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One more round of applause for the 16 UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research winners! Several of these stellar scholars will present their projects Tuesday, June 22 at 1 p.m. PT. RSVP at bit.ly/lrp-21. #BruinResearch

Nearly 100 student positions some with immediate start dates are currently available! With flexible hours and competitive pay, Library jobs provide students with the opportunity to learn new skills and interact with different campus communities.

I described how curators consider collecting priorities, the current trends in UCLA collecting practices and future directions. Library Special Collections Curator Devin Fitzgerald on his work with students in Writing the Digital Archive: Old Books in New Worlds. #UCLALSC

The UCLA Library is a proud contributor to the Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute. We are delighted to highlight our very own Science librarians, Ibraheem Ali and Wynn Tranfield, who will be teaching at this year's institute from July 26th - August 5th. Register now at bit.ly/UCLA-FSCI2021

As #FairUseWeek concludes, we #FBF to 2020 when the Library hosted "Sounds Fair to Me," a game show exploring copyright cases in the music industry: ucla.in/3uDAEvx UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and UCLA School of Law faculty panelists were invited to "come on down..." and provide their expertise. #UCLAScholComm #UCLAMusicLib

"Building on the great work of FTVA staff, I will strive to deepen our connections with communities and partners to better serve the users of this incredible collection." May Hong HaDuong (MA '06) joined the Library this week as director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the largest university-held collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming. Read about her ambitious goals in this interview. Image courtesy of Ashley Kenney/Daily Bruin

The Library's Center for Oral History Research recorded a three-hour interview with Jimmy LuValle in 1986, touching on his remarkable life, career and founding of the UCLA GSA - Graduate Student Association. Access it at http://ucla.in/2ZPY0zA. #UCLALSC

You're invited to a virtual panel discussion exploring the history of the Belarusian Vyzhyvanka next Wednesday, March 3 at 1 p.m. Co-hosted with the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and moderated by UCLA Alumni Sasha Razor, the panel discussion features a keynote address by Rufina Bazlova, whose comic embroidery series viral during the 2020 Belarusian election protests.

BRUIN UNDERGRADS: Did you or your team use UCLA Library collections for a course research paper or project in the last 12 months? If so, apply for a Library Prize for Undergraduate Research by April 1 ... Monetary awards in five categories are available!

New on the Digital Library website, the Katherine Philips Edson papers includes photos of the social reformer and #suffragist who fought for women’s health and working conditions. Edson fought to secure fair labor standards in California and nationally and played a crucial role in the successful campaign to win women’s suffrage in California in 1911. She joined progressive republicans like Hiram Johnson, seen in photo two, in enacting legislation to improve social conditions ...and provide a fair minimum wage. She led social reform organizations like the Friday Morning Club, the California Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the @leagueofwomenvoters and also served as a local and federal labor official. In 1912 Edson was appointed to the California Bureau of Labor Statistics, where she investigated and lobbied against labor law violations like a loophole that forced student nurses to work over eight hours a day. She became the Executive Commissioner of the state’s Industrial Welfare Commission which enforced the minimum wage and guarded the employment rights of women and children in 1916. The minimum wage rose to sixteen dollars a week by 1920, a marked improvement for workers across the garment, canning, manufacturing, and laundry industries, among others. The minimum wage law was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1927. Her eighteen years of public service also included a federal position as industrial mediator for California and the navy, where she inspected working conditions during World War I. In 1927 she became chief of the California Division of Industrial Welfare. View the collection here or using the link in bio. http://bit.ly/ucla-phillipsedson Photo. 1: Katherine Philips Edson, portrait. Photo 2: Senator Hiram Johnson, portrait. . . . #votingrights #womenssuffrage #womenshistory #progressive #minimumwage #fightfor15

Adelbert Bartlett was a renowned commercial photographer based in Santa Monica known for his depictions of the idyllic Southern California Lifestyle and the entertainment Industry. Although he photographed the stars of the @cityofsantamonica Civic Opera Association and Hollywood actors, Bartlett also used his connections to benefit the @Near East Relief Fund. After forming to aid the survivors of the #Armenian genocide, the organization led a vast aid campaign focused on or...phans and child welfare in the region. Bartlett photographed child actor Jackie Coogan as she toured the world to promote and fundraise for the organization. Bartlett worked for the Fund in Greece, Palestine, and Syria until his death in 1966. View more of his photographs here. https://bit.ly/ucla-bartlett Photo: Bartlett, Adelbert, "Child actor Jackie Coogan with cans of condensed milk, [1924]" 1924. #santamonica #neareastrelief #humanrights #photography #historyofphotography

The Connexxus/Centro de Mujeres Collection, held by the @june_l_mazer_lesbian_archives, includes photographs, flyers, and other records that document the growth and local footprint of a pioneering Los Angeles-area lesbian organization (both its original location in West Hollywood, and its East L.A. branch). All of these materials can now be found on our new digital collections site (link in bio). . . . .... . #lgbthistory #lesbianhistory #pride #mazerarchives #adelmartinez #bunnymacculloch #junemazer See more

The @fowlermuseum Collection is new to the UCLA Library Digital Collections website. It contains global art and archeological objects from the ancient and contemporary cultures of Africa, Native and Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific. This Nigerian Egungun olode headdress depicting a hunter and Gelede mask including a motorcycle and rider by Yoruba artist Eloi Lokossou appear in the recent Intersections exhibit. They also demonstrate changing cultural conceptions of gen...der and power over time. While the first headdress reflects the revered position of hunters in Yoruba culture, Lokossou’s mask invokes Ogun, the Yoruba god of iron, to make a powerful statement about wealth, status, and modernity. Both objects reference their wearer’s ability to call upon the spirits, but the motorcycle celebrates tradition alongside innovation. View more objects here. https://bit.ly/fowler-digital-library Read more about the collections on the Fowler Museum website. https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/ Photo 1 Attributed to Adugbologe (Abeokuta, Nigeria, d. ca. 1940), Headdress (ere egungun olode) (X65-9051) Made prior to 1922 Photo 2: Lokossou, Eloi, Headdress with motorcycle and rider (ere gelede) (X2006-5-1) Early 1990s . . . . #yoruba #nigeria #africanhistory #arthistory

Independent bookstores have dotted Los Angeles County since at least the close of the 19th century, when brothers J.W. and Robert A. Fowler opened their Fowler Brothers Bookstore in 1888. Six years later, railroad agent and photographer Adam Clark Vroman opened his own shop (@vromansbookstore) in Pasadena. Both carried wide ranging inventories, with attached stationary stores, but scores of smaller bookstores and lending libraries with specific focuses blossomed across the co...unty over the next century. . Multilingual bookstores have been a steady presence throughout the city's history, and Echo Park's Librería México (slide 2) continued this tradition for decades until its closing in 2015. . Dr. Alfred Ligon opened the Aquarius Bookshop in 1941, in South Central Los Angeles. The following year he met Bernice Goodwin (slide 1, with Alfred), a fellow lover of esoteric and African diasporic literature, and the two married. Together they oversaw the shop's growth into a landmark of Black intellectual and spiritual culture on the West Coast, hosting radical symposia and operating an adjoining Spiritual Center. At the time of the shop's destruction in 1992 it was the country's oldest continually operating Black bookstore. An extensive interview with Alfred can be found on the UCLA Center for Oral History Research's site, and the Ligons' papers now reside in @csudhlib. . Douglas Aircraft engineers Stan Madson and Phil Thompson opened their Bodhi Tree Bookstore in 1970, as the area's first source for literature covering every aspect of what would later be called the "New Age" movement. Buddhists, macrobiotic food enthusiasts, and Wicca newcomers famous and otherwise frequented the shop for four decades, until the store's closing. . Foot traffic is essential to the survival of any local bookstore. Fowler Bros. closed in 1994 after downtown subway development's disruption of pedestrian flows accelerated a gradual decline, and now Vroman's holds the title of Southern CA's oldest independent bookstore. COVID represents a new, particularly intense crisis, though, and supporting these family-run shops has never been more important. #savevromans #independentbookstore

Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (PAPA) emerged from his dissatisfaction with commercial music, the alienating concessions that its production demanded, and the lack of investment by the music industry in the Black communities that provided its artistic foundation. PAPA blossomed through the 1960s and 70s into something bigger than an ensemble, thougha cultural support system for South Central Los Angeles communities abandoned by the social and educational ser...vices of the city at large. PAPA performances included food drives, creative workshops with a wide range of local organizations (Watts Writers' Workshop, the Mafundi Institute, the Compton Communicative Arts Academy), and a radical sound all its own. Tapscott, his son-in-law Michael Dett and various PAPA members recorded almost all of these local performances, and this vast collection of tapes now comprises UCLA Library Special Collections' Horace Tapscott Collection. Music journalist and photographer Mark Weber documented much of PAPA's local activity as well, and the photos above (and more) can be found in UCLA's Mark Weber Jazz Collection (http://bit.ly/webjazz). . The Arkestra provided an experimental space for local and international musical icons like #DwightTrible, #ArthurBlythe, #NateMorgan, #AdeleSebastian (slide 4, far left), and #PhilRanelin over the years. Some PAPA elders continue to perform with the group, but a new generation of musicians (led by drummer Mekala Session) are bringing new vibrancy to the Ark's compositions and live presence. This month, after three years of recording and performing across Los Angeles with this revamped ensemble, members of the Ark founded a record label: The Village. Its first releases include the new Ark's arrangement of two PAPA standards, as well as an archival recording of a 1989 performance by Tapscott & longtime Ark member Michael Session. Hear a sample above, and take a brief dip into the history of one of the largest, most influential community arts movements of the period. . . . . . #panafrikanpeoplesarkestra #horacetapscott #michaelsession #communityarts #wattswritersworkshop #ugmaa #freejazz See more

Kenneth Rexroth exemplified the anarchist resistance culture of the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat poetry movement, as both an anti-establishment literary icon and lifelong political activist. Born in South Bend Indiana in 1905, Rexroth was an almost completely self-educated intellectual, who took influence from Buddhism, ecology, mysticism, anarchism, pacifism, and movements for sexual liberation. Rexroth actively participated in numerous anarchist organizations, whi...ch did not advocate for chaos but rather for a socialist society built on principles of freedom, equality, and direct democracy using nonelectoral means. In 1927 he joined the Industrial Workers of the World and contributed to its newspaper. During World War II he helped Japanese Americans evade internment camps. In 1946 he founded the Libertarian Circle alongside other anarchist pacifists and bohemians. At the same time, his influential poetry collections In What Hour (1940) and The Phoenix and the Tortoise (1944) explored nature, eroticism, pacifism and the transcendent power of love in a straightforward style based on the rhythms of natural speech. Rexroth organized the famous Six Gallery reading on October 7, 1955, where Alan Ginsberg first read Howl, and later served as a defense witness at the obscenity trial concerning the event. Bohemian anarchists like Rexroth emphasized sexual liberation, ecology, and creativity, and thus transformed the anarchist movements that expanded in the coming decades. Throughout his life, Rexroth supported the Civil Rights, feminist, and anti-war movements while also traveling the world and winning numerous awards including the Copernicus Award from the Academy of American Poets in 1975 and the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1977. He spent many of his final years translating Japanese and Chinese women poets and passed away in 1982. View more photos of Rexroth and related documents here. https://bit.ly/ucla-rexroth @ucla_libraryspecialcollections Photo 1: Kenneth Rexroth, candid snapshot, circa 1955 Photo 2: Kenneth Rexroth seated at desk in his office/library, circa 1980 #anarchism #poetry #anarchisthistory #anarchy #beatpoetry

Film poster for the Soviet production, Punto Punto Coma (dir. Alexandr Mitta) by Pedro Fernández Franco, 1973. Carteles de Cine collection, Cinemateca de Cuba/Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (International Digital Ephemera Project): http://idep.library.ucla.edu/cuba/document/punto-punto-coma

In the mid twentieth century, bisexuality and homosexuality were an open secret in many Hollywood circles. Celebrities like Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro and William Haines dominated the film industry. Born in the thriving gay metropolis of Berlin, Marlene Dietrich loved people of multiple genders. In the early 1940s, Dietrich fell in love with Mercedes de Acosta, a poet and playwright known for her numerous lesbian relationships with Hollywood stars. In the 1930s an...d 40s she founded a sewing circle made up of her bisexual and lesbian friends. The @nytimes described it as made up of Hollywood women who were either bisexual, committed to lesbianism, or just visiting. They met at one another’s houses for lunch, conversation and possibilities. Fellow sewing circle member actress Tallulah Bankhead was romantically involved with Hollywood stars including Libby Holman, Billie Holiday, Dietrich, Garbo, and Mercedes de Acosta. View more photos of their Hollywood milieu in the Los Angeles Daily News Negatives collection. http://bit.ly/ucla-ladailynews After the dawn of the Gay liberation movement in the early 1970s, bisexual people gained unprecedented freedom to love whoever they chose. However, they still face significant stigma from people of all sexual orientations who stereotype them as indecisive or hypersexual or deny that bisexuality is a genuine sexual orientation. Bisexual people formed organizations like the Bay Area Bisexual Network and @ambisocial to build community and combat discrimination. Photo 1: Actress Marlene Dietrich exiting airplane in Los Angeles, Calif. after entertaining troops during World War II August 8, 1946 Los Angeles Daily News Negatives Photo 2: Actress Tallulah Bankhead seated at dressing room mirror with playwriter James Leo Herlihy, Calif., 1958 November 21, 1958 Los Angeles Times Photograph Collection . . . . . #bidayofvisibility. #bivisibility #bierasure #biphobia #bisexualhistory #lgbt #lgbthistory #bisexualawarenessweek #bisexual #bisexualerasure

As fires and #covid_19 ravage the West Coast, Bonnie Cashin’s futuristic environmental hazard suit designs seem prescient. Cashin maintained an interest in innovative and visionary fashion throughout her life, and even consulted with noted futurist Buckminster Fuller when she established the Innovative Design Fund in 1979. The notes on these illustrations address how protective clothing could help humans adapt to climate change. As Cashin described the first garment, If our... earth continues rocketing toward complete pollution, we may, in order to survive each have to wear a sort of life-support suit. This personal environmental habitat which would never be doffed except in specially built large self-support way-stations. The exterior of this body container would be of a material, thin, transparent * weightless with combat properties which I am sure Nasa can develop. Underneath is a 2nd skin garment in which the individual might be able to express some personal aesthetic . . . . #costumedesign #fashion #sustainablefashion #californiafires #wildfires #oregonfires #sustainable #sustainability #climatechange #globalwarming #wearamask