Archives for August 2017

August 8, 2017 - Comments Off on LAAC Book Club No. 14

LAAC Book Club No. 14

Join us for our next reading and meeting of the LAAC Book Club--where LA-area archivists and friends read and discuss publications exploring all matters archives.

The group will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 13, from 6:30-8 pm at The Faculty (707 N. Heliotrope Dr). Participants to the Book Club will be capped at 12. Please email hello@laacollective.org to reserve a spot.

We will continue our articles streak with A Labour of Love: The Affective Archives of Popular Music Culture, by Paul Long, Sarah Baker, Lauren Istvandity & Jez Collins, Archives and Records, 38:1, Spring 2017 and "Revolutionizing the Archival Record through Rap," by T-Kay Sangwand, Through the Archival Looking Glass: A Reader on Diversity and Inclusion, 2014.

Image: [Patron listening to a record in the Music Department at the Main Library], [n.d.], San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, San Francisco Public Library. Source: Calisphere.

You can access the “A Labour of Love” here and we will coordinate “Revolutionizing the Archival Record through Rap” after you RSVP.

Can’t make the meeting, but are still reading the articles? Let us know!