The Kathleen Burke Hale Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, photographs, and tributes spanning her life as a relief worker during World War I, as the adoptive benefactor of a French village following World War II, and as a Santa Barbara philanthropist throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

The Bayard Stockton Good Companions Radio Show Collection contains one hundred four (104) community affairs radio interviews digitized from audiocassette copies of interviews from the "Good Companions" radio show, hosted by Bayard Stockton on station KMGQ-FM Goleta. The collection includes tape index sheets for some of the interviews.

Six scrapbooks contain all thirty years of the weekly local history columns written by Mrs. Rouse for the Santa Barbara News-Press newspaper. Numbering approximately 1,500, the articles are cataloged by keywords in the Gledhill Library Subject Index. See Arrangement note for date range of articles within each scrapbook.