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LA Aqueduct Digital Platform series: 100 mules will make you mull over Los Angeles' past, present, and future
What’s the difference between a mule and a donkey? That was the first question I asked myself when I started working as an oral interview scholar at the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT). You see, I am very much the urban dweller. Born and raised in Los Angeles, the only animal I had ever ridden was a wooden horse on the carousel at the Santa Monica pier.
LA Aqueduct Digital Platform series: Digging into the Friends of the LA River archive
I’m a processing assistant for the Los Angeles Aqueduct Digital Platform project at UCLA Library Special Collections’ Center for Primary Research and Training. Over the summer, I’ll be working with Diane Ward, a graduate student in Geography who will process and create description for the Friends of the Los Angeles River records. FoLAR is an environmental organization working to restore the LA River and its habitat and educate people about the river’s importance.
Recently Processed Collections
The following collections were recently processed, and are now open for research.
Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Records Processing Project
UCLA Library Special Collections acquired the records of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education in 2011, and since then our staff has been working to process this large and significant collection so that researchers can begin to use it.
Portions of the collection will be open to the public soon, but in the meantime, we wanted to offer a glimpse behind the scenes to give an idea of the project's scope.
Mysterious "twins" go for a "pizza run"
By Yasmin Damshenas, Center for Primary Research and Training Just about anyone who has been part of a third-grade class, a soccer team, or a debate club remembers the drill. Everyone lines up by height, gets herded into rows, balances precariously on risers or squats low—all to produce the sort of group photo that sometimes ends up in the archives. In 1843 Austrian Joseph Puchberger became one of the first people to figure out how to make a panoramic camera work.
Reducing the backlog, three boxes at a time
In the summer of 2011, graduate students in the Center for Primary Research and Training embarked on a project to reduce the department’s backlog of partially processed collections and make them available to the public for research.
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