Week Sixteen at The Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum

Seasons greetings! The week before the holiday break MCLM was proud to host the closing event for L.A. Rebellion Creating a New Black Cinema in conjunction with U.C.L.A. The event was spectacular! MCLM rolled out the red carpet (literally) for its guests, some notable attendees were John Singleton, Julie Dash and Roger Guenveur Smith. There was also a special presentation by Ben Caldwell, an independent film maker.

I continued to process scrapbooks and posters. Now that we have physical control of the collection MCLM collections is moving onto cataloging the items. The cataloging process for each item is different; some items will have LOC numbers while others will not or require numbers to be built. I put together workflows for the volunteers to begin the cataloging of the posters and sheet music.