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American Radio Archives

The American Radio Archives (ARA), formerly housed at the Thousand Oaks Public Library and owned and administered by the Thousand Oaks Library Foundation, has been donated to the UCSB Library. One of the largest collections of archival material documenting the history of radio in the United States, the collections that form the ARA are a significant addition to UCSB’s already extensive collections related to the performing arts, broadcasting, and media.

Over the coming months the ARA collections will be physically moved to UCSB’s facilities and inventories and finding tools will be integrated into UCSB Library systems for providing researcher access, including the Special Research Collections website, the Online Archive of California, and the Special Collections Research Account. This work will happen in phases and will take time.