There were a few events that occurred last week at MCLM. The Hollywood Chapter of (The National Organization for Women) held a Feminist Art http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Extravaganza. The event featured an silent art auction, live musical performances, an enthralling poetry reading and a female break dancer. On Thursday, MCLM also welcomed the World Ventures Travel Group. The event was for about 25 members of the touring group.
The head archivist at MCLM, Cara Adams gave two tours last week. A student from John's Hopkins was amongst one of the tour groups. The student and I previously corresponded via email discussing MCLM's digitization initiatives. MCLM has some of its items digitized but it is my personal belief that digitization on a mass scale must occur as part of a grant project. Unfortunately, there are not many grants that support basic digitization, but there are a plethora of funding opportunities that support innovative digitization methods.
I have continued pushing inventories into the database and updating the finding aids. I have a group of volunteers separating the photograph collection into appropriate subject headings. MCLM's photograph collection is quite diverse, the subject categories we are assigning to the photographs are; entertainment, disciplines, politics, Los Angeles ,sports and descendants of Mayme A. Clayton. After I began working on the photograph project I began to understand the importance of labeling images before donating them to an archive, library or museum. Beyond providing a name it is necessary to detail what the person in the image did (e.g. career, interests, goals etc.), this is vital provenance information that expedites the cataloging process.
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