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March 24, 2015 - Comments Off on LAAC Presents: ArchivesSpace Overview Webinar

LAAC Presents: ArchivesSpace Overview Webinar

Update: The recording of the demo will be available until the end of this year (December 2015): http://lyrasis.adobeconnect.com/p3wfb1t6435/

ArchivesSpace is a next-generation open source archives information management application designed by archivists for describing, managing, and providing access to archives, manuscripts, and digital objects.

Join ArchivesSpace Program Manager, Bradley Westbrook, as he provides an overview of some basic functionality of ArchivesSpace and answers your questions in this two hour online information session.

Date: Thursday, April 23rd 2015
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am PDT
Location: Online
Cost: Free

February 12, 2015 - Comments Off on Playboy Photo Library Tour – FULL

Playboy Photo Library Tour – FULL

We've reached the tour capacity and we are no longer accepting RSVPs. If you are interested in attending but didn't have a chance to RSVP in time, please send us an email and let us know if you would like to join the waiting list or perhaps another Playboy Photo Library tour in the future. Thank you so much for your interest!

 

The Los Angeles Archivists Collective is thrilled to announce an exclusive tour of the Playboy Photo Library in Beverly Hills on Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 6:30 pm.

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Lynne Rogers at the Playboy Club in 1965. Photo by Walt Burton, courtesy of the Playboy Photo Library.

The Playboy Photo Library collection contains over 5 million photographic images and other related assets from over 60 years of Playboy Magazine, including both published items and outtakes. The Library continues to acquire thousands of digital files from current magazine shoots each month while overseeing the digitization of film assets as requested by both internal and external users. Originally located in Chicago, the collection moved to Beverly Hills in April of 2012 as part of a company-wide relocation and consolidation. Other historical sub-collections include photos from Hugh Hefner's personal "Scrapbook" and personnel & facilities images from the famous Playboy Clubs.

The tour will be followed by an on-site happy hour (must be 21 years old to attend). Space is very limited (only 9 spots available!). Please RSVP here: http://goo.gl/forms/PBofNQVJ2P. Further details and address will be provided by email.

February 5, 2015 - Comments Off on Join the LAAC Book Club

Join the LAAC Book Club

All are invited to participate in the new LAAC Book Club, where LA-area archivists and friends read and discuss publications exploring all matters archives. Books will be selected every 4-6 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!

The group will meet on Monday, March 9, from 6:30-8 pm at Canter’s Restaurant. Participants to the Book Club will be capped at 12. Please email laacollective@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

The first book selection is The Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge

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Description: Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In The Allure of the Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into new dimensions of the past.

"A little gem of a book. A diamond, perhaps, given both its clarity and the finesse with which it’s been cut and set. It is an unmistakable classic: one of the great memoirs of the silent, day-to-day drama of research . . . Adamantine: sharp, brilliant, perfect, and created to last."—Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed (Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed)

Can’t make the meeting, but would still like to chat about the book? Send us an email or tweet #LAACBC. We’ll post discussion notes online after the meeting.

January 31, 2015 - Comments Off on Visit to LA Art Book Fair

Visit to LA Art Book Fair

Join LAAC on Sunday, February 1st for an informal visit to the LA Art Book Fair held at The Geffen Contemporary MOCA .

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“Free and open to the public, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair is a unique event for artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by over 250 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers.”

SCHEDULE
11 am - Our group will meet outside of the Fair
12 noon - We will attend the “Sex Archive Show N’ Tell” (held in Gallery E)

1 pm - We will walk to Angel City Brewery for drinks (until 3 pm)

Feel free to join us at any point in the visit!

If you can’t make it on Sunday, there are many events going on Thursday, Jan. 29-Sunday, Feb. 1. Check it out here: http://laartbookfair.net/events/