The following collections are now open and available for research. Alan Mandell Papers, 1927-2012 Alan Mandell is an accomplished theater and film actor, theater manager, stage director, and producer. He was a founding member of the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop and the San Quentin Drama Workshop, managed the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, and was consulting director for the Los Angeles Actors’ Theatre and the Los Angeles Theater Center where he ran the Poetry Literary Series. Mandell is considered to be a foremost interpreter and scholar of Samuel Beckett’s works. Materials in this collection document Mandell’s professional career and include scripts, photographs, some personal materials, and correspondence with many notable literary and theater figures, including Beckett. June L. Mazer Papers, 1929-1988 June L. Mazer was born in Baltimore, MD in 1929. Her educational experiences combined with her tenure at the Children's Experimental Theatre in Baltimore, the Center for the Healing Arts in Los Angeles, and the California Institute of Psychodrama in Los Angeles led her to the practice of Psychodrama Therapy at several different medical institutions throughout the country. In 1970, she moved to Los Angeles and soon became active in the lesbian activist community. After her death in 1987, the name of the West Coast Lesbian Collections was changed to the June L. Mazer Archives to commemorate her commitment to lesbian activism and historical preservation. The June L. Mazer Papers include her personal writings, ephemera, as well as her publications and clippings. Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe Records, 1975-1979 In the fall of 1975, a group of women opened Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe in Eugene, Oregon with the idea of supporting a Women's Center. The restaurant functioned as a collective without designating a manager or boss and food was purposely priced inexpensively. This collection contains documents related to the general history, operation, finances, and eventual dissolution of the Eugene, Oregon women's restaurant. Gianna Groves-Lord Papers, 1950-1993 Gianna Groves-Lord was a professional chef who later turned to floristry. The bulk of her papers consists of personal records related to United States immigration and employment. Jean Miller Papers, 1964-1980 Jean Lewis Miller was a Bay area feminist lesbian activist and Berkeley Public Library employee. Her papers largely cover political and legal struggles with the city of Berkeley. The collection also contains suffragist literature, unpublished manuscripts and personal documents. Harriet Weaver Papers, 1972-1979 Harriet Sherwood Weaver (1913-1988) contributed book reviews and feature articles to the Kansas City star (1936). She married and moved to Los Angeles (ca.1940). After the 1961 Bel-Air fire, Weaver crusaded for effective management of native brush in the Santa Monica Mountains and brush clearance legislation. She later served on the Los Angeles Countywide Citizens' Planning Council (1972-79). The collection consists of writings, reports, minutes, correspondence, and proceedings related to the Los Angeles Countywide Citizens' Planning Council during her term of service on it. United Arab Emirates 2011 Parliamentary Election Ephemera Newspaper clippings and small posters from the September 2011 United Arab Emirates Parliamentary Election. Contains approximately 163 political advertisements dated from August to September 2011, including material on several women nominees. Tahrir Documents Project Flyers, Newspapers, and Other Ephemera, 2011-2012 Flyers, newspapers, and other ephemera were collected by the Tahrir Documents Project during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath. The Arabic-language documents address a variety of topics, including constitutional amendments, moral conduct, women's rights, revolutionary strategy, and Muslim-Christian relations. The collection includes activist newspapers, personal essays, missives, political party communications, advertisements, and protest flyers. The group worked to scan and publish the items on tahrirdocuments.org, alongside translations sourced from a network of over ninety volunteer translators in Egypt and abroad. From March 2011 to May 2011, an estimated five hundred documents—under the subject categories of revolution, politics, culture, constitution, regime and religion—were digitized, translated, and published online. Wire Recordings of Japanese Performers in Sacramento, California, ca. 1950 Twelve wire recordings and corresponding digitized copies that contain portions of a variety of live concerts performed by Japanese and Japanese American musicians on tour in Sacramento, California in and around the year 1950. The recordings capture portions of small concerts performed by unidentified musicians, as well as live concerts of well known Japanese performers of the era, including Hibari Misora, Hamako Watanabe, Yoshiko Otaka (Shirley Yamaguchi), Ryoichi Hattori, Tomiko Hattori, Shizuko Kasagi, and Kawada Haruhisa. David Healy Papers 1950 – 2001 The David Healy Papers consist of a draft of Healy’s monograph and all associated interview transcripts/supplementary materials from his published oral history of psychopharmacology (The Psychopharmacologists, Vols. I-III). It also contains research and testimony from multiple legal cases on pharmaceutical product liability concerning the treatment of depression, including specific arguments about the pharmaceutical industry’s knowledge of the relationships between Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and suicide. The collection’s legal materials include raw data from fluoxetine’s clinical trials, which occurred while the product was seeking FDA approval, before it was launched in the U.S. in 1988. These data show the co-prescription of benzodiazepines during Randomized Control Trials to counteract the activating properties of fluoxetine. Pertinent legal cases include the Jefferson Circuit court case, Fentress v. Shea Communications and Eli Lilly (the first SSRI case to go to trial rather than be settled outside of court), as well as the following U.S. District Court cases: Susan Forsyth et al. v. Eli Lilly, Miller et al. v. Pfizer Incorporated, Motus v. Pfizer Incorporated, and Tobin v. SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (now GlaxoSmithKline). All of these legal cases were synthesized and published in Healy’s 2004 book entitled Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression. Donald J. Cram Papers, ca. 1950-2001 Donald J. Cram, a Nobel Prize-winning organic chemist, came to UCLA in August of 1947 where he taught and conducted research for over four decades. The field of host-guest complexation chemistry was in large part developed by Cram and his research group at UCLA. Through this work, the interactions between enzymes and their substrates in a living cell were mimicked using synthetic molecules. The collection includes correspondence, lectures, publications, UCLA theses and dissertations, scrapbooks, patent notebooks, honorary medals, molecular models, photographs, his signature bow-tie and Nobel Prize. Holling Clancy Holling Papers, ca. 1895-1979 Holling Clancy Holling (1900-1973) was an instructor, freelance designer, advertising artist, and book illustrator. He and his wife Lucille Webster Holling collaborated on many books, including The Book of Indians (1935) and The Book of Cowboys (1936). He later wrote and illustrated fiction, combining nature and history themes, including Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941). The collection consists of materials relating to books written and illustrated by Holling and Lucille.