October 2023
Cultura Cura exhibition graphic detail of four prints separated by an orange cross with the words Cultura Cura 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA centered in white
Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self-Help Graphics in LA

UCSB Library invites you to a public reception and panel discussion to celebrate the opening of Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA, a new exhibition featuring prints and ephemera from the Self Help Graphics & Art Collection in the Library’s California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives (CEMA).
Self Help Graphics & Art is a Los Angeles-based organization that fosters the creation and advancement of new art works by Chicana/o and Latinx, and other BIPOC artists through experimental and innovative printmaking techniques and other visual art forms.

5:00 PM Wednesday, October 25
Special Research Collections
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Library Releases New Impact Report
The Library has released its 2022-2023 Impact Report. Learn what we accomplished during the previous academic year.
Discover how the Library seeks to foster campus collaboration, advance open science, support student academic success, and strengthen stewardship and sustainability.
Professor Nelson Lichtenstein
A Fabulous Failure:
The Clinton Presidency
The Library presents Professor Nelson Lichtenstein (History) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Fall 2023.
Lichtenstein will discuss the Clinton Presidency, the transformation of American capitalism, and American labor today.

4:00 PM Tuesday, October 10
Pacific View Room
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Community Over Commercialization
In conjunction with International Open Access Week 2023 (October 23–29), our new Open Access Collection Strategist Angela Chikowero has created a display showcasing UCSB and UC-wide initiatives that support open scholarship.

October 1–31
Paseo
Detail of Día de los Muertos 1979 by Leo Limon from the Cultura Cura exhibition
Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) Altar
The Library presents a Dia de los Muertos altar created by students from UCSB’s Las Maestras Center in conjunction with our new exhibition Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA.
Self Help Graphics developed one of the most popular and longest running Dia de los Muertos events in Los Angeles.

October 25–November 22
Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection, 2nd Floor, Ocean Side
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New Data Literacy Infographic
Our Research Data Services (RDS) team has created a new infographic about how to identify predatory open access publishers.
Visit the RDS website, to discover more Data Literacy infographics and other resources.
Shirley Graves Kennedy
Collection Spotlight: The Shirley Kennedy Papers
The papers of Shirley Kennedy are now available for researchers in the Library's Special Research Collections. Kennedy was an adjunct professor in UCSB's Department of Black Studies and noted civil rights activist in Santa Barbara.
The collection contains materials related to her career as an educator and community activism.