Images and footage of weddings, holidays and pieces of Santa Barbara history are being preserved thanks to the Santa Barbara ...

FRESH LOOK: After two years of construction and chain link fences, Santa Barbara Public Library is back with a brand new community plaza. | Credit: Ingrid Bostrom The doors to the Faulkner Gallery at ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The Santa Barbara Library will open its long awaited Michael Towbes Library Plaza with a festive event November 3. An insider preview look is taking place Friday. Santa Barbara ...

Without the public-private partnership in funding made possible by the Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation, the Public Library would be limited in its scope and our entire community would lack the ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The Santa Barbara Public Library is celebrating National Library Week from April 6th to 12th. Managers of the library are hoping the community will share in the excitement of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Nelson Lichtenstein is a Professor for History in the University of California, Santa Barbara with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 ...

December 1, 2025 The Santa Barbara Public Library is honored to receive a $10,000 gift from the Carnegie Corporation of New York in ...

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.

Insects often exist on the periphery of our experiences. They blend into the landscape and soundscape, rarely the objects of our attention. But an exhibition at the UC Santa Barbara Library draws our ...