Alternative Press Collection, ca. 1966 - 1977

Summary

Title:

Alternative Press Collection,

Dates:

ca. 1966 - 1977

Extent:

10 linear feet (26 oversize boxes)

Language:

English.

Preferred citation:

Alternative Press Collection. Mss 169. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection mainly contains latter 1960s and early 1970s US newspapers, with an emphasis on California, but also some foreign titles. In most cases there are only single or scattered issues, not long runs. Included are newspapers devoted to African American, anti-war, Chicano/Latino, environmental, feminist, gay/lesbian, literary/poetry, radical/conservative, and religious themes and issues.

Acquisition information:

Purchase and donation from various sources, mainly in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Physical location:

Del Sur, Newspaper area.

Related resources

Related material:

In UCSB Special Collections

Longer runs of similar newspapers have been cataloged individually and may be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog. Titles include:

Akwesasne Notes
Altar Native Sun
Berkeley Barb
Daily Planet
Directions for Women
Everywoman
Goleta Valley Today
Green Revolution
isla vista argo
Isla Vista Free Press
Isla Vista Viewpoint
Isla Vistar
LA Free Press
Majority Report
Nola Express
Open City
Planet
Probe
Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara News & Review
Sojourner
Strategic Hamlet

American Religions Collection. Contains newspapers issued by various twentieth century, non-mainstream religious groups.

Radical Pamphlets Collection. Includes material relating to anarchism, anticommunism, anti-war, draft resistance and conscientious objection status, ecology, ecumenicism, education, gangs, gay liberation, health care, imperialism, intentional communities, labor unions, Marxism, New Left, peace activism, revolutionary movements, student activism, tenants rights, Viet Nam, and women's issues.

Santa Barbara Newspapers Collection. Contains smaller runs of local newspapers, including alternative press.

Elsewhere in UCSB Libraries

Alternative Press: A Guide to the Microfilm Collection (Reference). A copy of the guide only is at UCSB. The microfilm was acquired through the UC Shared Collections and Access program, and is located at UCSC.

Alternative Press Index (Reference).

Underground Press Collection, 1963-1985. Microform set, 476 reels, with accompanying guide. Some, but not most, of the issues in the Alternative Press Collection can be found in the Underground Press Collection.

At Other Institutions

Ash, Lee, and William G. Miller, Subject Collections (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1993), has headings such as Underground Literature and Press, which list a number of repositories with significant related collections. Among them are:

Library of Congress, Serial and Government Publications Division

Michigan State University

Northwestern University

University of Connecticut

Stanford University, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace. New Left Politics Collection and other special subject collections, at: http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/homepage/library.html

State Historical Society of Wisconsin. According to the entry in Ash, the largest collection of U.S. and Canadian underground or alternative publications in North America (http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/library/collect.html). Also, a number of social action collections in the Archives Division at: http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/archives/index.html

University of California Berkeley, Bancroft Library. Free Speech Movement Project at:http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/FSM/

University of California, Davis, Special Collections. Alternative theatre collections, several from the San Francisco area at: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/specol/html/perform.html

UCLA, Young Library. The entry in Ash notes: "Current non-governmental English-language pamphlets (192,819), broadsides, leaflets and other ephemera on public affairs, from 1960, representing a wide spectrum of political and social opinions."

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by David C. Tambo

Date Prepared:

© 2002

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid in EAD v. 1.0 derived from MS Word 2000 file by David C. Gartrell. Date of source: 04 April 2002 .

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

Alternative Press Collection. Mss 169. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:

UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US

Contact:

(805) 893-3062

special@library.ucsb.edu

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