The Chicano Archives Digitization Project

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center

Primary contact

Chon A. Noriega
Professor and Director
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
(310) 206-0714
cnoriega@ucla.edu

Project URL

www.chicano.ucla.edu
digital.library.ucla.edu/frontera

Additional project researchers

Terezita Romo, CSRC Arts Projects Coordinator
Yolanda Retter Vargas, CSRC Librarian and Archivist

Project description

Established in 1969, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) Library and Archive is the first library of its kind and the only freestanding Chicano studies library in the United States. The CSRC Library and Archive serves the field worldwide through a variety of information resources: print materials, digital resources, and archival holdings, as well as through reference assistance and bibliographic instruction.  The CSRC Library and Archive has undertaken a new initiative aimed at providing digital access to its rare and historically significant materials, and at facilitating the creation/acquisition of new archival holdings at UCLA.  To date, over 5,000 photographs and documents have been digitized.  The Chicano Archives Digitization Project will feature a searchable online database of primary documents and artwork for research by scholars and students. This initiative is done in conjunction with the UCLA Digital Library and draws upon other CSRC research projects that have an archival and/or oral history component.

The CSRC thanks the following sponsors for their support: Ford Foundation, Getty Foundation, Haynes Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Los Tigres del Norte Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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