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The article looks at the special collections of libraries in Los Angeles, California. They include the Culinary Collection at the Los Angeles Central Library. The Manuscript Collection of the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) features papers from several writers including Susan Sontag. The Roddy McDowall Photograph Archive is housed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library.

Presents information on a collection of papers held by the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco, California about the experiences of Russian immigrants during the revolution in 1917. Accounts of chemist Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff and writer Antonia Von Arnold on life as immigrants in the United States; Significance of the collection.

Presents information on the acquisition of family papers formerly owned by Nathaniel Hawthorne's family by Stanford University, Stanford, California. Detailed information on the collection; Age of the collection; Comments from Jay Fliegelman, professor of English.

The article discusses the addition of the papers of the late editor of the journal Andrew Genzoli to the Humboldt County, California, collection at the Humboldt State University Library as of February 1987. According to the article, the collection was acquired by the library with the financial assistance of the Ferndale, California, organization the Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation. The article states that the collection consisted of news columns written by Genzoli and photographs of Humboldt County. The article offers comments from Humboldt State University librarian Erich Schimps.

The article focuses on open access (OA). It discusses two main routes of infrastructure for OA, who pays for OA publishing and the use of OA in higher education. It mentions the relationship between OA and journal impact factor and how librarians can show their support for OA. It highlights that role of OA in social sciences and humanities.

The article presents an overview of the Grateful Dead Archivist at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). The 1965-founded American rock band Grateful Dead gave its archive to UCSC in 2008. The band was dissolved in 1995 and its recordings remain to be the property of Grateful Dead Productions. The archive at UCSC features records from Grateful Dead Archive employees. The archive spans several disciplines and fields, reflecting the interdisciplinarity of studies about Grateful Dead. UCSC aims to develop the archive into a marquee scholarly collection.

This essay details how archives and museums shape historiography and stresses the role that politics play in the arena of global curation. The author, director of the Wende Museum, explores Los Angeles’ position as an alternative space for the reevaluation of East German art. He traces the city’s historical relationship with Germany, and focusing on the activities of both LACMA and the Wende Museum examines the extent to which Los Angeles’ attempts to interpret the legacy of the Cold War can challenge the deep-seated historical divides that impact on the reception of East German culture nearly twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Features the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, a repository of gay artifacts located in Los Angeles, California. Background on the archive; Source of funds used for the repository; Strategies adopted by ONE Inc. to promote the archive.

Details the process of how the Palos Verdes Library in Palos Verdes, California created a digital resource to protect its historic photographs and other documents. Drawbacks of conventional newspaper and photographic collections; Planning the project; The need to find support; Challenges faced; Conclusions.

Discusses the conflict that has developed in the institutions fostering President Richard Nixon's memory. Dispute between the Nixon estate and the National Archives over vast collection of Presidential papers and record; Conflict that has emerged over a grant from the widow of a longtime friend of Nixon; How the name of Nixon was always associated with conflict.

Focuses on the collections on GLBT history of Los Angeles at the ONE Institute and Archives' library in California. Files and archives; Magazines and journals on GLBT people; Information on the special collections of the library.