USC Libraries

The USC Architecture and Fine Arts Library just received the book collections of Herbert Hymans, formerly of the Getty, and Henry Lovins, the founder of the Hollywood Art Center.

On October 28 at 3:30 in the Leavey Library auditorium, Ruth Wallach, Linda McCann, Dace Taube, Claude Zachary, and Curt Roseman will celebrate the publication of their book, Historic Hotels of Los Angeles and Hollywood.

Larry Harnisch covered Archives Live! The 3rd-Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar in The Daily Mirror, a blog devoted to Los Angeles history.

Monthly maintenance for ebrary is scheduled for the first Tuesday of each month. The USC Libraries subscribe to the Academic Complete collection on ebrary, featuring ebooks about a range of academic subjects.

The Los Angeles radio station invited Robert Vaughn, music library manager, to talk about our exhibition of album art, A Sound Design. Listen to a clip after the jump.

VKC Library will screen the remaining presidential debates in the multimedia room on Tuesday, October 7th and Wednesday, October 15th at 6:00pm.

The New York Times' "Cultured Traveler" tours the Los Angeles homes and describes the legacies of mid-20th-century German exiles.

Parade Route by the acclaimed artist and USC Roski School of Fine Arts professor will appear in the artists' book exhibition To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book from October 19, 2008 through January 18, 2009 at MOCA Pacific Design Center.

The Los Angeles Times' "Jacket Copy" highlighted the opening of Biblioclasm, our current exhibition on banned, burned and otherwise challenged books.

The USC Libraries' fall exhibition about banned books and the role of censorship in the history of ideas opened on September 26 in Doheny Library. An exhibition of drawings by USC architecture students based on passages from the banned books opened on the ground floor of Doheny.