Library Digital Collections

The UCLA Center for Oral History Research (COHR) conducts in-depth, multi-session oral history interviews with individuals who have been a part of the history of Los Angeles and its many communities. COHR has particularly strong collections in the history of social movements, communities of color, the arts, Los Angeles politics and government, and the history of UCLA.

Over 125,000 songs celebrating North America’s Spanish-language musical heritage

A collaboration of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, in partnership with the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL) and the UCLA Library. Widely recognized as the world’s oldest continually operating library, the manuscript holdings of St. Catherine’s Monastery are a resource to study the history and literature of the Eastern Mediterranean from late antiquity until early modernity. NOTE: this digital library is intended for scholarly use and requires a password-authenticated account, which can be requested from the home page.

State-of-the-art spectral imaging recovered erased texts from palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, the world’s oldest continually operating monastery. The monastery holds an exceptional collection of more than 160 palimpsests, the erased layers of which preserve unstudied texts from the 4th to the 12th century.

The Visual History of UCLA as Told Through 10,000+ Images." This collection has its own interactive viewing site, and items are also viewable on the main Digital Collections Site)