The Los Angeles Archivists Collective and ARLIS/NA Southern California Chapter kindly request donations for our online silent auction to be held on the LAAC’s Instagram!

The auction items will become available from Sunday, December 11 to Thursday, December 15, 2016. We are accepting books, catalogs, posters, photographs, and other merchandise from local institutions, as well as handmade crafts.

Auction planned 1963, Valley Times Collection photographs, Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection

All proceeds will be disbursed to LAAC and ARLIS/NA-SC to support memberships, professional development, travel awards, and/or other special initiatives of the organizations.

To donate an item for our silent auction, please complete the donation form and email an image of the item (jpeg, maximum 2 MB) to hello@laacollective.org by Friday, December 9, 2016. Please be sure to indicate “Silent Auction” in the subject line and the title of your donation in the email message.

All shipped donations must be received by Monday, December 12th, 2016.

Ship to:
Jennifer Kishi / Los Angeles Archivists Collective
Sterling Ruby Studio
4900 S. Soto Street
Vernon, CA 90058

If you plan to bring your item to the LAAC + ARLIS/NA-SC Holiday Party, please arrive early and drop off the items no later than 7:30 PM.

We will send out reminders as the deadline approaches. Thank you and we hope to see you at our holiday party (details below)!

LAAC + ARLIS/NA SC 2016 Holiday Gathering
Saturday, December 17, 2016
7-10pm
The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th Street
Please RSVP by December 8, 2016

Questions? Email us at hello@laacollective.org

As part of the programming for the LAAC Holiday Gathering on Dec. 17 at the Velaslavasay Panorama, we hope to include a screening of local collections' audio and visual content.

We'd like to feature a variety of local collections in this screening. We are looking for any audio and visual content that features Los Angeles and/or is holiday themed.

Beach goers with discarded Christmas tree on shoreline with sailboats in background at Marina del Rey, Calif., 1973, Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, UCLA Library Special Collections

Your submission should be:

-In a digital format, such as mp4, and can be digitized or born digital

-2 to 7 minutes long

-Available and open for viewing at this free event. Your institution should have rights to present the material. LAAC will not claim rights or ownership over any of the materials and only intends to present the material at this one time event.

Your submission should include the following information:

-Your name

-Name of contributing institution (we will create a program listing submissions)

-Title of piece

-Creator

-Date of creation/publication

-Original format

-Short description

Please email us hello@laacollective.org with questions and to submit your content.

Last day to submit content is Monday, December 12.