Preliminary Guide to the John Ridland Collection
Processed by David C. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Fax: (805) 893-5749
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
© 2002
Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Preliminary Guide to the John Ridland Collection, ca. 1957-1999
Collection number: SBHC Mss 47
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- David C. Tambo
- Date Completed:
-
13 November 2001
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2002 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: John Ridland Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1957-1999
Collection Number: SBHC Mss 47
Creator:
Ridland, John
Extent:
.4 linear feet
(1 document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
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
John Ridland Collection. SBHC Mss 47. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Donated by John Ridland, 1998 and 2001.
Biography
John Ridland is a UCSB Professor of English, Emeritus, a poet, and a supporter of local literary endeavors. Several of his
published works are located in Special Collections. They can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
Ridland also was a longtime faculty advisor and contributor to the UCSB student literary publication,
Spectrum.
Collection Contents
Series 1.
Poetry/literature
Scope and Content Note
Material relating to Santa Barbara area poets and presses, including ephemera and other items laid in printed works. Monographs
and serials have been cataloged individually and may be searched in Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
Box 1: 1
Ephemera and laid-in items
Box 1: 2
Magazines, newspapers and other serials (mainly single issues, including Jan. 1976 issue of
The Fly, produced in Isla Vista)
Series 2.
Isla Vista-related items
Scope and Content Note
Isla Vista items relating to the troubles of 1970 and including a piece by Ridland entitled "Eyes and Ears on Isla Vista:
An Unpublished Review from 1970."
Box 1: 3
Eyes and Ears on Isla Vista: An Unpublished Review from 1970, by John Ridland
Box 1: 4
Newspaper accounts of Isla Vista troubles (
El Gaucho,
LA Times, and
Maine Times), 1970
Series 3.
Spectrum files
Scope and Content Note
Ridland's files as faculty advisor of the UCSB student publication,
Spectrum.
Box 1: 12
Prizes and Publicity, ca. 1957-1989
