Cal State LA Library

City Terrace Elementary School Principal Elaine Hu thanks all students, staff, and faculty for their school supply donations this year! Supplies will be going to students and teachers in need all year. We’ll be doing another drive next fall ✏️

feeling like a pot of gold today 🌈
thank you to librarian kendall faiulkner for this gorgeous photo!

congrats to all our future students admitted today! come see us today at golden eagle fest today until noon! 🦅

we’re so excited about an upcoming event with one of our favorite authors, … stay tuned for ✨

thank you to everyone who participated and stopped by our banned books read out event! join us today for our STANDING UP TO BANS advocacy panel at 4:30pm in the university library community room. Learn from experts how to resist pressures to ban or remove books from the curriculum and libraries.

yalllll when I tell you how excited we are for this one! we’re partnering up with so many folx to bring you three events highlighting 🎶 Sounds of the Underground: Music Scenes in LA from the 1960s-2000s 🎶 A book talk with , a symposium on music research, and capping it off with a tribute to party crews, dancing to the sounds of 👟👟🎶 you can see all the info here: https://qrco.de/beG4je

Join us for Cal State LA Night at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 29, where alumni, students, friends, and family come together to celebrate Golden Eagle pride and cheer on the Los Angeles Dodgers. Details: bit.ly/3PZKC7x

We're so excited to share the virtual tour of our 75th anniversary exhibit! Check it out on our YouTube channel and below:

Touring Our 75th Anniversary Exhibit | Cal State LA University Library Nestled in the heart of the Los Angeles area, Cal State LA has been a pillar here for 75 years. To celebrate this milestone anniversary, the University Libra...

IT’S TIME FOR DODGER BASEBALL! Join us on August 29 for our fourth Cal State LA Night at Dodger Stadium where alumni, students, friends, and family come together to celebrate Golden Eagle pride and support the LA Dodgers.

Each ticket includes one commemorative, limited edition Golden Eagle-themed Dodgers hat.

Click here to purchase tickets before they sell out: https://www.calstatela.edu/alumni/2023-cal-state-la-night-dodger-stadium

See you at the game!

We've partnered with the Fellows Fund of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. (USITT) to establish the Design Resource Collection! The DRC will provide students, faculty, researchers, and the Los Angeles community with a unique and diverse set of resources to engage, explore, and conduct research in the areas of Theatre and Performing Arts Production & Design. It includes books and other resources covering a wide-range of design related topics, including Stagecraft and emerging Theatre Technologies, Art and Architecture, Costume Design and Fashion, and much more. Check out the DRC lounge and the first selections from the collection up on the 3rd floor of Library North.

Thrilled to lend artifacts from our Special Collections and Archives for the new exhibit at the Compton Art and History Museum. The Compton Communicative Arts Academy was a collective in the 1960s and 1970s that fostered creativity through workshops and events in Compton. The University Library has a collection of CCAA photographs and artifacts including these featured in this exhibit, alongside art from . Check out the museum presented by

Elliott Pinkney (b. 1934 in Georgia) is a poet, sculptor, and painter living and working in the community of , CA for the past 20 years. During 1977 and 1978 the walls of Compton served as his canvas. Funded by a special grant from the , he completed eight throughout the community depicting African American pride and the importance of understanding between different cultures.

The Compton Communicative Arts Academy (CCAA) Archive at is a multi-year project to preserve and provide access to a collection of images of national significance that document and culture, community-based art-making, and art-based community making in during the early 1970s.

thanks to everyone who joined us honoring Tim Harding last week! Tim is a musician, activist, advocate, and former chair of Latin American Studies here at Cal State LA. he donated many of his latin american music vinyls as well as artwork to our Special Collections and Archives department, and were hard at work cataloging those. we’ll share more once they are available to see!

so much fun digging around in the “Pictures of Our Past” collections in Special Collections and Archives to find gems like this one, from the 1960s. we’re celebrating 75 years of here at the library, curating a huge exhibit! stay tuned for the details on the opening ceremony scheduled next month 🎉

The University Library Special Collections and Archives would like to honor and recognize Julian Nava, a true inspiration for our Los Angeles community, born in 1927 in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles. At the age of 17, he joined the Naval Air Corps during World War II. He studied at East Los Angeles Community College and transferred to Pomona College. He later earned his doctorate at Harvard University in 1955. He was the first Latino elected to the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education and during the 1968 East LA Walkouts. Additionally, Nava was the first Mexican American U.S. Ambassador to Mexico in 1980.

Special Collections and Archives has been working on the "Cal State LA Public Officials Papers: Community Leaders of Color Breaking Barriers" Project which is funded by an Archival Grant from The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. The grant includes the processing of four collections: Mervyn M. Dymally, Julian C. Dixon, Richard Alatorre, and Julian Nava. For more information about the Julian Nava Papers, please contact Special and Collections and Archives.

Throwing it back to the 70’s with this archive photo of some Golden Eagles having fun in the sun!

Fun Fact: This picture was taken before Cal State LA changed their mascot from the Diablo to the Golden Eagle we know and love today!