an institution like UCLA Library, whose Special Collections span more than 100 years, it is a more daunting and complicated undertaking than it might initially appear.”
🔗 Read more about the process at the link in bio
📚 Nicole Alvarado, book and paper conservator at UCLA Library Preservation & Conservation, has treated damaged books from the Tule Lake Japanese Language Library Collection, stewarded by the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library.
📓 “As one might imagine, these books can tell quite the story. Many came to Tule Lake as personal possessions brought by incarcerated Japanese Americans. Given the restrictions on what could be brought into the camps, these books would have been invaluable to the communities formed there.”
Many books were repaired with limited materials while in use at Tule Lake during World War II. Today, these repairs are being preserved as part of each book’s history.
🔗 Read more at the link in bio
From May 4–July 27, UCLA Library is partnering with The Claremont Colleges Library @honnoldlibrary and Columbia University Libraries to host a weekly webinar series about the historical and cultural significance of Ming manuscript and book materials.
Hear from leading North American and Chinese scholars as they explore cross-cultural perspectives about the history and material culture of Ming books and manuscripts and draw on scholarship to discuss teaching with primary sources.
Topics range from Buddhist texts to color woodblock prints and movable-type printing. Programs will be delivered in either English or Chinese with live, simultaneous English translation.
This project was made possible in part by an award from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
View the weekly schedule and RSVP: go.library.ucla.edu/mingseries or link in bio
The @chicanostudiesucla hosted by Xaviera Flores was everything. The work that takes place with community folks is audacious — to maintain the history and remind us all of the role student activists and organizers played in creating the center —was inspiring! The collections there 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️ Project STAND x UCLA Residency 2026
🐻📚 Today is Bruin Giving Day!
Support UCLA Library and help expand access to resources and inspiration for Bruins across all disciplines.
Every gift counts 💙 Donate by 9 p.m. on April 29 at the link in bio.
