UCLA Library Special Collections
For more information on contacting and accessing UCLA Library Special Collections, please visit the LSC website and FAQ pages.
- Online Archive of California (OAC) This link opens in a new windowFinding aids for primary source collections in all UC campuses and other contributing institutions, including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California.
- Performing Arts Materials in Library Special CollectionsGuides to archival collections related to animation, film and television, theater, dance, and music.
UCLA Collections with Archival Materials
Below are links to primary locations for print special collections of relevance to the study of film and television at UCLA. Select online finding aids are also available via the Online Archive of California.
- UCLA Library Special CollectionsPrimary location for music, film and television, and theater special collections, including unpublished scripts, stills, studio and personal papers.
- UCLA Film & Television ArchiveThe UCLA Film & Television Archive holds over 350,000 motion pictures and 170,000 television programs, spanning the entire course of film and broadcasting history. The collection includes independent and studio-produced shorts and feature films, documentaries, local and network TV programming, commercials, news and public affairs broadcasts, LGBTQIA media, and 27 million feet of newsreels produced between 1919 and 1971.
- Chicano Studies Research Center Library and Special CollectionsThe Library's holdings consist of monographs, periodicals, subject files, dissertations and theses, as well as original prints by Chicana/o artists, films, videotapes, audio recordings, slides, and over 160 archival and manuscript collections.
- UCLA Ethnomusicology ArchiveThe Archive’s collection of more than 150,000 audio, video, print, and photographic items documents musical expressions throughout the world and includes unique field recordings as well as rare commercial recordings.
General Catalogs and Finding Aids
- Online Archive of California (OAC) This link opens in a new windowFinding aids for primary source collections in all UC campuses and other contributing institutions, including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California.
- ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window
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Searches finding aids for historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in libraries, museums, and archives around the world. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies. - WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
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OCLC FirstSearch catalog includes citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, videotapes, archival material, etc., in libraries around the world.
- European Film GatewayGateway to films, photographs, and ephemera from European film archives and cinémathèques.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)Gateway for searching OCLC WorldCat manuscripts.
- Subject CollectionsLast updated in 1993, this still-useful print source identifies special collections in the U.S. by broad subject.