Kudos
Tuffy the cat, Nov. 30, 1947, Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
A roundup of accomplishments and news from Los Angeles-area archivists and repositories.
Kenn Bicknell
Kenn Bicknell, Digital Resources Librarian for LA Metro, was selected as a member of Collective Wisdom: Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAM) Conference Exchange.
Ariel Schudson
Ariel Schudson curated “Commercial Value” a screening of 16mm works from the David Stern Collection at the Echo Park Film Center.
T-Kay Sangwand
UCLA Digital Library Program Librarian T-Kay Sangwand received a DPLA + DLF Cross-Pollinator Travel Grant to attend DPLAfest 2016.
Jessica Gambling
Jessica Gambling, Archivist, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, moderated a panel on institutional archivists at the recent Society of California Archivists Annual General Meeting in Santa Rosa.
Pacifica Radio Archives was selected as a National Digital Stewardship Residency host site.
UC Riverside, along with two other universities, was awarded a grant for the Documenting the Now project focused on social media archiving.
Roderick Crooks & UCLA Digital Humanities Students
Roderic Crooks, along with other UCLA Digital Humanities students, received the ARLIS/NA Art Research Award for the “Experiments with the Getty’s Provenance Data” project.
Simone Fujita & Ziba Perez Zehdar
Simone Fujita, Art Center College of Design Library, and Ziba Perez Zehdar, Long Beach Public Library, were on a Zine Archiving panel as part of the LA Zine Fest.
UCLA’s Clark Library received a CLIR grant to digitize 17th and 18th century manuscripts.
Joanna Chen Cham
Joanna Chen Cham and USC Libraries launched a Taiwanese American Digital Archiving initiative.
Mario Ramirez
UCLA Ph.D. student Mario Ramirez’s article “Being Assumed Not to Be: A Critique of Whiteness as an Archival Imperative” appeared in latest issue of The American Archivist.
Noah Geraci & Michelle Caswell
LAAC-er Noah Geraci and Advisory Board member Michelle Caswell published “Developing a Typology of Human Rights Records” in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies.
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