May 25, 2021 at 11:00 am by Sindhu Ananthavel
After a year of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UC Santa Barbaraâs campus is slowly coming back to life, with a few campus amenities now slowly reopening to students. The Recreation Center, University Library and Portola Dining Commons recently opened up this quarter and have offered a taste of on-campus life for students. For some, itâs a reminder of what campus used to be, while for freshman and transfer students, the buildings are a new experience altogether.
To aid with reopening, students are required to show a digital âgreen badgeâ to gain access to all on-campus facilities that are currently open, which indicates that the individual has had a negative COVID-19 test within the past week and has filled out COVID-19 Symptom Screening Surveys via the Student Health Patient Portal.Â
May 6, 2021 at 8:20 pm by Asumi Shuda
The UC Santa Barbara library began phase 2 of its reopening on April 26, allowing students to access an increasing number of limited study spaces as public health guidelines allow them to increase indoor capacity in a four-phase plan.Â
The first-floor Mountain Side Paseo Commons and the first-floor Mountain Side North and South areas are now open at 25% capacity.Â
Because of social distancing, all of the seats currently available are for individual study only, Hannah Rael, the libraryâs communications and marketing manager, said.Â
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The first phase of opening began March 29 when the Mountain Side Learning Commons on the first and second floors reopened at 25% seating capacity, in accordance with the County of Santa Barbaraâs red tier status at the time. Santa Barbara County is now in the orange tier in the COVID-19 reopening framework, allowing for greater seating capacity.Â
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As a result, many noteworthy collections were donated to TOLF, including, among others, those of radio station KNX-CBS; radio actor and radio historian Frank Bresee, who hosted “The Golden Days of Radio;” comedian Red Skelton; Carlton Morse, the creator of the long-running radio soap opera “One Man’s Family;” radio and television writers Milton and Barbara Merlin; and Allin Slate, a pioneer of the sports talk show format on KABC radio in Los Angeles.
“The Thousand Oaks Library Foundation radio archives brings together the remarkable talent of early radio and bandstand personalities of the 20th century,” said Danelle Moon, director of special research collections.