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The UC San Diego Library Digital Collections consists of documents, images, video and audio recordings, and research data sets made available to support scholarship, teaching and learning. Content has been drawn from primary source materials from across the Library's collections, as well as data generated by campus researchers.
Collections at this institution
1973 Guardian Tour of China
In August of 1973, the Guardian Newspaper sponsored a 21-day tour of China for 21 Americans. The Guardian was a left wing newspaper, and this was the third public tour that it had sponsored in 1973, following visits by newspaper editors and others in 1972. The tour participants were recruited from newspaper subscribers and by word of mouth. For its August 1973 tour, the group entered the PRC from Hong Kong and visited Foshan in Guangdong province, then Shanghai and Beijing, followed by Shenyang, Dalian, and Jilin in the Northeast region of China. The group returned to Beijing at the ...
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598 Items
Ann Skinner-Jones and Joan Larcom Photographs
In 1981, Anthropologist Joan Larcom traveled with Photographer Ann Skinner-Jones to Vanuatu to create a photographic essay of the people and culture during the first anniversary of the country's independence from France and the United Kingdom. The collection focuses on the people's experiences of independence and new nationhood, mostly on the island of Malakula, where local people have refereed the interface between politics, custom and religion by re-categorizing tradition in creative ways.
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353 Items
Art of Science
Data curators at the UC San Diego Library have the privilege of working with researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines as they prepare data for the Library’s Research Data Collections repository. The visually stunning nature of some of these research data sets has inspired the Library’s Research Data Curation Program (RDCP) to host its inaugural Art of Science contest, which aims to celebrate the beauty that can emerge during scientific exploration and raise awareness of the Library’s data curation services. In February 2021, UC San Diego and affiliate students, postdoctoral and faculty researchers were invited to submit images ...
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13 Items
Chinese News
The Chinese News, the inaugural content for the Sally T. WongAvery collection, features a digital archive of the newspaper created from the print archive donated by Mr. Stanley Ting in partnership with UC San Diego alumna, lawyer, educator, and philanthropist Ms. Sally T. WongAvery. The Chinese News, founded by Mr. Ting in 1983, distributed news and advertising to the Chinese-American population in San Diego until 1998. The weekly newspaper contains local and international news articles written in Chinese in addition to advertising in English and Chinese.
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670 Items
Cinewest Archive
The Cinewest archive collection contains materials documenting several Cinewest production initiatives including "Border Brujo", "California Murals off the Wall", "Mexico History and Image", and others. The "Border Brujo" archives include documentation of live performances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. The "Mexico History and Image" collection includes Mexican and Chicano murals and art shot in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The "California Murals off the Wall/Art in Progress" archives include documentation of artists David Avalos, Victor Ochoa, Gronk, Barbara Carrasco, Michael Schnorr and others at work on a portable mural show at the Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego. And ...
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578 Items
CONNECT
CONNECT is a premier innovation company accelerator in San Diego that creates and scales great companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. By creating an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources they need for success, CONNECT has assisted in the formation and development of more than 3,000 companies since 1985. Widely regarded as one of the world’s most successful organizations linking entrepreneurs and C-suite executives with the resources they need for the commercialization of innovative products and services; our program has been modeled in more than 50 regions around ...
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603 Items
Edwin Hutchins and Dona Hutchins Collection
This collection documents anthropological fieldwork by American anthropologist, Edwin Hutchins, and presently includes photographs created by Hutchins and his wife, Dona. The main fieldwork took place between July 1975 and September 1976, in the Trobriand Islands of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, primarily on the island of Kiriwina (also known as Boyowa). During this time the Hutchins were based in the village of Tukwaukwa. Other areas of Papua New Guinea visited by both Edwin and Dona Hutchins, and depicted in the photographs, include Kairiru in East Sepik Province, Port Moresby and its surroundings, and Western Highlands Province. Also included ...
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1,031 Items
Franja de Propaganda Electoral de Chile en 1988
El contenido de esta colección constituye el primer ejemplo de propaganda política televisada realizado en Chile. Se conoce por el título de "Franja de Propaganda Electoral" y fue producida y transmitida durante los 27 días previos al plebiscito de 1988 para decidir si el dictador Augusto Pinochet seguiría como presidente o si cedería el cargo a una administración democrática de transición en 1988. La campaña "Franja" televisada asignó 15 minutos a los defensores del régimen militar (representado por el voto de "SÍ") y 15 a los partidarios del cambio a una administración presidencial demócrata (afiliado con el voto "NO") para ...
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27 Items
Gatherings: Event, Agency, and Program
"Gatherings: Event, Agency, and Program" (Gatherings) is a work of new media art that was written, produced, and performed by Jordan Crandall, a professor and new media artist in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego. Gatherings is a mixed-media performative lecture that studies the nature of events and new forms of awareness, cognition, and material agency that emerge in the wake of technological change. It shows how technologies of tracking and surveillance transform people and objects into actors, influence them to come together as matters worthy of attention. It enables us to see how actors gather into composites, ...
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7 Items
H. Lee Hansen Collection
The Hansen Collection is a group of travel films dating from 1936 through 1980. The collection comprises both the private histories of home movies and the public record of travel films and is an important source of information for the researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
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41 Items
