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- Location: La Jolla, CA
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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
Pueblos Yucatecos
The “Pueblos Yucatecos” Project and Collection grew out of a series of oral history interviews, conducted in 2000 as part of my dissertation research on women’s organizing in the decades following the Mexican Revolution [Sarah Anne Buck, Activists and mothers: Feminist and maternalist politics in Mexico, 1923-1953, Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 2002]. At that time, I was interested in learning as much as possible about revolutionary women’s leagues from the perspective of rural women who belonged to such groups. I gained insight into this topic and much more, as the women interviewed told me about daily and extraordinary life events …
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139 Items
Robert Entenmann Collection
Robert Entenmann’s documents concerning his 1972 trip to China as a CCAS delegate.
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2 Items
Robert Mosher UC San Diego Architectural Image Collection
The Robert Mosher collection includes photographs of the interior and exterior of architectural structures as well as plans, drawings, elevations, models, studies, and materials samples of UC San Diego buildings and spaces. Development and master plans are also included. Most of the buildings and structures in this collection were designed by Robert Mosher but there are some images of UC San Diego structures that were designed by other architectural firms. Robert Mosher (1920 – 2015) and Roy Drew (1913 - 2004) partnered to create the architectural firm Mosher Drew. The firm's early work was primarily residential and commercial commissions in …
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284 Items
Roger Reynolds Ping Collection
Ping is a 1968 multimedia work by Roger Reynolds on a text by Samuel Beckett. It involves slide projections, a film of a Butoh dancer made in Japan, pre-recorded electro-acoustic sound, live electronic processing, and a score for flute, percussion, and piano. This collection is an illustrative portion of the components and related documentation, including compositional sketches and diagrams, films, interviews with Reynolds, and photographs from both the 1968 and 2011 performances at UCSD.
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413 Items
Slab City
From about 1986 to 1992 videographers Sherman George and Greg Durbin shot footage of the Sonoran Desert community of Slab City (Imperial County, California) for an unrealized documentary. These videos include extensive interviews with residents, various community activities (swap meets, holiday parties etc.) and many shots of the surrounding desert landscape and military bombing range.
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223 Items
Social Sciences Data Collection
The Social Sciences Data Collection includes an assortment of numeric and textual datasets collected by the Library to support the research and learning needs of UC San Diego students, staff, and academics. Some datasets are open access, while others are licensed by the Library and restricted to UC San Diego IP addresses. Topics covered by these datasets include Census microdata, industry, terrorism, country risk, United States election results, and Latin American public opinion data. The Library also licenses many web-based e-resources that include datasets. Please consult the Library’s research guides and list of online databases to access additional datasets in …
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6 Items
Stephen MacKinnon Collection
Stephen MacKinnon, Professor of History at Arizona State University, was also a member of the 1972 Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) Friendship Delegation. He was an assistant professor at Arizona State University when he traveled to China from March 10 to April 8, 1972. His color slides included in this collection documented the trip in 1972.
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246 Items
Stuart Collection Photographs
Since 1981, the Stuart Collection at the UC San Diego has sought to enrich the cultural, intellectual, and scholarly life of the UCSD campus and of the San Diego community by building and maintaining a unique collection of site-specific works by leading artists of our time. Included here are selections of photographs of all the works currently in the collection as well as documentation of the construction process, installations and re-installations, models and maquettes, proposed and design drawings, photos of artists, in-studio images, site-planning and sites before construction, details, restorations, people interacting with artworks, and events incorporating artworks.
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411 Items
Taiwanese American Archives' Photo Albums
Bob Cheng, local Taiwanese-American entrepreneur, was the founder of the website/project http://taiwaneseamericanhistory.org. The mission of the website is to collect, preserve and display historical documents and artifacts pertaining to the history of the Taiwanese American Ethnic group. The Taiwanese American Archives' Photo Albums had been put together by the late Dr. Bob Cheng (1940-2020) and his team over a period of two decades. The images include documents and images covering a broad range of topics including sports, news events, concerts, festivals and conferences spanning the 1940s to the present decade.
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167 Items
Tell Us How UC It: Course Curriculum and Events
The Tell Us How UC It project has consisted of a number of course collaborations from workshops to one-shot classes. Included in this collection are some of the teaching materials, presentations, handouts and the outcome of class excercises, often represented by feedback from students on post-it notes.
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8 Items