July 11, 2018 - Comments Off on LAAC Summer Meet-Up
“The Story,” http://idlehourbar.com/
Idle Hour
4824 N Vineland Ave, Los Angeles CA 91601
Street parking and only a 5 minute walk from the Metro Red Line North Hollywood Station.
Happy hour menu until 7 pm.
Please RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1867609260209393/
July 3, 2018 - Comments Off on LAAC Book Club No. 17
We will be reading the book, Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos.
Excerpt: The story of the Vivian Maier phenomenon has been told so many times that it can now be reduced to a few short phrases:
Her storage lockers went into arrears.
A young man named John Maloof bought a box of her negatives.
He googled her name and found that she had died a few days earlier.
He discovered the woman known today as the mysterious nanny street photographer.
But rarely is a story as simple as the filtered- down version that results from multiple retellings. Each link in the chain of the Vivian Maier story branches to reveal a much more complex and nuanced saga. Our current lack of understanding of this woman and her passion for photography stems from oversimplifications of her emergence and packaged versions of the story. Ethical issues have largely been glossed over in favor of a heroic narrative that benefits the people who have been selling her work. We are told that they have saved Vivian Maier from oblivion and have allowed us to own pieces of her legacy.
Let us know if you can’t get a copy of the book, we can help get you one.
Can’t make the meeting, but are still reading the articles? Let us know!
July 3, 2018 - Comments Off on 3rd Archaeology of Moving Image Media Workshop
Join us for a free full-day program of lectures and hands-on workshops that will introduce students and professionals of the Information Studies field, collectors, scholars, filmmakers, cinephiles and the general public to aspects of moving image history, technology and preservation. The program will close with the 7:00 p.m. screening of Celluloid Man (2012), with filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur in attendance.
Courtesy breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided.
Info./RSVP.: aespasande@oscars.org | (310) 247-3000 x 1165
May 29, 2018 - Comments Off on Tour of William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
RSVP is now full, thank you!
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, which is administered by UCLA’s Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, is located on a historic, five-acre property in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. The rare book and manuscript library specializes in the study of England and the Continent from the Tudor period through the long eighteenth century. Other subject strengths include Oscar Wilde, book arts, and Montana and the West. The Clark is open to students, professors, and scholars throughout the world and serves as the research laboratory for a distinguished array of fellows working either in early modern studies or the fin-de-siècle world of Oscar Wilde.
April 23, 2018 - Comments Off on Tour of Payson Library at Pepperdine University
Image courtesy of Pepperdine Libraries
Join us for a tour of the newly renovated Payson Library at Pepperdine University in beautiful Malibu on Tuesday, May 8 at 3 pm. Please RSVP here.
Payson Library at Pepperdine University reopened last fall after a 15-month, $22.4 million renovation. Influenced by Spanish Revival architecture, the new building design honors tradition while addressing 21st-century needs for digital integration and flexibility to accommodate diverse learning styles. The new additions range from a high-tech makerspace to expanded study areas that seamlessly integrate traditional setups with more informal seating configurations. Responding to environmental concerns, motion-sensor LED lighting reduces power usage, as does a NEH grant-funded sustainable preservation and storage system for Special Collections and Archives.
The service goals of openness and accessibility also provided key inspiration for the design. "The abundant use of glass throughout the building helps showcase the Malibu coastline," says Dean of Libraries Mark Roosa, "as well as the intellectual work that takes place in spaces such as the Digital Learning Lab and archival processing areas." Since reopening, Payson Library has nearly doubled its daily gate count and now draws over 3,000 people a day.
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