November 2023
2024 UCSB Reads book Your Brain On Art How the Arts Transform Us in front of the Library
UCSB Reads 2024 Book Selection Announced

UCSB Library and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor are pleased to announce the selection of the 2024 UCSB Reads book, Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. The interdisciplinary book is a journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, a new and rapidly expanding field of research at the intersection of psychological aesthetics, biological mechanisms, and human evolution.

Your Brain on Art demonstrates how our brains and bodies transform in profound ways when we participate in the arts, even for as little as 45 minutes, and how this knowledge can improve health and build stronger communities.

Susan Magsamen is the founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University. Ivy Ross is the Vice President of Design for hardware product area at Google.
A graphic arrangement of phonograph record and record player
The Redoubtable Disc Record - And Why the Format Refuses to Die
Today, the disc record is the only physical audio format with increasing sales. Why is this?

A panel of industry and audio experts explores the 130-year history of the disc record and explains why – despite frequent predictions of its demise – the format’s popularity continues to grow.

5:30 PM Thursday, November 2
In person and online
Fossil Free UC student activists celebrating having their voices heard at a Board of Regents meeting
New Exhibition: Fossil Free UC
The Library presents a new exhibition documenting the student-led Fossil Free UC campaign with materials held by our Special Research Collections.

Between 2012 and 2019, this UC-wide grassroots campaign successfully pressured the university to divest faculty and staff retirement funds from oil company shares.

November 13, 2023–June 28, 2024
Ocean Gallery
Professor Nelson Lichtenstein speaking at his Pacific Views lecture
In the Media: Pacific Views Lecture
Professor Nelson Lichtenstein (History) was interviewed by KCSB last month about his Pacific Views lecture at the Library and his new book A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism.
Illustration of a grid of items around a circle R a TM and a SM
Trademarks Workshop
The Library presents a workshop about trademarks. Attendees will learn about the role of trademarks in business, the different kinds of trademarks that exist, what makes a strong trademark, and how to get a trademark.

12:00 PM Wednesday, November 29
Instruction & Training 1312
Research Data Services infographic detail featuring an icon of a gear labeled API
Web APIs Infographic
Our Research Data Services (RDS) team has created a new infographic about using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for academic research.

Visit the RDS website, to discover more Data Literacy Series infographics and other resources.
Shifra Goldman (right) interviewing artist David Siqueiros
In the Media: The Shifra Goldman Papers
"América Tropical: The Martyr Mural of Siqueiros," a documentary about Mexican social realist painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, premiered on PBS in October and will be screened on November 9, 5:30 PM, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

The documentary features materials from the Library's Shifra Goldman Papers. Goldman was a groundbreaking Latin American and Latino art historian who launched a campaign in 1968 to preserve Siqueiros' landmark mural "América Tropical" in Los Angeles.
Cutting rainbow paper for making a button in the Makerspace
Coming Soon:
UCSB Makerspace
The Library is opening a Makerspace for UCSB students, faculty and staff in Winter Quarter 2024.

The UCSB Makerspace is an interdisciplinary experiential learning environment that fosters problem-solving, innovation, and risk-taking. Users will have access to high-quality fabrication tools, in-depth instruction, and peer support on rapid prototyping and iterative design processes.