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CSUDH Receives Grant to Continue Japanese American Digitization Project

September 20, 2019

archiving images for the Japanese American digitalization project

(Carson, CA) – California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) Donald R. and Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections has received $282,102 from the National Parks Service’s (NPS) World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program to continue its work on the California State University Japanese American Digitization Project (CSUJAD). The JACS grant will fund the digitization of several recently donated collections that include approximately 7,000 archival items related to the incarceration of 120,000 Americans during WWII. The new collections resulted from outreach efforts during the CSUDJAD’s previous two-year NPS grant in 2015. “We are thrilled with ... Read More

CSUDH is New Home of Extensive Archival Library on Labor History

June 26, 2019

(Carson, CA) – The California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Gerth Archives and Special Collections has acquired the vast Holt Labor Library – along with a donation of $200,000 to catalog and maintain the artifacts from the library’s founder, Apple Inc.’s fifth employee, Rod Holt. The collection is the largest archival donation in the university’s history and chronicles the history of the struggle to organize trade unions, the rise of anti-war and political movements, and the fight for civil rights and to protect the environment. “The Holt collection is a fantastic expression of 20th century dissent, as well as the labor movement in the U.S., and includes a whole host of ... Read More

Digital Residency Training Program Receives $680K Grant

September 12, 2018

Japanese internment camps image archiving

(Carson, CA) A digital residency and training program co-developed by the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Gerth Archives and Special Collections for the L.A. as Subject research alliance has received a $680,395 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). One of 44 grants awarded through IMLS’s Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21), the L.A. as Subject Digital Residency and Training Program will train recent Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) graduates from across the nation and 150 staff and volunteers at 30 Los Angeles-based community and neighborhood archives in digital collections management. The goal of the project is ... Read More

A Sense of Justice

February 21, 2018

Maria Villa

Maria Villa was “born with a strong sense of justice,” but it wasn’t until she witnessed unfair actions against her parents’ family business that she decided to follow her convictions. Villa was in her senior year at CSUDH at the time, working in her parents’ stretched canvas manufacturing business in Torrance and contemplating graduate school to earn an MBA: “Seeing how my parents were taken advantage of at times by customers and vendors who knew how to work the system made me want to become an attorney so I could help small business owners stand up for and learn about their rights,” says Villa, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from CSUDH in 1982 and a Juris ... Read More

Library Archives Receives $100K to Expand Japanese American Digitalization Project

June 6, 2017

Japanese internment camps image archiving

California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) Library Archives and Special Collections has received a $100,000 archival grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP) to continue its work on the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project (CSUJAD). The CCLPEP grant will help fund CSUJAD projects and the digitalization of more than 6,500 additional records related to Japanese Americans during the mid-20th century, including oral histories from California State University, Fullerton’s (CSUF) Center for Oral and Public History, and collections from Claremont Colleges Libraries. “The CSUJAD project has allowed us to develop a functional and useful ... Read More

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