Since its foundation in 1965, the UC Santa Cruz Library has been the largest research library between Stanford and UC Santa Barbara. The relative youth of the university and its unique spirit of intellectual freedom has allowed the library to grow responsively with the campus and its programs and to innovate and adapt with remarkable agility. The library boasts a distinctive identity in its interdisciplinary collections like the Grateful Dead Archive and such special exhibits as “Activism in the Archives” and “What is a book?”
In 2016, UC Santa Cruz Library acquired the Other Minds Collection, perhaps the most important collection of Western contemporary and experimental music in the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection consists of 4,000 audio and visual recordings spanning four decades. Included in the collection are 30 years of recordings of the Cabrillo Music Festivals, including performances and interviews with the composers. Known to music lovers around the world, the Cabrillo Music Festival is a point of pride for Santa Cruz. In a way, the UC Santa Cruz Library is bringing these tapes home.
The library needs help in making these recordings accessible. Digitizing these tapes will give students, faculty, researchers, and the Santa Cruz community access to them. A $250 donation will digitize one reel of these 300 tapes; $2,500 will digitize a whole season of music and interviews with composers and performers.
Your support will enable the library to continue providing rare and unique materials to the UC Santa Cruz community, so give today!
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