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June 13, 2016 - Comments Off on LAAC Movie Night

LAAC Movie Night

In collaboration with our friends at LACA, we are excited to bring you a screening of Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, a 2008 documentary by Jon Ronson featuring Kubrick's vast personal collection of memorabilia related to his feature films.

Stanley Kubrick Archives

Image credit: Stanley Kubrick Archives

Monday, July 11, 7:30 - 9:30 pm

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
2245 E. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Drinks and snacks will be for sale, proceeds benefit LAAC.

May 19, 2016 - Comments Off on Conversations in the Park: Advocating for Yourself in the Workplace

Conversations in the Park: Advocating for Yourself in the Workplace

This summer, join your peers and special guest speakers for "Conversations in the Park" - a series of talks in our lovely city parks, brought to you by the LAAC Subcommittee on Community Outreach and Advocacy. Bring snacks!

Conversations in the Park flier - updated

 

We're pleased to kick off our series with a conversation about advocating for yourself in the workplace. Join us in downtown's spacious Grand Park for discussions of salary negotiation, hiring practices, maintaining productive relationships with supervisors, and balancing professional advancement with non-work interests and responsibilities. With special guests Nancy Martiz (Benefit Partner, USC Human Resources), Shilpa Rele (Digital Program Librarian at Loyola Marymount), and Charmaine Sello (Community Library Manager of Sorenson Library).

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.