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University of Southern Californias Archival Research Center launches Web site



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A new Web site featuring a wide array of images and materials from the University of Southern California?s Archival Research Center is now live at <http://www.usc.edu/arc>http<http://www.usc.edu/arc>://www.usc.edu/arc The site serves as a digital gateway to hundreds of archives owned and housed at other libraries, museums and institutions throughout the region. It also includes a comprehensive list of archival materials relating to Southern California that are housed at USC.

The Web site includes links to three significant electronic resources:
· Los Angeles as Subject, a directory of nearly 200 archival resources that grew out of a Getty Research Institute project in which USC was a partner institution. The database was relocated to USC from the Getty in 2000 and will continue to grow as additional repositories are added and as the depth of information about each repository increases. · Los Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database, an integrated version of the two leading bibliographies of resources related to Los Angeles. The 1973 Los Angeles and Its Environs in the Twentieth Century: A Bibliography of a Metropolis, by USC Distinguished Professor Emeritus Doyce Nunis, along with its 1996 sequel, edited by Los Angeles City Archivist Hynda Rudd, are the most comprehensive and useful print bibliographies yet assembled for the study of Los Angeles. In partnership with the Los Angeles City Historical Society, USC has brought these two volumes together in one Web-accessible edition of approximately 15,000 titles. USC has also begun to add new entries to update the Web edition through the 1990s and into the 21st century. · The Digital Archive provides access to digital images of photographs, maps, manuscripts, records, texts and a growing number of other objects in USC and its partners? collections, with a particular emphasis on materials related to Southern California. Nearly 70,000 objects exist in the digital archive at present, and approximately 14,000 of these, mostly photographs, are currently available to the public. New collections are being added continuously, such as coverage from the historic Southern California newspaper El Clamor Publico, which was published in Los Angeles between 1851 and 1879.

Highlights of USC?s collections include:

·       American Literature Collection numbering some 65,000 books;
· Boeckmann Collection for Iberian and Latin American Studies, distinctive in its geographical focus, its historical and chronological coverage, and the interdisciplinary and multilingual nature of its holdings; · the East Asian and Korean Heritage libraries, with 10,000 documents and 1,300 photographs related to the ?first wave? Korean-American community in the United States, and a collection of 182 pre-20th century, color maps of Korea and China; · Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, one of the most significant archives documenting German-Jewish and other exiles in Southern California prior to, during and after World War II; · the USC Regional History Collection?s extensive holdings, including the Hearst Collection of clippings and more than one million photographs from 1930 to 1961 and bound volumes of the Evening Express, 1872-1899; the papers of Gov. Edmund ?Jerry? Brown Jr.; the California Historical Society Collection of 23,000 photographs that document the development of Los Angeles between 1860 and 1960; the Christopher Commission archive detailing the investigation into the 1992 Los Angeles riots; and the Southern California Social Welfare Archives; and · the archives of the School of Cinema-Television, the largest collection of their kind in the world, including the David L. Wolper Archives, the Archive of Film and Television Music and the Louis B. Mayer Film and Television Center. · the USC University Archives includes material documenting the history and growth of the University of Southern California: monographs (including faculty publications), manuscripts, USC periodicals and newspapers, ephemera, an extensive collection of photographic images, disc and tape recordings.

Partner institutions include the Automobile Club of Southern California, the California Historical Society, the California State Library, the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, the Huntington Library and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The research center also has a wide-ranging agreement with the city of Los Angeles that clears the way for extensive cooperation in the digitization and wide distribution of the city?s voluminous records.

The Archival Research Center is part of USC?s Information Services Division and is housed in the newly renovated Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.

Contact:    JoEllen Williamson
                (213) 821-2899

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