Library offers look at shortlist of books under consideration, asks for input on final selection, for UCSB Reads 2021
UCSB Reads
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UCSB Reads: In a community forum, author Elizabeth Rush discusses ‘Rising,’ her acclaimed book about sea level rise -
“In Her Own Image,” an exhibition at the campus library, explores the work of female comic book creators -
Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea uses humor to tackle borders, immigration and family -
The award-winning best-seller chronicles the attorney’s work seeking justice for the wrongly convicted -
UCSB Reads: a series of events including book discussions, faculty panels, a film screening, an exhibition and a talk by the author -
Bestseller chronicles Kerman’s experience in a minimum-security women’s prison and is the basis of the popular Netflix series -
For the first time in “UCSB Reads” history, people outside the Santa Barbara area will have an opportunity to hear — and chat with — the program’s featured author. From noon to 1 p.m.
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UCSB Reads continues through winter quarter with a series of events that includes book discussions, faculty panels, and featured speakers at UC Santa Barbara and at public libraries in Santa Barbara and Montecito.
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Chancellor Henry T. Yang and his wife, Dilling, helped hand out free copies of the "UCSB Reads" selection for 2014, "The Big Burn," by Timothy Egan at the Davidson Library.
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'UCSB Reads' engages the campus and community in conversations about issues of significant local and national interest. -
UCSB Reads continues through winter quarter with a series of events that includes a film screening, book and panel discussions, faculty lectures, and writing workshops at UC Santa Barbara and at public libraries from Montecito to Solvang.
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When journalist Joshua Foer covered the 2005 USA Memory Championship in Manhattan for Slate magazine, he didn't expect to return a year later as one of the competitors.
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UCSB Reads continues through winter quarter with faculty members across a variety of disciplines participating in a series of Community Conversations at public libraries from Solvang to Carpinteria. The talks begin at 6 p.m.
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To her family and friends, she was Henrietta Lacks. To scientists, however, she is HeLa, the first "immortal" human cell line.
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When Enrique Gomez was 5 years old, his mother left him with relatives in Honduras while she traveled to the United States to find work. For more than a decade, Enrique waited desperately for her to come home.
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The UC Santa Barbara Library has chosen "Ethics for the New Millennium" by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama as this year's book selection for the UCSB Reads program.
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The UC Santa Barbara Library has received a prestigious national award from the American Library Association (ALA) recognizing outstanding achievement in library public relations for "UCSB Reads for Earth Day," a 2007 community-wide effort to...
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To raise awareness about the impact of globalization on society, the UC Santa Barbara Libraries have chosen the "Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy: an Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade" by Pietra Rivoli...
