Library Digital Collections

This guide provides Digital Library Collections tutorials, data, scourse-specific IIIF guides and other digitized primary resources information.

Item Viewing

The Library Digital Collections site presents items at high resolution in a Universal Viewer to allow close inspection of details

Sample Items

UCLA Library Digital Collections provide access to hundreds of thousands of items. Here is a sample of four items to show the diversity of materials you might find

Cuban cinema poster showing the "man in the moon" getting his eye poked by a rocket ship and hovering over a map of Cuba

A Cuban cinema poster

"15 Aniversario Cinemateca de Cuba" (1975) from Carteles de Cine, an International Digital Ephemera Project.

 

Ethiopic prayer scroll (detail)Ethiopic prayer scroll (detail)

An illuminated manuscript

Manuscript No. 1: Gladzor Gospels (1300-1307) from Armenian Manuscripts

Impounded Japanese fishing boats, Fish Harbor, Los Angeles (Calif.)

A news photograph

"Impounded Japanese fishing boats, Fish Harbor, Los Angeles" (1942). Original photonegative from The Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Impounded Japanese fishing boats, Fish Harbor, Los Angeles (Calif.)

A fashion design sketch

Cashin's hand-painted illustrations of ensembles featuring black and white / gray Forstmann wool. f07-10 (Oct. 1953) from Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000