UC Irvine Libraries, Special Collections

UCI's collection of artists' books dates from the 1960s to the present (400 volumes to date, most of them published after 1990) encompassing nearly all aspects of the genre from "normal" published works to altered, sculptural, painted and unique books. The collection has three major foci: works by and about women; works that explore contemporary American politics; and works produced in Latin American countries.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections

This collection is comprised of diaries created by Susan R. Braunwald documenting her second child's acquisition of American English between late infancy (8-months) and early childhood (50-months). The diaries are redacted photocopied versions that are otherwise exact copies of the originals. The handwritten diaries contain information about an inclusive process of language acquisition that encompasses pragmatics, semantics, and syntax and is considered the "most complete diary in existence of one child's development of complex syntax." The daily entries from 12-to-48 months including detailed contextual and developmental notes make these data useful for research in child language and more broadly in …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections

This collection consists of photographs taken by University of California, Irvine anthropology professor emeritus Frank Cancian (1934-2020) during three separate projects in 1957, 1971, and 1973-2002. The collection comprises three sub-collections of photographs that illustrate the variety of anthropological studies performed by Cancian during his career. The Lacedonia photographs document the people and places in a small town in Italy in 1957. The Zinacantan photographs document the people and places in and around Zinacantan, Mexico in 1971. The Orange County Housecleaners photographs document the working lives of housecleaning staff in Orange County, California between 1971 - 2002.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections

American physicist Hugh Everett, III (1930-1982) first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics. These documents include scanned original documents, draft and final versions of Everett's long and short Ph.D. theses and the early notes that led to these published works, Everett's correspondence regarding his relative state formulation of pure wave mechanics, and miscellaneous biographical material discovered by investigative journalist Peter Byrne, Petaluma, CA in 2007 in the Los Angeles basement of Everett’s son, Mark Everett. The original documents were digitized with support from National Science Foundation Grant #0924135. The collection is edited by Jeffrey A. Barrett, Peter Byrne, …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections

An oral interview with Dr. Karen Leonard, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Leonard discusses documenting equity issues for women in higher education in California throughout the 1970s-1990s. Dr. Leonard was involved in several equity rights organizations including Women at Irvine in the 1970s; co-chair and president of the UCI Chapter of California Women in Higher Education in the 1970s and 1980s; member or chair of UCI Academic Senate committees on Affirmative Action (including chairing the systemwide committee) and Privilege and Tenure in the 1970s and 1990s; Affirmative Action Coordinator of University …

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections

This collection comprises notes, correspondence, interviews, photographs, slides, audio and video recordings, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, books, catalogues, printed ephemera, and artifacts collected and created during the life and career of artist, critic, and educator Christine Tamblyn. Files include extensive documentation of two of Tamblyn's CD-ROM works, She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology (1993) and Mistaken Identities (1995). Videos represented here were created using screencast software as a means for providing access to Macintosh formatted CD-ROMs.

Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections