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Making knowledge accessible
The University of Southern California is among a select number of academic institutions on which the nation depends for the continuous creation of newknowledge and technology, and ranks among the top ten private universities insponsored research. By anticipating USC’s research needs and providing innovativetools to address them, the Information Services division — through its UniversityLibraries — enhances the university’s position as a global center of intellectual activity.
Toward that end, USC Information Services has launched the ArchivalResearch Center, founded on the university’s growing collections of primary materials — a unique array of research resources,many of which relate to the past,present and future of Los Angeles and Southern California.These collections arelocated in various repositories throughout USC, but they are increasingly beingbrought together digitally and administratively under the auspices of the researchcenter.The enormous depth and range of these materials — along with additionalprimary resources that are being acquired — have considerable potential to supportinterdisciplinary research across the university, and beyond its campuses.
In its new home in the beautifully refurbished Edward L.Doheny Jr.MemorialLibrary, the research center also will serve as a central gathering place for researchand informal scholarly exchange.Visiting fellowships, guest speakers, exhibitionsand seminars at the research center will establish Doheny Library as an invaluableintellectual resource for those with a scholarly interest in Los Angeles and its environs — or in the vast resources at USC not related to the region that also area part of the research center’s holdings.
Digital gateway
In the digital age, a major research university must not only expand its own collections of primary materials, but also extend the availability of such materialsworldwide through the Internet.To address this goal, the research center has builta Web site (www.usc.edu/arc) that will serve as a central access point to hundredsof archives owned and housed at other libraries,museums and institutions throughoutthe region.The site also includes a comprehensive list of archival materials relatingto Southern California that are housed at USC.
Three growing resources, all linked to the USC research center, provide increasing access to original and secondary materials related to Los Angeles andSouthern California.The first of these is called Los Angeles as Subject, a directoryof nearly archival resources that grew out of a Getty Research Institute projectin which USC was a partner institution.The directory was relocated to USC fromthe Getty in and will continue to grow as additional repositories are addedand as the depth of information about each repository increases.
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Highlights of the USC collections
American Literature Collection/Rare Book Collection
Numbering some , volumes, this author-based collection of North Americanwriting emphasizes the period from to . Significant holdings includeHamlin Garland’s library and papers, including his correspondence with HenryJames,Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman.
Highlights of the rare book collection — the oldest of its kind in Los Angeles— are early editions of works by Lewis Carroll, a first edition of Audubon’s Birdsof America and Christopher Columbus’ account of his discovery of the NewWorld known as The Columbus Letter.
Boeckmann Collection for Iberian and Latin American Studies
Established in , the Boeckmann materials include an ,-volume donationfrom Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Boeckmann II, as well as several distinguished butsmaller archival collections, such as the Luis Andres Murillo Cervantes Collection,the Radell and Lorente Cuban and Cuban Exiles Studies Collections, and theCentral American Research Institute Collection.
East Asian and Korean Heritage libraries
The Korean Heritage Library, housed within USC’s East Asian Library, has gainedinternational stature for its strong research collection.The Korean American DigitalArchive includes more than , documents and more than , photographsrelated to the “first wave” Korean-American community in the United States.Other East Asian holdings include a map collection of pre-th century mapsand extensive materials on the Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
Feuchtwanger Memorial Library
The Feuchtwanger Library comprises the most significant archive documentingGerman Jewish and other exiles in Southern California prior to, during and after World War II.The archive includes Lion Feuchtwanger’s personal and businesscorrespondence, a book collection, reviews of his works, photographs and otherpersonal artifacts.
Regional History Collection
Among the USC Regional History Collection’s extensive holdings are the HearstCollection of more than one million photographs, dating to the early th century,as well as tens of thousands of clippings and bound volumes of the Los AngelesExaminer from to ; the Stone Collection on the assassination of Robert F.Kennedy; the California Historical Society Collection of , photographs that document the development of Los Angeles between and ; and theChristopher Commission archive detailing the investigation into the LosAngeles riots.
The second resource, the Los Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database(LACBD), is an integrated version of the two leading bibliographies of resources related to Los Angeles.The Los Angeles and Its Environs in the Twentieth Century:A Bibliography of a Metropolis, by USC Distinguished Professor Emeritus DoyceNunis, along with its sequel, edited by Los Angeles City Archivist HyndaRudd, are the most comprehensive and useful print bibliographies yet assembled for the study of Los Angeles. In partnership with the Los Angeles CityHistorical Society, USC has brought these two volumes together in one Web-accessible edition of approximately , titles.
The third resource — the Digital Archive — provides access to digital imagesof photographs, maps, manuscripts, records, texts and a growing number of otherobjects in USC and its partners’ collections,with a particular emphasis on materialsrelated to Southern California. Nearly , objects exist in the Digital Archiveat present, and approximately , of these, mostly photographs, are currentlyavailable to the public. New collections are being added continuously, such as coverage from two historic Southern California newspapers, the Los Angeles Starand El Clamor Publico,which were published in Los Angeles between and .
The research center received a major boost at the end of when it enteredinto a wide-ranging agreement with the city of Los Angeles that clears the wayfor extensive cooperation in the digitization and wide distribution of the city’svoluminous records.
Interdisciplinary study of Southern California
USC is committed to interdisciplinary research and to programs that build on theresources of Southern California and Los Angeles — two of the four initiatives ofthe university’s strategic plan. Using the unique library collections at USC, as wellas the resources of other institutions, the research center actively supports a broadrange of interdisciplinary research, with a special focus on materials relating toSouthern California.
The st century has widely been characterized as the Pacific Century.Tothe extent that the Pacific Rim has a capital at all, it is not Tokyo or Singapore orSydney or San Francisco or Seattle. Rather, the political, economic and culturalcrossroads of the Pacific Rim is Los Angeles and Southern California.As a result,the interdisciplinary study of Southern California will be of paramount importanceto those seeking to understand the dynamic and influential Pacific Rim.The scholarlyexamination of Los Angeles and Southern California also has implications for high-growth cities worldwide as this region increasingly serves as the 21st century urbanparadigm.
global relevance
On the cover, from top: Medal of Commander in the Order of Orange-Nassau, presented toUSC President Rufus B.von KleinSmid in 1932by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands;“Celestial Cards” thataccompanied an 1830F.G. Moon astronomygame; and photographof Capt. G. AllanHancock, former chair of the USC Board ofTrustees, with youngman-o’-war bird, Tower Island,Galapagos, c. 1938
a Note card depictingGrauman’s ChineseTheater before it wasbought by Ted Mann in 1973
b Conch shell, from thezoological atlas of TheVoyage of the Astrolabe,1833, by Jules-Sebastien-CesarDumont-d’Urville
c Ogden Nash’s MusicalZoo, 1947, with musicby Vernon Duke
d USC vs. Stanford football program,October 26, 1929
e “Female Indian, dressedas the Minerva of Peru,”from The Present Stateof Peru, 1805, editedand translated byJoseph Skinner
f Map of East Asia, c. 1765, from the “Sea of Korea” rare map collection
g Flag carried by aJapanese soldier during World War II
h Former College ofLiberal Arts Building,c. 1920; first USCprospectus, 1880
(light brown); first USC course catalog, 1880 (blue)
i Original CharlesBukowski drawing thatappears in a copy of his1989 novel Hollywood
j Victorian-era Alice in Wonderlandplaying cards, featuringthe artwork of Sir John Tenniel
k Chapbook by JoséGuadalupe Posada, late19th-early 20th centuryMexican graphic artist
l Original matte paintingof the Emerald City andyellow brick road fromthe film The Wizard of Oz, 1939
m 1905 issue of Tip TopWeekly, one of a long-running series featuringFrank Merriwell, the mostpopular dime-novel hero of his day
n Photograph of AddisonResidence, GroveAvenue, Ventura, Calif.,1962, by architecturalphotographer JuliusShulman
o 1925 cover to the operaPaganini, scored byGerman composerFranz Lehar
p Lewitzky DanceCompany poster ofdancer ClaudiaSchneiderman in“Inscape,” c. 1980
q Trojan Marching Band helmet, 1950s to 1960s
r Lion Feuchtwanger and the handwrittenmanuscript of his best-selling 1925 novel, Jud Süss
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University Archives
The University Archives document more than years of academic life atSouthern California’s first university and include books, manuscripts, USCperiodicals and newspapers,ephemera,photographic images,disc and tape recordings,and other archival items.
Other USC-based collections
A number of USC schools have developed impressive holdings that come under theresearch center’s umbrella.Among these are:> the School of Architecture archives, which include the Julius Shulman
photography archive and a strong collection relating to the building of theWilshire Boulevard commercial corridor;
> the archives of the School of Cinema-Television, the largest of their kind in theworld, that include the David L.Wolper Archives, the Archive of Film andTelevision Music and the Louis B. Mayer Film and Television Center;
> the Thornton School of Music archives, which include original manuscripts,as well as the private score and monograph collections of composers IngolfDahl and Rayner Brown; and
> the USC Southern California Social Welfare Archive, which has a strong regional focus.
Historic families initiative
The research center is augmenting its substantial collections by gathering primarymaterials from the pioneer families and organizations that have made a significantimpact on the development of Southern California. Scholars and researchers willbe able to draw on these collections to compile an innovative and incisive historyof the region as told by the people who made it. For example, the research centeris documenting California Rancho families, First Century families, and earlyAfrican-American and Asian-American families in the region.
Partner institutions
One of the many prestigious projects that have teamed up with the archival research center is the Shoah Foundation’s Access to History project. The researchcenter currently is helping to support the Shoah Foundation’s cataloging of videointerviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses who reside in California.The ultimate goal of this joint project is to provide schools, libraries and other centers oflearning with broader digital access to the Shoah Foundation’s collection of morethan , eyewitness Holocaust testimonies.
Other key partners include the Automobile Club of Southern California, theCalifornia Historical Society, the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California,the Huntington Library and the Los Angeles City Archives.
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