The USC Libraries contains several electronic archives. These are digital projects that highlight some of the wide variety of primary materials held by the University of Southern California.
Ethnic Studies at USC
This project contains bibliographies, images, sounds and full text resources relating to the various ethnic groups that have enriched souther California's history.
Archival Research Center Digital Archive
The Digital Archive of the Archival Research Center provides access to
photographs, maps, manuscripts, records, texts, and sound recordings
owned by USC and partnering institutions with emphasis on Los Angeles
and Southern California materials. USC is developing this regional
"meta-collection" to unite and provide access to the unique information
owned and housed by many different regional institutions that when
viewed together, can expand the research opportunities and our knowledge
of the Southern California region. The Digital Archive began as the
Information System of Los Angeles (ISLA) project. We are continuously
enhancing the Digital Archive by adding new resources, new features, and
new partners.
LA as Subject
The L.A. as Subject database is an on-line directory of less visible archives and collections in the Los Angeles region. It provides a cross-section of the varied cultural materials held by local institutions and community groups, large and small.
Los Angeles: City in Stress
Growing out of the bibliography Los Angeles--A City in Stress, this project involves bringing up on the Web a series of full text documents dealing with the manifold problems of Los Angeles in the 1990's with emphasis on the civil disturbances of April and May 1992.
Los Angeles: Past, Present and Future
Using the rich archival resources held by USC's Regional History Collection, these pages provide glimpses into LA's past and present.
Making It in Los Angeles
The Department of Special Collections, in conjunction with the Getty Center, is a contributor to the Faces of LA project. This web page offers a photographic glimpse into the creative processes of LA artists of the past.
Public Art in Los Angeles
This site documents public art works, sculptural works, mosaics, and murals in the downtown area, the University of Southern California, and other places in the city.
Schoenberg Archives
The Schoenberg Archives describes the contents of the Arnold Schönberg
Center (Vienna, Austria) and related primary, secondary and tertiary source
material. The Center contains the manuscripts, artifacts, and personal
library of the composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) as well as an
extensive collection of associated resources.
Women's Salons Archive
Inspired by the historic examples of salon women such as, among others, Mme de Rambouillet, Mme Geoffrin, Mme de Stael,
Gertrude Stein, and Natalie Clifford Barney, five feminist writers of the seventies, among them professor Gloria Orenstein,
decided to create a feminist forum for intellectual discussion and for the presentation of feminist writings
that would serve a new
generation of women writers in the ways that the salons of the past had served the male intellectuals and writers of their times.
For that purpose, the Woman's Salon for Literature was established in New York, and flourished
from 1975-1985. Sections of the archive, particularly the newsletters, publicity statements, and fliers,
are being made available here.