Current Exhibits
To see the online version of this exhibit, please click here.
Fall 2020 Exhibit: From I-Ching to Manga: UCI's East Asian Collection Celebrating 30 Years celebrates the thirty year anniversary of the establishment of the East Asian Collection highlighting treasures from the past.
Established in 1990, the UC Irvine Libraries’ East Asian Collection serves the needs of the East Asian research and teaching community on campus, which comprises faculty and students mainly from the departments of history, art history, East Asian studies, comparative literature, film and media, drama, sociology, political science and anthropology. The collection is also open to local residents. In a relatively short span of 30 years, the Collection has grown from the original 8,000 Chinese books to over 120,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages, making it one of the fastest growing Collections of this kind in the nation and the largest East Asian Collection in Orange County.
The growth of the East Asian Collection expanded the diversity of the items including a range of formats, subjects, geographic areas, and time periods. Over years, with continued generous support from library administrations, UCI faculty, and community partners, we have acquired rich resources in modern East Asian literature and history, and Chinese classics, including many unique items showcased below:
- I-Ching Collection, some 2,000 volumes, largely in Chinese, Japanese and Korean traditional binding format and with publication date back to 1911 and earlier.
- Shūkan Shōnen Magajin (1959-1995), a popular Japanese manga magazine from the very first issue to issues from its peak publication era.
- Hanʼguk Hojŏk Sŏngchʻaek (1904-193?) and Koseki Daicho (1902-1934), two sets of microfilm copies of significant Korean census records.
From I-Ching to Manga: UCI's East Asian Collection Celebrating 30 Years is curated by the Research Librarian for Asian Studies Dr. Ying Zhang and designed by Allan Helmick and Sylvia Irving.
Schedule of Events |
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Thursday, January 21, 2021 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. |
Astro Boy, Anime and Manga - oh wow! |
Monday, February 8, 2021 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. |
I-Ching Virtual Event: Working with Magical Symbols in Ancient Chinese Divination |
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. |
Virtual Manga Drawing Event |
The UCI Libraries Exhibits Program promotes the diverse holdings and scholarly and cultural value of the Libraries’ collections to the campus and community.
- To support the Libraries' Collection Enhancement Fund, please click here.

Finding the Edge: The Work and Insights of Edward O. Thorp highlights the extraordinarily diverse life and career of Edward O. Thorp. As a UCI founding professor of mathematics, best-selling author, hedge fund manager and blackjack player, this exhibit features Thorp’s mathematical odyssey from academia, to the casinos of Las Vegas, and the trading desks of Wall Street. The exhibit includes select writings and memorabilia showcasing his personal and professional papers throughout his impressive career. Thorp was a founding member of the UCI mathematics department and became a professor who mathematically proved card-counting gives every player an edge. Thorp also funded an endowment to attract a pre-eminent professor in mathematics. To beat roulette, he and Claude Shannon invented the first wearable computer. Along with innovative applications of probability theory, Thorp is also The New York Times bestselling author of “Beat the Dealer,” the first book to mathematically prove that the house advantage in blackjack could be overcome by card-counting. He also pioneered the use of quantitative investment techniques in the financial markets and has been called the “Godfather of Quants.” This exhibit provides an inspirational view of Edward O. Thorp’s boundless curiosity and intellectual drive towards “finding the edge” in science and business.
Finding the Edge: The Work and Insights of Edward O. Thorp is curated by Annette Buckley, Resarch Librarian for Business and Economics; Rebecca Imamoto, Head of Collection Strategies; and John Sisson, Research Librarian for Biological Sciences; and is designed by Allan Helmick and Sylvia Irving.
To view photos from the event, please go here.
To see video from the event, please go here.
To see the digitized version of this exhibit, please go here.
To view the "Think Like Thorp" book list flyer, please go here.
Finding the Edge: The Work and Insights of Edward O. Thorp will open on Monday, November 4, 2019 at Langson Library, Muriel Ansley Reynolds Gallery and will be on display during regular library hours until March 2020. To learn more about this exhibit, please click here.
The UCI Libraries Exhibits Program promotes the diverse holdings and scholarly and cultural value of the Libraries’ collections to the campus and community.
• To support the Libraries' Collection Enhancement Fund, please go to: http://www.uadv.uci.edu/CollectionEnhancementFund.
Current Online Exhibits
Past Exhibits
- Korean Comfort Women and the U.S. Discoveries
June 2019 | Event Photos | Brochure - UCI Law Stories: Past, Present, and Future
Spring 2019 - November 2019 | Event Photos | Brochure | Opening Night Program Video - Water in California: Issues, Impacts & Innovation
Winter 2018 | Event Photos | Brochure - Donald McKayle: Dancing for All Time
Fall 2018 - March 2019 | Event Photos | Brochure | Opening Night Program Video - Costuming the Leading Ladies of Shakespeare: From Stratford to Orange County
April 2018 - November 2018 | Event Photos | Brochure | Exhibit Checklist - Our Majestic Lands: California's National Parks
February 2017 - February 2018 | Event Photos | Brochure - Striking a Balance: Conservation and Development in Orange County
October 2016 - May 2017 | Opening Night Event | Brochure | Event Photos - UCI Stories: 50th Anniversary Oral History Project
Video Highlight | Event Photos - Ready, Set, ZOT!: UCI Athletics Since ’65
September 2015 - April 2016 | Opening Night Event | Brochure | Event Photos | The Big West Conference Video Highlight | 50 Years of UCI Athletics Video - Through the Discerning Eyes: Origins and Impact of Critical Theory at UCI
April 2015 - August 2015 | Opening night event | checklist (pdf) | Presentation | Brochure (pdf) | Event photos - From Bean to Brew: Coffee and Culture
November 2014 - March 2015 | Opening night event | checklist (pdf) | Presentation | Brochure (pdf) | Event photos - Healing U: Health Education at UCI
April 2014 - November 2014 | Opening night event | checklist (pdf) | Brochure (pdf) | Event photos - Open Air & Light: Art in Laguna Beach, 1906-1941
October 2013 - April 2014 |Opening night event | Presentation | checklist (pdf) | Brochure (pdf) | Event photos | OC Register Article - Igniting Innovation: UCI Knowledge at Work
May 2013 - October 2013 | Opening night event | event photos | checklist (pdf) | brochure (pdf) - Gold to Gigabytes: The Past, Present, And Future of Money
October 2012 - April 2013 | Opening night event | event video | event photos | checklist (pdf) | brochure (pdf) - Hope of Freedom: Project Ngoc’s Decade of Dedication
April 12 - October 2012 | Opening night event | event video | event photos | checklist (pdf) | brochure (pdf) - Discovery of a Lifetime: F. Sherwood Rowland and the Ozone Layer
November 11 - April 2012 | event video | checklist (pdf) | brochure (pdf) | event photos - Irvine: the Vision, the Plan, the Promise
May 2011 - October 2011 | presentation Low-res, Hi-res | brochure (pdf) | event photos - Puttin' on the Glitz: Hollywood’s Influence on Fashion
October 2010 - April 2011 | presentation | checklist (pdf) | brochure (pdf) | event photos - Green Evolution: Creating a Sustainable Future
May 2010 - October 2010 | presentation | checklist (pdf) | brochure (pdf) | event photos - So Simple a Beginning: 150 Years of Darwin
October 2009 - May 2010 | online exhibit | presentation | checklist (pdf) | brochure (pdf) | event photos - Shanghai's Two Faces: Cosmopolitanism and Glocalization
April 2009 - October 2009 | online exhibit | presentation: pt. 1, pt. 2 | checklist (pdf) | event photos - Immigrant Lives in “The OC” and Beyond
November 2008 - May 2009 | online exhibit | audio presentation: pt. 1, pt. 2 | checklist (pdf) - Stage to Stage: The Theatrical Work of Robert Cohen
April 2008 - November 2008 | online exhibit | audio presentation: pt. 1, pt. 2 | checklist (pdf) - California Universities Building Amistad: The UC-Cuba Initiative
November 2007 - April 2008 | checklist (pdf) - Surviving War, Surviving Peace: The Central Highlanders of Vietnam
May 2007- November 2007 | checklist (pdf) - Picture This: Five Centuries of Book Illustration
November 2006 - May 2007 | checklist (pdf) - The War Within: Dissent During Crisis in America
May 2006 - November 2006 | online exhibit | checklist (pdf) - Under Construction Indefinitely: 40 years of Designing UCI
November 2005 - May 2006 | online exhibit | checklist (pdf) - A SEAA of Memories: Our Changing Southeast Asian American Communities
June 2005 - October 2005 | checklist (pdf) - From Papyrus to Digital: UCI's Thesaurus of Ancient Greek Texts
November 2004 - May 2005 | online exhibit | checklist (pdf) - Gestures of Life: Martha Graham's Legacy Through the Lens of Barbara Morgan
May 2004 - October 2004 | checklist (pdf) - A Throw of the Dice: Artists Inspired by a Visual Text
November 2003 - April 2004 | checklist (pdf) - Building Special Collections: New Librarians Highlight Recent Acquisitions
May 2003 - October 2003 | checklist (pdf) - Beauty and Meaning: Art and Poetry in the Book Arts of Mexico
November 2002 - April 2003 | checklist (pdf) - Dissecting the Cortex: Six Decades of College of Medicine Yearbooks
Science Library - Derrida/Translating/Derrida
April 2002 - November 2002 | checklist (pdf) - Are We There Yet? Vacationing in California, 1870-1940
November 2001 - April 2002 | checklist (pdf) - Picturing Californios: An Orange County Family Photograph Album, 2001
Annis Case | checklist (pdf) - Realms of the Sacred in Daily Life: Early Written Records of Mesoamerica
March 2001 - September 2001 | online exhibit - The Legacy of Silence: A Japanese American Story
May 2000 - October 2000 - Never Stop Asking "Why?": Federick Reines A Life in Physics
January 2000 - May 2000 - To Outdistance the Page: California's Renaissance in Poetry and Printing 1950-1975
May 1999 - October 1999 - A Gardener's Dual Delight: The UCI Arboretum and The Emma Menninger Rare Book Collection
June 1999 - October 1999 Science Library - Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience
Oct 1998 - April 1999 | online exhibit - Infinite Journey: Donald McKayle's Life in Dance
May 1998 - September 1998 | checklist (pdf) - Dances Divine and Demonic: Japan's Performing Arts
Fall 1997 - From Ranchos to Real Estate: Orange County's Early Years
Winter/Spring 1997
Other Exhibits
- Abraham Trembley: A Pioneer in Developmental Biology
An exhibit of the gifts donated by Howard and Sylvia G. Lenhoff on display in the Science Library 1st floor lobby. - East Asian Languages & Literatures - Book Exhibits
- Hmong Textiles
- Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience