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Preliminary Guide to the Get Oil Out (GOO) Collection
SBHC Mss 10
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Title: Get Oil Out (GOO) Collection
Dates: ca. 1969-1990
Collection number: SBHC Mss 10
Creator:
Get Oil Out (GOO)
Collection Size:
28.4 linear feet
(71 document boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Office files (bylaws, minutes, fundraising, publications, newsletters), governmental action, legal, and subject files, mainly
pertaining to efforts to contain and monitor oil industry off coast of Santa Barbara, especially in the aftermath of the 1969
Santa Barbara Oil Spill.
Physical location: Annex 2.
Languages:
English
None. Collection stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Get Oil Out (GOO) Collection. SBHC Mss 10. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Multiple donations by GOO, ca. 1989, 1994.
The collection primarily contains files on oil-related issues stemming from the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill. Materials are
grouped into the following series:
- Government Action/Response (Boxes 1-15) - local, state, federal, including hearings, reports, and legislation.
- Lawsuits/Legal Action (Boxes 16-20) - mainly court records and related material re lawsuits GOO was involved in or was monitoring.
- Office Files (Boxes 21-27) - including bylaws, minutes, fundraising, mailings, membership, newsletters, and publications.
- Subject Files (Boxes 28-71) - the largest part of the collection, arranged alphabetically.
Published materials, such as Environmental Impact Reports, have been transferred to the UCSB Libraries Government Information
Center (GIC). They have been cataloged and may be searched in Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
This collection has received preliminary processing only. A brief container list is available.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Get Oil Out (GOO)
Oil industries--United States
Oil and gas leases--California.
Environmental justice.
In UCSB Special Collections:
- California Coastal Commission Collection (SBHC Mss 39)
- George Clyde Scrapbooks (SBHC Mss 53)
- County Resource Management Office (CRMO) Collection (SBHC Mss 25)
- Robert O. Easton Collection (SBHC Mss 6)
- Oil Spill Information Center (OSIC) Collection (SBHC Mss 11)
- William Whitehill Rand Papers (SBHC Mss 46)
- Ruth Saadi Collection (SBHC Mss 14)
- Santa Barbara Oil Spill Scrapbook (SBHC Mss 52)
- Robert C. Sharp Collection (SBHC Mss 7)
- Robert Sollen Collection (SBHC Mss 33)
- Harriette Von Breton Papers (SBHC Mss 8)
- Weigand, et al, v. County, et al (Channel Island Drilling) Collection (SBHC Mss 31)
For the latest list of oil-related collections, see the collections list on the web at:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/aguides.html