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The American Revolution began today in 1775. KUSC just played this in honor of the 249th anniversary.

Liberty Fanfare | John Williams' Celebration of the Statue of Liberty The United States Army Field Band performs Liberty Fanfare live under the direction of Lt. Col. Domingos Robinson. This piece was written by John Williams fo...

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Talk about "non-circulating"! 😊

The largest surviving chained library in the world is at Hereford Cathedral in the UK, where all the books are still kept under lock and key in their original chains. It has been rebuilt in its original arrangement, exactly as it had been from 1611 to 1841.

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“I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.”
-Ray Bradbury

Happy National Library Day!

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/book-bans-censorship-librarian-challenges/673398/

The Librarians Are Not Okay “​​I’ve been called a pe*****le. I’ve been called a groomer. I’ve been called a Communist pornographer.”

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Amazing!

The Klencke Atlas is one of the largest books on Earth. The volume is six feet tall by seven feet wide when open.

It was given to King Charles II in 1660 by Dutch sugar merchant Johannes Klencke. Most of the maps were designed to hang on walls, but Klencke had them bound together into the massive book. For the effort, he earned knighthood and several lucrative trade concessions for his plantations in Brazil.

The Klencke’s reign as the world’s largest atlas lasted about 350 years, but it was finally surpassed in 2012 with the publication of The Earth Platinum Atlas, a six-foot by nine-foot behemoth that includes incredibly detailed satellite images of the surface of the earth.

(Source: wikipedia)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/04/our-mission-is-crucial-meet-the-warrior-librarians-of-ukraine

‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t counted on the unbreakable spirit of the country’s librarians

For our followers who are around UCSB -- we are delighted to announce that our balcony (the one that overlooks Storke Plaza) is now open to all during our business hours (M-F, 9am-6pm).

Please come check it out!

An important hidden message in St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford Library 👀

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Congratulations to UCSB PhDs Vincent Rone (editor, contributor) and Michael Vitalino (contributor) on their recent publications in: https://www.intellectbooks.com/nostalgia-and-videogame-music

Congratulations to UCSB Ethnomusicology's newest PhD, Dr. Jared Holton!
Jared will be continuing his professional career as a Lecturer at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music, starting this August. Dr. Holton will be teaching classes in his specialization on North African and Middle Eastern music, as well as courses in popular and Western art musics.

UCSB Music Library updated their business hours.

If you are around UCSB tomorrow, please consider attending this valuable session.

The Music Library sends our condolences to the families and friends of 2 former teachers in the UCSB Music Department's voice program who have recently passed away.
Rest in peace, Paul Sahuc and Elizabeth Mannion.

Actually, the online catalogue is in many ways so much more powerful!

Congratulations to Music professors Robert Koenig and Jennifer Kloetzel on their new CD!

Dry snacks and covered drinks, only!

Oh, dear!
(But seriously, we do archive all Music Department performances and recitals. If you performed in one, or had a piece performed in one, and would like a copy, let us know!)

Winnie-the-Pooh, an Ernest Hemingway Classic and a Massive Library of Sound Recordings Will Enter the Public Domain on January 1 Works newly available to copy, republish and remix in 2022 also include poems by Langston Hughes and Dorothy Parker