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renowned research university with roots in the liberal arts, UCSB
offers an impressive collection of museums, libraries, and galleries.
Its art museums and galleries display everything from classic
and rare pieces to student creations. Other museums exhibit extensive
collections of plants and insects. For specialized databases and
comprehensive resource collections, visit the University's
Davidson Library.
Galleries
- Gallery 1434
Open to the public weekdays from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. during the school year, this gallery features weekly changing exhibits of undergraduate and graduate student artwork. The public is also invited to weekly art openings that are posted on the Art Studio website.
Inquiries: Department of Art, 805-893-3138
Web Site: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/facilities/gallery/gallery.html
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- Women's Center Gallery
Innovative art, including photographs, woodcuts, quilts, tapestries, and paintings, is on display during the school year. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Fridays.
Inquiries: Women's Center, 805-893-3778
Web Site: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/women%27scenter/
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General
- Alexandria Digital Library Project (ADL)
The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) is a distributed digital library with collections of georeferenced materials. ADL includes the operational library, with various nodes and collections, and the research program through which digital library architectures, gazetteer applications, educational applications, and software components are modeled, prototyped, and evaluated. The data is collected from libraries, academic institutions, private companies, and government agencies for long-term preservation.
Inquiries: Alexandria Digital Library for Spatially Referenced Data, 805-893-7665
Web Site: http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
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- Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER)
CCBER promotes the teaching of diverse undergraduate courses in EEMB, Environmental Studies, and Geology. It also supports faculty, staff, and student research interests by providing field and lab-based resources. In addition, CCBER houses regionally focused collections of terrestrial plants, algae, and vertebrates, as well as an extensive plant anatomy collection. The Center satisfies the University's obligation to provide stewardship of campus lands, rich in biodiversity. Through the ecological restoration program, the Center encourages land restoration on and near campus. The Kids in Nature outreach program fulfills K-12 educational goals, while staff and faculty curators provide scientific information and advice to private entities. The union of these elements into CCBER creates a campus facility dedicated to education, research, and outreach related to regional biological diversity and restoration.http://ccber.lifesci.ucsb.eduhttp://ccber.lifesci.ucsb.edu
Inquiries: Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, 805-893-2401
Web Site: http://ccber.lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Libraries
- Arts Library
TThe Arts Library houses scholarly collections of over 300,000 volumes on art, architecture, and music, and provides access to dozens of electronic information resources. The music collection contains over 87,000 books and music scores, as well as periodicals, videos, microforms, and over 35,000 sound recordings. The recordings (CDs, LPs, and tapes) are available for in-library listening; videos (VHS and DVD) may be viewed in one of two small-group viewing rooms. Also available for on-campus listening are five online audio databases that comprise thousands of albums of classical, jazz, and traditional music. The art collection contains over 210,000 books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, artists' books, catalogues raisonné and non-book materials including videos, cd/roms, and extensive holdings of microforms. Available on-campus only is access to thousands of art images, articles, reference works and other scholarly electronic databases. Specialized subject assistance can be found at the Art Library's web page.
Inquiries: Arts Library, 805-893-2850
Web Site: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/arts
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- Davidson Library
UCSB's Davidson Library's extensive resources include specialized databases, rare collections, map rooms, government publications, and much more. Community members can obtain borrowing privileges by purchasing a library card. Some specialized services in the Map and Imagery Lab are available to residents and businesses on a fee basis.
Inquiries: Davidson Library, 805-893-2478
Web Site: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/
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- Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity seeks to promote awareness and address the concerns of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and ally community members. The Resource Center provides workshops, discussion groups, and library resources for the University and local community.
Inquiries: Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, 805-893-5847
Web Site: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/sgd/
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Museums
- Art Museum Public Programs
The University Art Museum offers interactive guided visits of its permanent collections and special exhibitions to students of all levels. Visits are led by specially trained UCSB student docents and are enhanced by hands-on activities, classroom visits and teacher workshops. Outreach programs, including family events and community collaborations, seek to inspire learning through the arts. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 12 - 5 p.m., (closed Monday, Tuesday and major holidays.) Admission is free.
Inquiries: University Art Museum, 805-893-7564
Web Site: http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/education.html
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- Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
The Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CBER), formerly the Museum of Systematics and Ecology (MSE), houses over 100,000 plant and animal specimens in the Herbarium, Vertebrate, Invertebrate Collections and Special Collections. We provide opportunities for K-12 academic preparation through our highly regarded Kids in Nature program and special community education programs including a Monday night Restoration Ecology seminar during the academic year. Public service and professional advising help the Center to fulfill its overall mission of increasing understanding of and preserving biodiversity, and training and educating future scientists to carry out these important activities. We offer occasional tours of the animal, plant and special collections and the restored natural areas we manage on the UCSB campus. Please phone 893-2401 for tour information.
Inquiries: Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, 805-893-2401
Web Site: http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~mseweb/collections/collections.html
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- University Art Museum
The University Art Museum (UAM) presents throughout the year a wide variety of contemporary, historical, and global art exhibitions of international stature, as well as selections from its own permanent collection of over 8,500 fine artworks. Please visit the website or call the hotline for updated information on current exhibitions. Docent-led tours can be arranged by calling 805-893-8266. Museum hours are Wednesdays-Sundays, 12-5 p.m. Admission to the museum is free. (Park in lots 23 or 3.)
Inquiries: University Art Museum, 805-893-7564
Web Site: http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/exhibitions_front_page.html
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- University Art Museum School Programs
The University Art Museum offers guided visits of its permanent collection galleries and special changing exhibitions to elementary, secondary, high school and university students, as well as after school programs and summer camps. Upon request, tours are available Wednesday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The UAM also provides a special elementary school program that focuses on the primary elements of art, ranging from color, shape and texture to perspective, pattern and movement. smART: Visual Literacy Tours engage students through interactive viewing and discussion and hands-on activities.
Inquiries: University Art Museum, 805-893-8266
Web Site: http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/education.html
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