Santa Barbara County will host a public workshop to gather community feedback and direction for the design of the new Orcutt Library. The workshop will be ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Nostalgia tends to run deep for simpler times, when life unfolded much slower than the leaps and bounds of our current tech-fueled pace. At the same time, today’s technology makes it much easier to ...

Laura Jean Treat Liebhaber, curator and co-founder of the Santa Barbara community archives project, said the goal is to get new perspectives on Santa Barbara’s past. Credit: Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk ...

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 ...

The Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation is honored to be included on the 2026 Giving List, recognizing local nonprofit ...

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 ...

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.