Stressbusters! Digital Care Package

UCLA Library wants to remind you that we're here to support your research AND your de-stressing!

Join us for live de-stress events!

Movement and Meditation 🧘

Take some time to relax, stretch, and breathe through movement and meditation.
Location: RISE Center - Lu Valle Commons
Day: Wednesday, 03/13; Wednesday, 03/20
Time: 10:00-11:00AM

Percussion Ensemble Winter Concert 🎵

The UCLA Percussion Ensemble is comprised of students performing from the ever-growing volume of percussion ensemble literature and presents one public performance each quarter.
Location: Schoenberg Hall
Day: Monday, 03/11
Time: 8:00PM
Event Website: Link

Journaling with RISE: End of Quarter Reflection 📝

Stop by the RISE Center to journal, doodle, and reflect on all the fun, sad, hard, and fulfilling experiences you’ve had this quarter. The first 5 participants will receive a free RISE Center Journal ! Feel free to bring your own journaling supplies, but we will be providing writing supplies and prompts! Drop-in anytime between 4-5pm.
Location: RISE Center - Lu Valle Commons
Day: Monday, 03/11
Time: 4:00-5:00PM

RISE Drop-In Hours 💬

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE staff! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you.
Location: RISE Center - Lu Valle Commons
Day & Time: Check RISE Website

ASC Winter Cookie and Cramming 🍪

Join ASC as we turn the James West Alumni Center into a study space. Student's are welcome to settle in and study, grab a cup of coffee and maybe even a cookie or two.
Location: James West Alumni Center
Day: Wednesday, 03/13
Time: 6PM
Event Website: Link

UCLA Symphony Winter Concert 🎶

Founded in 2002, UCLA Symphony is UCLA’s campus-wide orchestra, drawing its membership from throughout the university community and performing a full spectrum of symphonic repertoire.
Location: Schoenberg Hall
Day: Wednesday, 03/13
Time: 8PM

Residential Life: Study Break 🍕

Join us for a quick study break before final exams begin. Succulents, painting, bracelet making, and more!
Location: Sunset Village Plaza
Day: Saturday, 03/16
Time: 6:00-8:00PM

Chair Massage 💆

Feeling tense or fatigued? A few minutes of a chair massage focused on the back, neck, and shoulders can improve circulation, reduce stress and tension, and rejuvenate your spirit. Drop in for an ergonomic chair massage and let UCLA Library and UCLA Recreation help relieve your end-of-year stress!

Location: Biomedical Library 12-077 CHS, Research Commons

Thursday, March 14th 1:00-3:00pm

Location: Rosenfeld/Management Library E211 Foyer 1 and Foyer 2

Wednesday, March 13th 1:00-3:00pm

Location: Charles E. Young Research Library

Friday, March 15th 1:30-3:30pm
Tuesday, March 19th 12:00-2:00pm

PAC Therapy Dogs 🐶

De-stress by petting some furry friends! Hosted by PAC (UCLA People-Animal Connection)!

Location: Charles E. Young Research Library

Thursday, March 14th 11:00am-1:00pm

Participants must sign before participating in the event. Scan the QR code above or sign the event waiver for 3/14 here.

Monday, March 18th 11:00am-1:00pm

Participants must sign before participating in the event. Scan the QR code above or sign the event waiver for 3/18 here.

Game Day Pop-Up Handout 🎮

Need a break from finals? Brought to you by the UCLA Library Games Pop-Up, check out this handout full of pen and play games!

Get the Handout Here!

Coffee/Tea Schedule ☕️🍵

Location: Biomedical Library
Thursday, March 14th 9:00am-1:00pm
Location: Powell Library
Monday, March 18th 9:00am-1:00pm
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library
Wednesday, March 20th 3:00pm - closing

Snacks 🍿

Location: Science and Engineering Library (Boelter)
Wednesday, March 20th starting at 8:00am
Location: Geology Library
Monday, March 11th starting at 8:00am
Location: Music Library
Friday, March 15th 10:00am - 1:00 pm
Location: Arts Library
Monday, March 19th 10:00am - 1:00 pm

Origami Paper 🦢🪁

Location: At the Arts Library, Biomedical Library, Science and Engineering Library/Boelter and Geology Library, Music Library, and Powell Library
Ongoing: Week 10 and Finals Week

Bruin Bear Stickers 🧸

Location: Powell Library
Ongoing: Week 10 and Finals Week (while supplies last)

Pet rock-making kits 🪨👀

Location: Science and Engineering Library/Geology
Ongoing: Week 10 and Finals Week

Puzzles 🧩

Location: Biomedical Library and Powell Library
Ongoing: Week and Finals Week

Coloring Pages 🖍️🎨

Location: Arts Library, Biomedical Library, Science and Engineering Library/Boelter, Music Library and Powell Library
Ongoing: Week 10 and Finals Week

If you can't make these live events, we've compiled some resources for you to relax with on your own time! 😌

To enjoy all of these resources please connect to the UCLA Virtual Private Network. 🛜

As a UCLA student, you can watch these movies right now for free!

Check out the full list of video databases available through UCLA Library

Winter Films! 🎬

A Letter to Momo (2011): The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight – and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words “Dear Momo,” but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of Shio, Momo soon discovers three yokai living in her attic, a trio of mischievous spirit creatures that only she can see and who create mayhem in the tiny seaside community as she tries desperately to keep them hidden. But these funny monsters have a serious side and may hold the key to helping Momo discover what her father had been trying to tell her.

Showing Up (2023): A sculptor (Michelle Williams) preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends. A vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art & craft from beloved filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Certain Women), and with an endearing and charismatic ensemble cast including André Benjamin and Oscar-nominated actors Hong Chau and Judd Hirsch.

Do I Need This? (2023): A documentary film about consumerism, excess, and the stuff from which happiness is truly made.This quirky, relatable, and profound award-winning film delicately interweaves the filmmaker’s complicated relationship to her family possessions during the late stages of her parents’ lives, together with a journey into the homes and minds of her fellow Americans. On the surface, DO I NEED THIS is a joy ride through our excessive consumption habits, but at its core, it is a deep and genuine reflection on happiness and aging, materialism and mortality.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021): Marcel, a one inch-tall shell, lives with his grandmother Connie, the only residents of their town after their neighbors' sudden, mysterious disappearance. When a brush with fame gives him a chance at reuniting with his long-lost friends and family, Marcel's big adventure begins in this bighearted and bittersweet, delightful and moving story of finding home.

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022): When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through the multiverse.

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953): Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

Browse Kanopy

Maybe you prefer to dance the stress out?

The UCLA Music Library has created playlists... 🎵

to help you dance, energize, reflect, relax, and exercise during finals! We've also created a playlist for children (and everyone else)

Take me to the tunes!

Or maybe you're looking for some Relaxing Meadow ASMR?

Or stress relief resources from the Herb Alpert School of Music?

Are you down to the wire on an assignment and looking for support?

Here are some of our favorite Writing Instruction + Research Education resources for finals season! 💻📖

Browse all WI+RE Resources

UCLA staff and faculty believe in you and they left you some words of encouragement and advice.

Read them all here!

Screenshot of the digital notepad with positive affirmations

Color me!

From the UCLA Library Impact Report

Illustration of a student's bedroom intercut with Powell Library Main Reading Room in the light of the laptop screen by Brett Affrunti.

Color Me!

Arts Library Vintage Childhood 1970's Wonder Woman Coloring Book Pages

Download Wonder Woman Pages

Biomedical Library Special Collections Coloring Pages 🎨

Maywill Dudley illustrated several books of fairy tales for Whitman Publishing (Racine, Wisconsin) in the 1930s, as well as two activity books: Let's Read and Paint (1934) and The Toy Shop: a Cut-out Book (1935).

Milton Bradley Company (Springfield, Massachusetts), the longtime publisher of board games and activity books, used a dozen of her illustrations in Health Posters to Color and Study.

Download Health Pages

Image of two health posters. The one on the left is the cover of the coloring book featuring a cartoon girl brushing a cartoon boy's hair with the words "Health Posters to color and Study, Maxwell Dudley". The poster on the right features two girls, one with a tissue and says "Cover Your Mouth If You Cough - Sneeze"

More Health Conscious Coloring Books 🎨

Feeling artistically invigorated? Submit your own original library inspired art to the Powell Portfolio in order to be featured on UCLA Library social media

Library staff want to share their cute pets with you!

Pets of Powell 🐈

Sleepy cat 😴

Cute dog with little bows 🎀

Two cats on the kitchen counter 🧑‍🍳

A calico, a great tabby, and a white persian cat cuddled up on a blanket 🐱

A calico, a great tabby, and a white persian cat each on different levels of a cat tree 🌴🏠

Fluffy cat laying on its back with paws up 🐾

A dog enjoying a picnic! 🧺

Guinea pigs in tiny pumpkin costumes 🎃

Cat stare! 🫣

Cat comic: "Dude, why did you wake me up?" "I'm not the one that has to do work" 🥱

Live Cams!

click on the links below to watch live cams~

Koala Cam 🐨

Penguin Cam 🐧

Kitten Rescue 🐈

Jelly Fish Cam 🪼

Giant Panda Cam 🐼

Escape from Powell Library!

Find your way out of this virtual escape room! 🔑

It's the night before the beginning of Finals Week in Powell Library. Even though you're on your third cup of Stressbusters coffee, you can't stop yawning. You're about to break out the Yerba Mate and maybe take a scooter back to the Hill, but your eyelids keep getting heavier and heavier. You figure a nap can't hurt, so you curl up in the nearest chair...

When you wake up, you're alone and the library is dark. Apparently, even the echo of the midnight yell couldn't wake you. Your cell phone and laptop are both dead, and no one is present at the CLICC desk to loan you a charger. You try the doors, but they're locked! The only light in the entire library is the blue glow from the screen of the computer behind the checkout desk...

Make your escape from Powell Library!

Get lost (and then find yourself) in a good book! 📕

Poetry Therapy: Theory and Practice by Nicholas Mazza

Dr. Mazza discusses poetry therapy applications and techniques, carefully illustrating the use of poems, expressive writing, and symbolic activities for healing, education, and community service.

Read Poetry Therapy

Very Funny Ladies the New Yorkers' Women Cartoonistsby Liza Donneli

It’s no secret that most New Yorker readers flip through the magazine to look at the cartoons before they ever lay eyes on a word of the text. But what isn’t generally known is that over the decades a growing cadre of women artists have contributed to the witty, memorable cartoons that readers look forward to each week.

Read Very Funny Ladies

Cinema is a Cat by Daisuke Miao

Watching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. In Cinema Is a Cat, Miyao uses the fascinating relationship between cats and cinema to offer a uniquely appealing introduction to film studies.

Read Cinema is a Cat

Modern Asian Baking at Home by Kat Lieu

Explore new ingredients, surprising techniques, and interesting textures through lush photography and rewarding recipes that include exciting yet familiar contemporary bakes. The results are unforgettable delights like miso-mochi brownies and spicy gochujang flourless chocolate cake.

Read Modern Asian Baking

Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind by Matthew Hurley

Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? This book offers an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking.

Read Inside Jokes

My Kingdom for a Guitar by Kidi Bebey

Based on the remarkable life of Cameroonian-born writer and musician Francis Bebey, one of the best-known singer-songwriters of Africa, whose groundbreaking style merged Cameroonian makossa with classical guitar, jazz, and pop.

Read My Kingdom for a Guitar

How about a game night?

Try out some of our favorite free online games! (Including a game created by our very own librarians!) 🎮

Open Axis: The UCLA Library Video Game

ROOOM

Six Sided Streets

Escape Game: Housecleaning

Tricky Keys

Closed Circuit

Tanuki Sunset

Download this game handout!

Looking for something puzzling? (Besides your homework)

Puzzle Corner 🧩

We've brought you virtual puzzles of some of our favorite spots and favorite feline!

Winter Stressbusters puzzle

Winter Stressbusters

Sculpture Garden puzzle

Sculpture Garden

Aerial View of UCLA puzzle

Aerial View

Young Research Library Puzzle

Young Research Library

Or some cool art resources to spark your creativity?

Art Resources Recommended by UCLA Arts Library 🎨

Art21

Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists.

Visit Art 21

Turn your brain off with these videos!

Did you know you have access to a FREE meditation app?

Download the free UCLA Mindful App! 📱

Practice mindfulness meditation anywhere with the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center! Manage stress, reduce anxiety, and cultivate positivity and well being! You can also check out the RISE Holistic Healing Library to access resources without having to download an app.

UCLA Mindful App

Find the perfect study spots around Westwood to boost your focus during your study sessions!

Hammer Museum Courtyard:

Enjoy a relaxing outside environment at the Hammer Museum. Check out the beautiful architecture and green atmosphere while also boosting your studies.
10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden

With over 3,000 species of plants, this 7-acre garden has outdoor seating for reading and relaxing.
707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Espresso Profeta

Walk over to one of Westwood's coffee study spots to enjoy a calm and serene environment to help you concentrate for finals! Work hard while also enjoying great coffee and treats.
1129 Glendon Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Westwood Public Library

Looking for a change from the UCLA Library? (Our feelings aren't hurt, we promise!) Check out the Westwood Public Library.
1246 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Alfred Coffee

Focus on your studies while also enjoying a great selection of coffee and teas. The coffee shops offer great indoor seating and great food and coffee selections.
1154 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Westwood Park

Study outside at a picnic table or de-stress at the free open Play courts.
1350 S Sepulveda Blvd Los Angeles CA

Ministry of Coffee

For all coffee lovers, treat yourself by studying in a great coffee spot with great food and good vibes. This study spot offers indoor and outside seating and amazing energy to help you work even harder.
1010 Glendon Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Elysee Bakery & Cafe

Boost your studies by enjoying one of Westwood's famous coffee shops with a great outside area and a huge selection of cakes and pastries. Great place to give yourself a little treat for working hard
1099 Gayley Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024