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  1. Collection

    Live Well, Be Well

    • Live Well, Be Well podcast episodes present candid information about all things wellness! Their goal is to inspire listeners, to help them feel connected, and to discover new ways to live their best life.
    • Date: 2020-2021
  2. Collection

    Living Salk Institute Project Video Collection

    • David Chapin and Zeynep Turan (architects in the Ph.D. program in Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center, City University of New York) 2004 video research project entitled, "The Living Salk Institute."
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 2004-2005
  3. Collection

    Lou Rowan Papers: Digital selections

    • Email and correspondence from the papers of writer Lou Rowan.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1996-2018
  4. Collection

    Lyn Hejinian Papers: Selections

    • Selected reformatted materials from the Lyn Hejinian Papers.
    • Date: 1974-2010
  5. Collection

    Marquis McDonald Photographs

    • Photographs by Marquis McDonald during a 1949-1950 overland trip down the Baja California Peninsula.
    • Date: 1949-1950
  6. Collection

    Meet the Scientist Lecture Recordings

    • Sound recordings and a small selection of typed presentations from a science lecture series sponsored by the Theatre and Arts Foundation of San Diego County.
    • Date: 1958-1963
  7. Collection

    Mexican Broadsides

    • This collection comprises broadsides (single and double-sided, one-sheet documents) produced in Mexico between the early 1600s and 1899.
    • Date: Early 1600s to 1899
  8. Collection

    Middlebrook Photographs of San Diego & Arizona Railway Locomotives

    • Images of locomotives, trains, and sections of track from the San Diego & Arizona and San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway companies.
    • Date: 1910-1948
  9. Collection

    Mikhail V. Propp Negatives

    • Photographic negatives taken by Russian marine biologist Mikhail V. Propp, documenting a Soviet Antarctic expedition (1965-1966) at Mirny Observatory, Antarctica.
    • Date: 1965-1966
  10. Collection

    Millerd Family Documents

    • Documents of the Millerd family, 1740-1900, including records that document birth and death dates for family members, debts, military service, and a set of manuscript sermons attributed to Squire Millerd.
    • Date: 1740-1900
  11. Collection

    Milo Woodbridge Williams Photographs

    • Photographs from the collection of Milo Woodbridge Williams, a professional photographer who attended the Scripps Institution of Oceanography as a graduate student between 1947 and 1948.
    • Date: between 1936 and 1980
  12. Collection

    Music Collection

    • Collection of Music-related materials from UC San Diego students and faculty, as well as prominent figures of the contemporary music scene in Southern California.
    • Date: 1950 -
  13. Collection

    New Rosario Silver Mining Company Records

    • Records of the New Rosario Silver Mining Company, including business correspondence, articles of agreement, receipts, and reports meant to entice potential stockholders. Includes articles of agreement for other ventures, including the Morro da Gloria Gold Mining Company.
    • Date: between 1858 and 1870
  14. Collection

    New Writing Series: Recordings

    • Recordings of readings from the UC San Diego New Writings Series.
    • Date: 1972 - Present
  15. Collection

    Norma Cole Papers: Selections

    • Digital and digitized selections from the papers of Norma Cole, San Francisco based poet, painter, translator and educator.
    • Date: circa 1985-2014
  16. Collection

    Norman Spencer Photographs

    • Norman A. Spencer, Ph.D., professor at SUNY, Nassau, documents artists, writers, directors, actors and other notable personalities in the underground and independent Chinese film and art scenes. His photographs were taken between the years 1999-2019.
    • Date: 1999-2019
  17. Collection

    North Korean Propaganda Posters

    • Reproductions of North Korean propaganda posters.
    • Date: 1985-2002
  18. Collection

    Oceania

    • Photographs, films and dissertations, documenting aspects of the cultures and peoples of the Pacific Islands, with a strong emphasis on Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
    • Date: 1919-1989
  19. Collection

    Pablo Macedo Collection of Mexican Notarial, Mining and Colonial Documents

    • Mexican colonial documents written in Spanish, relating to land tenure, legal matters and mining interests in the Itzmiquilpa region of Mexico.
    • Date: 1600-1908
  20. Collection

    Pacific Basin Nautical Charts

    • Charts of the Pacific Ocean
    • Date: circa 1910-1960
  21. Collection

    Papua New Guinea Highlands Dissertations

    • Dissertations and theses, written between 1946 and 2001, documenting social life, customs, history and other topics pertaining to the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea.
    • Date: 1946-2001
  22. Collection

    Papua New Guinea Patrol Reports

    • Reports from government patrols are a major source of primary information on Papua New Guinea’s colonial-era history.  Patrol officers and other officials wrote detailed documents reporting on all aspects of the work carried out by the patrols.  The reports give first-hand accounts on many topics, from first contact with remote Highland villages, to census counts, tax collection, health care, justice, labor recruiting, plantations, missionaries, anthropological descriptions, tribal warfare, languages, and more.  The reports in this collection date primarily from the post-World War II era of Papua New Guinea, up through 1975, when PNG gained independence from Australia; a few pre-War reports are also included.
    • Date: 1912-1976
  23. Collection

    Paul Blackburn Audio Collection

    • A collection of sound recordings featuring poetry readings, conversations, lectures, and taped correspondence recorded by Paul Blackburn to create an oral history of the New York poetry scene between 1960 and 1971.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1960-1971
  24. Collection

    Paul Pickowicz Collection

    • Slides and documents contributed by Paul Pickowicz, member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) Friendship Delegation that traveled to China in 1971.
    • Date: 1971 - 1972
  25. Collection

    Pauline Oliveros Papers

    • Papers of Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016), American experimental musician, composer and key figure in the development of contemporary electronic music.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1937-1983
  26. Collection

    Peter Yates Sound Recording Collection

    • Peter Yates was an important radio personality and concert presenter in the Los Angeles avant-garde music scene from 1939 through the mid-1960s.  The collection consists of concerts, interviews with composers, lectures by Yates, and radio broadcasts.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1939 - mid 1960's
  27. Collection

    Peveril Meigs Baja California Research Materials

    • Photographs, journals, and an album documenting Peveril Meigs's field research in northern Baja California, Mexico, between 1925 and 1936.
    • Date: between 1925 and 1936
  28. Collection

    Posters of the Chinese Independent Film Festivals

    • Posters from Chinese independent film festivals from 2004 to 2016.
    • Date: 2004-2016
  29. Collection

    Pueblos Yucatecos

    • Audio Interviews, Transcriptions, and Photographs related to life in 5 rural communities in the state of Yucatan Mexico between the early 20th and early 21st centuries
    • Date: September 2017-
  30. Collection

    Return To Learn Town Hall Meetings

    • The UC San Diego’s Return to Learn Town Hall meetings began in July 2020, as part of the Return to Learn program, which started in May 2020 as a strategic response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • Date: 2020-2022
  31. Collection

    Richard Dering Letters

    • Letters from Richard Dering, which provide a detailed account of his activities and travels in Sonora, Baja California, the islands of the Gulf of California, and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. The letters are primarily written from Isla Elide, Georges Island, Guaymas, Magdalena Bay, and San Francisco.
    • Date: 1858-1879
  32. Collection

    Robert Entenmann Collection

    • Robert Entenmann’s travel notes and government documents related to his 1972 visit to China.
    • Date: 1972
  33. Collection

    Robert Erickson Sound Recording Collection

    • Robert Erickson was a co-founder of the UCSD Music Department.  This collection includes his sound recordings of his own works, much of it recorded under his direction, also rare or unique recordings of particular interest to him, from ethnic music to works and lectures by his contemporaries and some student projects.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1947 to 1984
  34. Collection

    Robert Glasheen Photographs

    • Photographs of University of California, San Diego faculty, staff, campus life, buildings, and events.
    • Date: 1964-1986
  35. Collection

    Robert Mosher UC San Diego Architectural Image Collection

    • The Robert Mosher collection includes photographs of the interior and exterior of architectural structures as well as plans, drawings, elevations, models, studies, and materials samples of UC San Diego buildings and spaces. Development and master plans are also included. Most of the buildings and structures in this collection were designed by Robert Mosher but there are some images of UC San Diego structures that were designed by other architectural firms.
    • Date: 1961-1998
  36. Collection

    Robert Peters Papers: Selections

    • Sound recordings of poetry readings and lectures from the papers of poet Robert Peters.
    • Date: 1970-2009
  37. Collection

    Robert S. Arthur Slides and Survival Charts

    • Slides and World War II-era cloth survival charts from the collection of physical oceanographer Robert S. Arthur.
    • Date: 1943-1973
  38. Collection

    Roger M. Keesing Collection

    • Photographs and sound recordings taken by anthropologist Roger M. Keesing during field research with the Kwaio people of Malaita, Solomon Islands.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1963-1989
  39. Collection

    Roger Revelle Papers

    • A selection of photographs and slides from the Roger Revelle Papers, including portraits and images documenting scientific expeditions and Scripps Institution of Oceanography colleagues.
    • Date: 1936-1976
  40. Collection

    Roger Reynolds Ping Collection

    • Ping is a 1968 multimedia work by Roger Reynolds on a text by Samuel Beckett. This collection is an illustrative portion of the components and related documentation, including compositional sketches and diagrams, films, interviews with Reynolds, and photographs from both the 1968 and 2011 performances at UCSD.
  41. Collection

    Roy Rappaport Collection

    • Photographs taken by anthropologist Roy A. Rappaport during fieldwork with the Tsembaga Maring people of Madang Province in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The images document aspects of Maring culture.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1960-1963
  42. Collection

    Sam Hinton Papers

    • Images from the University of California Division of War Research, Sam Hinton’s caricatures and sketches of SIO faculty, and original drawings of ocean plants and animals.
    • Date: 1937-2006
  43. Collection

    San Diego History

    • Selected materials documenting San Diego county, digitized from original postcards, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets and other materials held by UC San Diego Library.
    • Date: circa 1800-1950
  44. Collection

    San Diego History Center Oral Histories

    • The San Diego Historical Society owns dozens of oral histories that document the rise and decline of the California fishing industry. Over 50 oral history transcripts on topics of popular interest such as tuna fishing, lobster harvesting, agar processing, and whaling, have been made available here.
    • Date: 1957-1999
  45. Collection

    San Diego History Center Photographs

    • Over 3,000 images from the San Diego History Center that document the rise and decline of the California fishing industry. These historical photographs from the 1870s to the 1980s represent the work of many important San Diego photographers.
    • Date: 1880-1980
  46. Collection

    San Diego Technology Archive Oral Histories

    • The San Diego Technology Archive (SDTA), an initiative of the UC San Diego Library, documents the history, formation, and evolution of the companies that formed the San Diego region's high-tech cluster, beginning in 1965.
    • Date: 1996-
  47. Collection

    Scientific Voyages & Expedition Reports

    • This collection contains 90 oceanographic voyages and scientific expedition reports from various countries and institution from around the world dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. They were collected by the former Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1881-1971
  48. Collection

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography Lantern Slide Collection

    • A selection of slides from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Lantern Slide Collection, including images of local cliffs and beaches, the development of the campus, scientists, and research vessels.
    • Date: 1908-1940
  49. Collection

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography Letters, Clippings, Ships' Logs

    • Images of historical documents about Scripps expeditions.
    • Date: 1873-1987
  50. Collection

    Selected Newsreels

    • Yearly highlights including, but limited to major national and international news, important events and major public figures.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 1941-1969
  51. Collection

    SIO Archive Film Collection

    • This collection contains films documenting Scripps Institution of Oceanography research, expeditions, and campus history. The collection also includes training and introductory science films created by the U.S. Navy.
    • Date: 1940-1983
  52. Collection

    SIO Centennial Oral Histories

    • A collection of sound recordings and transcripts of interviews with six Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists, conducted for the SIO Centennial Oral History Project.
    • Date: 1998-2002
  53. Collection

    SIO Photographic Laboratory Collection: Selections

    • The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Photographic Laboratory was established in 1949 to provide photographic services to the SIO community. Subjects included aerial views of La Jolla and the Scripps campus, artifacts, campus buildings and events, faculty and staff at work, marine specimens, research ships, and scientific instruments.
    • Date: 1905-2003
  54. Collection

    SIO Photographs Collection

    • A diverse assortment of photographic images acquired by the former SIO Archives and collated into one collection. Images include SIO staff and faculty, the campus, and scientific expeditions.
    • Date: between 1900 and 2006
  55. Collection

    Slab City

    • Interviews with residents, various community activities (swap meets, holiday parties etc.) of the Sonoran Desert community of Slab City (Imperial County, California).
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1986-1997
  56. Collection

    Social Sciences Data Collection

    • The Social Sciences Data Collection includes an assortment of numeric and textual datasets collected by the Library to support the research and learning needs of UC San Diego students, staff, and academics. Some datasets are open access, while others are licensed by the Library and restricted to UC San Diego IP addresses.
    • Access: Some items restricted
  57. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Children's Drawings

    • A collection of over 600 drawings made during the Spanish Civil War by Spanish school children, both in Spain and in refugee centers in France, rendered in pencil, crayon, ink, and watercolor.
    • Date: circa 1938
  58. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Collection

    • Collection of propaganda posters, newspaper photographs, postcards, drawings made by Spanish children in colonias, and more.
    • Date: 1936-1940
  59. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Communist Ephemera

    • Ephemera printed by the Communist Party of Spain, Partido Comunista de España (PCE), or groups affiliated with the PCE in Madrid during the years of the Spanish Civil War.
    • Date: circa 1936-1939
  60. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Memory Project

    • Audiovisual testimonies of witnesses and victims of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist repression
    • Date: between 2008 and 2010
  61. Collection

    Spanish Civil War News Photos

    • Photographs, taken for various news agencies, documenting events during the Spanish Civil War.
    • Date: 1936-1940
  62. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Postage Stamps

    • Collection of different adhesive stamps issued by a variety of governmental and non-governmental organizations throughout Republican Spain.
    • Date: 1936-1939
  63. Collection

    Spanish Civil War Posters

    • Propaganda posters produced during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) by a variety of Spanish political parties and labor organizations.
    • Date: 1936-1940
  64. Collection

    Stan Phillips Poetry Project Recordings Collection

    • Spoken word poetry sound recordings featuring James Broughton, Jess Collins, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, and Louis Zukofsky. Organized and edited by Stan Phillips.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1962
  65. Collection

    Stephen Leavitt Recordings

    • Field recordings created by American anthropologist Stephen Leavitt include interviews and events related to the ethnography of the Bumbita Arapesh people of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1984-1989
  66. Collection

    Stephen MacKinnon Collection

    • Slides and documents contributed by Stephen MacKinnon, member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) Friendship Delegation that traveled to China in 1972.
    • Date: 1972
  67. Collection

    Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana

    • The Turner Collection comprises more than 300 items that help document the lives and contributions of American Blacks, largely through original photographic images.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1850-1979
  68. Collection

    Stuart Collection Photographs

    • Photographs and design drawings of the site-specific public sculptures in the UC San Diego Stuart Collection.
    • Date: 1981 - 2015
  69. Collection

    Stuart Collection Records: Selections

    • Video and audio recordings of the UC San Diego Stuart Collection site-specific public sculptures and interviews with the artists.
    • Date: 1982 - 2006
  70. Collection

    Susan Howe Radio Program Sound Recordings

    • Sound recordings from poet Susan Howe's radio show, Poetry, originally broadcast on WBAI New York.
    • Date: 1965, 1971-1981
  71. Collection

    Swope Family Correspondence

    • Letters written by Charles Byron Swope to his wife Gretchen while he was stationed at Fort McDowell on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, and other family correspondence.
    • Date: 1917-1918
  72. Collection

    Sylvester M. Lambert Photographs

    • Photographs of Pacific Islanders taken by American physician Sylvester Maxwell Lambert. Many images taken in Papua New Guinea, Solomn Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1919-1939
  73. Collection

    Taiwanese American Archives' Photo Albums

    • The Taiwanese American Archives' Photo Albums  include documents and images covering a broad range of topics including sports, news events, concerts, festivals and conferences spanning the 1940s to the present decade.
    • Date: 2014 to 2021
  74. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive

    • The UC San Diego Library created a “living archive” as an alternative way to highlight awareness, provide a space for dialogue, preserve and document the events related to student activism at UC San Diego.
    • Date: 1960-2017
  75. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: Course Curriculum and Events

    • The Tell Us How UC It project has consisted of a number of course collaborations from workshops to one-shot classes.
    • Date: 2017
  76. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: Exhibit 2017

    • Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive debuted with a physical exhibit and a panel on student activism on February 1, 2017. The exhibit included history, student perspectives, and real-time feedback, all of which are now part of the collection.
    • Date: February 2017 to May 2017
  77. Collection

    Tell Us How UC It: History of Student Activism Timeline

    • The Tell Us How UC It: History of Student Activism Timeline presents events and incidents from UC San Diego’s history that affected the campus climate for students in such a way that they were compelled to act or react.
    • Date: 1960-2016
  78. Collection

    The Missions of Alta California

    • Albumen photographs of California missions taken by William Henry Jackson.
    • Date: 1885-1890
  79. Collection

    Theodore Schwartz Recordings

    • A collection of sound and video recordings from Theodore Schwartz, Melanesian anthropologist, UC San Diego Professor and specialist on the Manus people of Papua New Guinea. Includes interviews, ceremonies, lectures, songs and linguistic studies relating to his expeditions to the Admiralty Islands.
    • Access: Restricted View
    • Date: 1953 - 1998
  80. Collection

    Thurgood Marshall College. Office of the Provost Records

    • Photographs documenting UC San Diego's Thurgood Marshall College participation in campus and San Diego community events, provost office staff, and college programs.
    • Date: 1965-2000
  81. Collection

    Tijuana Photograph Postcard Collection

    • A small collection of postcards documenting tourism in Tijuana, Mexico. The majority depict tourists in automobiles near the U.S.-Mexico border, including many Panama California Exposition visitors from the San Diego area in 1915.
    • Date: between 1907 and 1960
  82. Collection

    Topolobampo Collection

    • Business records and promotional materials by Albert Kimsey Owen, related to the colony and railroad enterprise established on Topolobampo Bay, Sinaloa, Mexico between 1871 and 1910.
    • Date: 1872 to 1910
  83. Collection

    Tracings: A Newsletter of the University Library - University of California, San Diego

    • Internal newsletter published by the UC San Diego Library every week; informing staff, students, and faculty on various campus events.
    • Date: 1991-1999
  84. Collection

    Travelogue Collection

    • Collection of home movies and travel films shot mainly in the United States. Includes extensive footage of Europe and Asia as well.
    • Date: 1936-1980
  85. Collection

    Triton Tools and Tidbits

    • Triton Tools & Tidbits is a podcast that is focused on discussing topics to engage and enrich student life and education. Produced by the UC San Diego Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
    • Date: 2020-2021
  86. Collection

    Tritoncast

    • Tritoncast is the podcast for UC San Diego Athletics.
    • Date: 2020-2023
  87. Collection

    UC San Diego Campus Notices and Flyers

    • Campus Notices and Flyers distributed information to a large segment of the campus community.
    • Date: 1993-2022
  88. Collection

    UC San Diego Department of Music Concert Archive

    • UCSD Department of Music recordings from 1967-2006 of degree-required concerts, faculty concerts, most class concerts, and other selected events.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
  89. Collection

    UC San Diego General Catalog

    • Selected volumes of the General Catalog or Course Catalog containing course descriptions, degree requirements and descriptions for colleges, departments, and schools offered by the University of California, San Diego.
    • Date: 1961 to 2011
  90. Collection

    UC San Diego History

    • Photographs, student newspapers, oral histories, campus news releases, news clippings, and publications that document the development and history of the campus.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: 1956-
  91. Collection

    UC San Diego LGBT Campus Historical Collection

    • The UC San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Historical Collection documents the experiences of LGBTQIA+ community at UC San Diego, and reflects the activities and interests of students, staff, faculty, and alumni.
    • Date: 1977-2020
  92. Collection

    UC San Diego LGBT Resource Center Student Organizations Records

    • The LGBT Resource Center Student Organizations records documents the event and outreach activities of the student organizations and community groups affiliated with the LGBT Resource Center at UC San Diego.
    • Access: Some items restricted
    • Date: circa 2000-2013
  93. Collection

    UC San Diego Women's Resource Center Newsletter

    • Weekly e-newsletter produced by the Women's Center at UC San Diego documenting outreach, events, and updates from the center and its affiliates.
    • Date: 2012-
  94. Collection

    UCSD Audio Visual Theses and Dissertations

    • A subset of the dissertations produced by students at UC San Diego which contain audio and visual components.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: between 1971 and 2009
  95. Collection

    UCSD Guardian

    • Primary student newspaper of UCSD campus. Includes earlier versions of the Guardian, such as the Triton Times and special issues titled Hiatus.
    • Date: 1967-
  96. Collection

    UCSD Health Sciences Communications Public Relations Materials

    • The Health Sciences Communications Public Relations Materials records include news releases, features, and photographs produced by the office.
    • Date: 1961-2015
  97. Collection

    UCSD Independent Study Project (ISP)

    • Independent School of Medicine Project from the UCSD School of Medicine.
    • Access: Restricted to UC San Diego use only
    • Date: 2011-
  98. Collection

    UCSD Oral Histories

    • Oral history interviews, with various persons involved with the establishment and development of the UC San Diego, and the development of various campus academic programs.
    • Date: 1984-1999
  99. Collection

    UCSD Student Newspapers

    • Scans of students newspapers, other than the UCSD Guardian. Includes Black Voices, California Review, New Indicator, Revellations, Third World, and Ujima, among others.
    • Date: 1960-
  100. Collection

    University Art Gallery Closure Events, 2016

    • Images and events related to the threatened closure of the University Art Gallery in 2016.
    • Date: 2016