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Urban informality is often discussed and debated by scholars of cities in the Global South, but the term is used with much less frequency in studies of US cities. Looking at the daily functions of American cities, however, it is clear informality plays just as central a role in the US as in other cities around the world, whether in the housing sector, jobs, or land use. This article will discuss the longer historical arc leading to the present day with a focus on specific historical moments in Los Angeles history. I begin with the emergence of formalization and land titles in an era of colonization, continuing to a discussion of early-twentieth century land rights specifically in the communities of Chavez Ravine, and end with an exploration of urban informality in Skid Row. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The utility of every imaginable application which incorporates a gazetteer hinges on the simple fact that the resulting system will only be as useful, complete, or accurate as the underlying gazetteer itself. A major issue confronting gazetteers utilized in systems today is that they are not complete and measures of their accuracy are largely unknown. In this paper we describe a methodology which addresses this problem by automatically generating highly complete and detailed regional gazetteers from Internet sources. We utilize information extraction and integration techniques to automatically obtain geographic features and associated footprints and feature types from freely and widely available online data which could be applied to create a gazetteer for nearly any area. We discuss the distinguishing characteristics of the generated gazetteer and extend previous work to define measures which can be used to assess the completeness and accuracy of gazetteers. Using these measures, the generated gazetteer is evaluated against the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer and the Los Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database. Our results indicate that a gazetteer created by our methods will be at least as complete as any gazetteer currently available for certain feature classes, while falling short in others. We conclude by offering suggestions to address these shortcomings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars have recently reconceptualized the archive not only as a repository of knowledge, but also as an active producer and arbiter of knowledge. The study of archives, from this perspective, must attend to processes as well as products. This paper examines UCLA's Archiving Filipino American Music in Los Angeles (AFAMILA) project as a case study of collaborative archiving, from the perspective that both methodology, the strategies and practices of collecting, and musical content, the sounds collected, determine the meaning of music archives. Furthermore, the study seeks to demonstrate how the collaborative approach, with its emphasis on dialogue and exchange, subverts the discourses of power that have historically shaped music archiving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the history of multiracialism in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in East Los Angeles, California. Transformation of community from Jewish enclave to predominantly Mexican community; Neighborhood's commitment to multiracialism in the 1950s; History of Jewish Boyle Heights in the late twentieth century.

Presents updates related to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) as of 1984. Recipient of the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for 1983; Job vacancies at the "The Journal of American History" publication; Details of a survey on OAH members released by Lewis Perry at the business meeting of the OAH in Los Angeles, California on April 6, 1984.

Presents the Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive housed in the Center for Motion Picture Study in California. Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927; Aim at assisting the organization advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures; Research and reference collection of film-related paper materials; Major collections.

The article deals with a workshop concerning rare books for art librarians held at the Art Libraries Society of North America conference on February 8, 1985 in Los Angeles, California. The morning session of the workshop was focused on rare books as sources for art historical research. Other topics discussed include the unpopularity of catalog collecting and private collection catalogs.

The article deals with a workshop on film as art conducted during the Art Libraries Society of North America conference on February 8, 1985 in Los Angeles, California. Projects presented in the workshop include "Toward a National Computerized Database for Moving Image Materials," sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art. The film evaluation aspect of the workshop was conducted by Lois Swan Jones, professor of art at North Texas State University in Denton.