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SBHC Mss 10
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Title: Get Oil Out! (GOO!) collection
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 10
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
36.2 linear feet
(75 document boxes, 4 flat oversize boxes)
Creator:
Get Oil Out!
Date (inclusive): 1969-2014
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.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research 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.
[Identification of Item], Get Oil Out! (GOO!) Collection, SBHC Mss 10. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Multiple donations by GOO!, ca. 1989, 1994, 2016.
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.
- 2016 Addition (Boxes 72-76) - GOO! Office files and historical photographs (prints and slides), mainly of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill.
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 the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
This collection has received preliminary processing only. A brief container list is available.
Related Collections at UCSB Library Special Research 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)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Offshore oil industry -- Government policy -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Offshore oil and gas leases -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Oil spills -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Environmental policy -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Environmental justice
Administrative records
Newsletters
Organization files
Photographs
Publications (documents)
Records (documents)
Reports
Get Oil Out! -- Archives