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Digital Stressbusters!

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!

Virtual Group Fitness: Yoga

  • Location: Zoom
  • Time: 5:00 - 6:00PM
  • Day: Monday, 03/13

TranscenDance Class

  • Sign up
  • Location: JWC Pyramid Room
  • Time: 3:45-4:45pm
  • Day: Monday, 03/13

The Final Squeeze (SHEP x RISE)

  • Location: CAPS Large Conference Room in the John Wooden West CAPS Office
  • Time: 4:00 pm
  • Day: Tuesday, 03/14

ASC Cookies & Cramming

  • Location: James West Alumni Center
  • Time: 6:00 PM
  • Day: Wednesday, 03/15

Restorative Yoga & Soundbath for Stress Relief (Day 1)

  • Sign-Up
  • Location: Dynasty Rm JWC
  • Time: 4:00-5:15pm,
  • Day: Wednesday, 03/15

LGBTQ+ CRC: Movie Night and Discussion – Parting Glances (1986)

  • Location: LGBTQ CRC
  • Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
  • Day: Thursday, 03/16

Virtual Group Fitness: Dance Cardio & Conditioning

  • Location: Zoom
  • Time: 12:10 - 12:50PM
  • Day: Friday, 03/17

Virtual Group Fitness: Deep Stretching & Relaxation

  • Location: Zoom
  • Time: 4:00 - 5:00PM

Restorative Yoga & Soundbath for Stress Relief (Day 2)

  • Sign-Up
  • Location: Pyramid Rm, JWC
  • Time: 7:00-8:00pm
  • Day: Friday, 03/17

Residential Life: Study Break

  • Time: 6-8 PM
  • Location: Sunset Village, The Hill
  • Day: Saturday, 03/18

Origami, coloring, puzzles

  • Locations: Science and Engineering Library, Biomedical Library, Arts Library, Music Library, Powell Library
  • Time: Open hours
  • Day: Monday, 3/13 - Sunday, 3/19

Origami and pet rock making

  • Location: Geology Library
  • Time: Open hours
  • Day: Monday, 3/13 - Sunday, 3/19
Pet Rock Adoption and Papercraft with a few decorative rocks on the table.

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

  • Winter Movies
  • UCLA Music Library playlists
  • Writing Instruction + Research Education resources for finals
  • Positive affirmations
  • Library coloring pages
  • Pets of Powell
  • Escape from Powell! (a virtual escape room)
  • Book recs
  • Free games
  • Puzzle corner
  • Art Library recs
  • Relaxing YouTube videos
  • UCLA Mindful app

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!

Wonderful Movies for the Winter

  • Linda Linda Linda (2005): A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.
  • Snowpiercer (2013): In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
  • Broker (2022): Boxes are left out for people to anonymously drop off their unwanted babies.
  • House of Hummingbird: Eun-hee is a curious 14-year-old growing up in a country on the brink of enormous change. Ignored and dejected by her family, Eun-hee finds her escape roaming her neighborhood with her best friend, experiencing all that life has to offer.
  • A Man Called Ove (2015): Ove, an ill tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors. Based on the bestselling novel.
  • Columbus (2017): Casey lives with her mother in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of modernism. Jin, a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and the architecture that surrounds them.

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)

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?

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

Screenshot of the digital notepad with positive affirmations

Color me!

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

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.

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

Two cats playing with a hair clip.
Two guinea pigs getting ready for Valentine's Day!
Three French Bulldogs snuggled on a couch.
Two cats sharing a bed.
A dog having fun in the sun.
Two cats napping together.
A dog and cat snuggled in bed together.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Einstein Atomized Science Cartoons by Sidney Harris

Sidney Harris, acclaimed Dean of Scientific Humor, presents his most recent collection of cartoons. No scientific or technical topic is safe from the scope of his humor. 

The Original Bambi: The Story of Life in the Forest by Felix Salten

A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten's celebrated novel Bambi -the original source of the beloved story Most of us think we know the story of Bambi - but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. F

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.

How about a game night?

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

Looking for something puzzling? (Besides your homework)

Puzzle Corner

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

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.

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.

Ok, Bruins! You've GOT THIS! Go forth, knock out those finals, and do some SERIOUS de-stressing!