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February 28, 2017 - Comments Off on Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection – Behind the Scenes Tour

Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection – Behind the Scenes Tour

Join Senior Librarian Christina Rice for a guided tour of the Los Angeles Public Library's archive of more than 3 million historic photos. Rice will give an overview of the collection, including its history, what collections comprise the archive, and the challenges of overseeing an archival collection in a public library setting.  

Saturday, April 1
11am
LAPL downtown branch

15 spots available!
Please RSVP here
Confirmation, directions, and parking information will be emailed prior to the tour.

May 2, 2016 - Comments Off on LAAC Book Club No. 8

LAAC Book Club No. 8

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

Our next book selection is The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memories in the Americas by Diana Taylor

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Publisher’s Description: In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory—conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances—offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice.

The group will meet on Wednesday, June 29, from 6:30-8 pm at Alcove Cafe & Bakery (1929 Hillhurst Ave). Participants to the Book Club will be capped at 12. Please email laacollective@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

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

May 2, 2016 - Comments Off on Archaeology of Moving Image Media Workshop

Archaeology of Moving Image Media Workshop

ARCHAEOLOGY OF MOVING IMAGE MEDIA WORKSHOP FLYER (1)

Please join us at the Academy's Pickford Center of Motion Picture Study on Saturday, May 21.

This free workshop will feature presentations and demonstrations that will introduce students and professional archivists/librarians to the basics of analogue and digital moving image media technology, with a special emphasis on film. The first part of the workshop will focus on the challenges of managing large and complex film collections with a case study presentation on the Academy Film Archive’s Packard Humanities Institute Collection of film advertisements, which will conclude with an opportunity to practice film repairs. Following the lunch break, the focus will be on identification and preservation of video tape format, including a discussion on tape deterioration, best storage practices, and digitization policies. This will lead into a brief section on digital assets, focusing on the differences between moving image digital assets and non-moving image digital assets.

Spaces are limited. Please RSVP by May 18th to aespasande@oscars.org.

April 4, 2016 - Comments Off on Academy Library Tour

Academy Library Tour

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Streisand Backstage, 1969, Academy Awards Show photographs, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Please join the Los Angeles Archivists Collective for a tour of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Margaret Herrick Library on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 3:30 pm.

The Margaret Herrick Library is a world-renowned, non-circulating reference and research collection devoted to the history and development of the motion picture as an art form and an industry. Established in 1928, a year after the Academy was founded, the library moved to its current Beverly Hills location in 1991. Its holdings include over 30,000 books, 3000 periodical titles, 10 million photographs, 42,000 posters, 15,000 scripts, and 1900 Special Collections that document the activities of companies and organizations as well as the careers of individuals who have made a significant contribution to the film industry. Special Collections include unique items such as production records, correspondence, storyboards, contracts, scrapbooks, costume and set drawings and much more.

To attend, please RSVP here. Parking instructions will be provided to those who RSVP.

March 21, 2016 - Comments Off on Book Club No. 7

Book Club No. 7

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Join us for our seventh reading and meeting of the LAAC Book Club — where LA-area archivists and friends read and discuss publications exploring all matters archives. Books are selected every 6 weeks by the group, and may cover topics such as archival theory and practice, historical understandings, current issues and trends in information science, informational technologies, etc....we’re open to suggestions!

Our next book selection is The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault.

Publisher's Description: With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into the seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and saw analogies between the stars in the heaven and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrariness of our received truths.

The group will meet on Wednesday, May 4, from 6:30-8pm at Canter’s Deli (419 N. Fairfax). Participants to the Book Club will be capped at 12. Please email hello@laacollective.org to reserve a spot.

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