In addition to the extensive collections of the UCLA Library, a rich array of other information resources is independently managed by individual UCLA departments and centers.
The Bunche Center for African American Studies Library and Media Center contains materials reflecting the African American experience in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. The American Indian Studies Center Library houses a collection on American Indian life, culture, and state of affairs in historical and contemporary perspectives. The Asian American Studies Center Library/Reading Room features Asian American and Pacific Islander resources. Materials related to Chicano and Latino cultures are housed in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library. The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library contains rare books, manuscripts, and other noncirculating materials on English culture (1641 to 1800). The English Reading Room features a noncirculating collection of British and American literature, literary history, and criticism.
The Film and Television Archive is the world’s largest university-based collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming. The archive holdings of over 350,000 motion pictures, 160,000 television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage serve the UCLA community and national and international constituencies.
The Motion Picture Collection includes 27 million feet of Hearst Metrotone News film dating back to 1919, as well as noteworthy holdings including studio print and/or pre-print libraries from Hal Roach, New World Pictures, Orion Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, RKO, Sony/Columbia Pictures, Twentieth-Century Fox, Universal Studios, and Warner Brothers. Certain special moving image collections document the careers of Robert Altman, Dorothy Arzner, Hal Ashby, Tony Curtis, Ossie Davis, Cecil B. DeMille, Rock Hudson, Stanley Kramer, Harold Lloyd, Ida Lupino, Dolores del Río, Rosalind Russell, Anna May Wong, William Wyler, and independent filmmakers such as Allison Anders, Charles Burnett, Larry Clark, Julie Dash, Arthur Dong, Pat Rocco, and John Sayles to name a few.
The Television Collection includes kinescopes, telefilms, and videotapes spanning the entire course of broadcast history from 1946 to the present. All genres and types of programming are represented, including narrative works, news, specials, and local programming created by and for marginalized communities. A tape collection of over 100,000 news and public affairs programs acquired from off-air broadcasts (circa 1980 to 2003) is also maintained.
Archive Public Programs present screenings and discussions that focus on archival materials, new work by independent filmmakers, and international films.
The Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC) in Powell Library is the primary access point, for research and instruction, to the archive's collection of unique holdings.
Instructional Media Collections and Services, located in Powell Library, is the central UCLA resource for collection and maintenance of educational and instructional media. Materials from the collection are loaned to regularly scheduled UCLA classes and may be rented by organizations and individuals from the campus community and beyond. Staff members monitor compliance with UCLA and UC guidelines and federal copyright law governing the use of video recordings. Reference books from educational and feature-film distributors are available. Staff members assist in researching media on any subject and obtaining materials from outside sources.
The Instructional Media Laboratory offers access to course- or textbook-related audio, interactive, and video programs. Students, assigned by faculty members to study specific supplementary materials, may learn at their own pace and time.
The Ethnomusicology Archive houses over 150,000 sound and audiovisual recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-Western classical music. The Social Science Data Archive contains a collection of statistical databases for the social sciences. The UCLA Lab School Gonda Family Library features contemporary materials for children from kindergarten through junior high school and adult works on children’s literature.
