June 2025

Colorful graphic of the Library Award for Undergraduate Research winners

2025 Library Award for Undergraduate Research

Six UCSB undergraduate students were recognized with the 7th annual Library Award for Undergraduate Research (LAUR) for producing creative and scholarly works that made expert and sophisticated use of the Library's collections, resources and services.

The 2025 award was generously supported by a gift from Dr. Jenny Cook-Gumperz, faculty emerita.

Get to Know the Winners

A photograph of a wedding between a man in a black tuxedo and a woman in a white wedding dress

New Exhibition:

Retratos y Relatos

“Retratos y Relatos: Escritura creativa y exploración identitaria” (“Portraits and Stories: Creative Writing and Identity Exploration”) celebrates literary creativity as a pedagogical tool in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.

Now through September 12

Learning Commons (1st Floor, Mountain Side)

Learn More About the Exhibition

Enrico Caruso Jr as Enrico Baroni in the film La Buenaventura

New Opera Archive at UCSB

The Library has received the Enrico Caruso Jr. Collection, a trove of rare recordings, manuscripts, photographs and ephemera

related to legendary Italian tenor Enrico Caruso and his son Enrico Caruso Jr.

The collection was gifted by Andrew Farkas, a distinguished librarian and scholar of the genre.

Learn More About the Collection

In the Media:

Audio Talks Podcast

David Seubert, the Library's Performing Arts Curator, was recently interviewed about the fragile future of audio archives by the Audio Talks podcast.

Listen Now

Bob Nieder invites the viewer on a Gen Z-scripted library tour

Library Receives Four PR/Marketing Awards

The Association of Research Libraries awarded the 2025 ARLIES Award for Best Publicity/Marketing Film to UCSB Library.

The American Library Association awarded three 2025 PR Xchange Awards to UCSB Library in the categories:

Advocacy/Fundraising/Annual Reports/Strategic Plans
External Communications
Special Events

Learn More About the ARLIES Award

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