Former UCLA director of library special collections Athena Jackson will be the next Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, UCLA announced Thursday. Jackson will start in the role March 1 and succeed Virginia Steel, who had occupied the position since 2013, according to an announcement from Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt.
The UCLA Library received a donation of a political cartoon collection valued at $4.2 million in September. The collection, donated by Michael and Susan Kahn, contains more than one million political cartoons and caricatures originating between 1690 and 2022.