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July 3, 2018 - Comments Off on **DEADLINE EXTENDED** Call for Pitches- Acid Free

**DEADLINE EXTENDED** Call for Pitches- Acid Free

ISSUE 8: SEX

Sex Explained! 1926 advertisement via Tom Simpson https://www.flickr.com/photos/randar/19757541235/

Acid Free, the online quarterly magazine of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, is welcoming contributions for its upcoming issue. Acid Free seeks to be a smart, complicated, non-academic forum for a variety of voices and issues in our field, to ground archivists locally and regionally while also keeping an eye toward larger conversations and landscapes.

The theme of our September 2018 issue will be SEX, which can be broadly interpreted through an archival lens. Possible topics may include: sexual and reproductive health; documenting the AIDS crisis; sex discrimination; or other takes on the theme. Articles can highlight documents, collections, or exhibitions; explore local landmarks; or address theme-related subjects and issues in the profession.

Pitch us your idea by telling us in a few sentences what your article is about and how it relates to SEX and archives. Please keep in mind our submission guidelines* and check out current and past issues of Acid Free for examples.

Pitches will now be accepted through **July 20** at: acidfree@laacollective.org. 

Thanks from the Acid Free team.

*Articles can be any length, but we recommend keeping 1,000-2,000 words with captioned images in .jpg format.

July 3, 2018 - Comments Off on LAAC Book Club No. 17

LAAC Book Club No. 17

8/29/2018, 6:30-8pm

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

The group will meet on Wednesday, August 29, 2018, from 6:30-8 pm at Alcove Cafe (1929 Hillhurst Ave, Los Angeles 90027). Participants to the Book Club will be capped at 12. Please email hello@laacollective.org to reserve a spot.

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

3rd Archaeology of Moving Image Media Workshop

Saturday, July 14, 9 AM - 10 PM

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

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May 29, 2018 - Comments Off on LAAC Summer Conference Scholarship Opportunity

LAAC Summer Conference Scholarship Opportunity

Photo by Sylvia Yang on Unsplash

Need conference funding assistance? LAAC is happy to announce that we will be providing summer conference scholarships for one professional (up to $330*) and two students (up to $150 each*).

Requirements: Must indicate need for funding via application form and must be able to prepare post-conference report, to be posted either on our website or Acid Free.

Deadline for applications: Friday, June 15, 2018

Scholarship winners will be notified by Friday, June 22, 2018. Conference scholarship committee will be made up of two LAAC Steering Committee members and two Subcommittee members. Winners will be reimbursed for conference registration via Venmo or Paypal.

*Based on Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting early-bird registration cost

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May 29, 2018 - Comments Off on Tour of William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Tour of William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Join us for a tour of the recently renovated Clark Library on July 11 at 3 pm.

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.