Library, Digital Library Development Program

The Cinewest archive collection contains materials documenting several Cinewest production initiatives including "Border Brujo", "California Murals off the Wall", "Mexico History and Image", and others. The "Border Brujo" archives include documentation of live performances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. The "Mexico History and Image" collection includes Mexican and Chicano murals and art shot in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The "California Murals off the Wall/Art in Progress" archives include documentation of artists David Avalos, Victor Ochoa, Gronk, Barbara Carrasco, Michael Schnorr and others at work on a portable mural show at the Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego. And ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program

CONNECT is a premier innovation company accelerator in San Diego that creates and scales great companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. By creating an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources they need for success, CONNECT has assisted in the formation and development of more than 3,000 companies since 1985. Widely regarded as one of the world’s most successful organizations linking entrepreneurs and C-suite executives with the resources they need for the commercialization of innovative products and services; our program has been modeled in more than 50 regions around ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program

This collection documents anthropological fieldwork by American anthropologist, Edwin Hutchins, and presently includes photographs created by Hutchins and his wife, Dona. The main fieldwork took place between July 1975 and September 1976, in the Trobriand Islands of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, primarily on the island of Kiriwina (also known as Boyowa). During this time the Hutchins were based in the village of Tukwaukwa. Other areas of Papua New Guinea visited by both Edwin and Dona Hutchins, and depicted in the photographs, include Kairiru in East Sepik Province, Port Moresby and its surroundings, and Western Highlands Province. Also included ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program

The Hansen Collection is a group of travel films dating from 1936 through 1980. The collection comprises both the private histories of home movies and the public record of travel films and is an important source of information for the researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program

The video recordings represent events organized by the Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW). Established in 2008 as a collaborative project of the UC San Diego Jewish Studies Program and the Library, the HLHW aims to preserve the memory of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Starting in January 2010, the HLHW has been hosting meetings and presentations that connect local survivors, their families, researchers, UCSD students, and San Diego communities. The collection includes the recordings of these events since 2012. Its content covers multiple topics of the history of the Jewish and Romani Holocaust, antisemitism, and Jewish migration mostly ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program

IDEAS aims to encourage interdisciplinary artists and musicians, as well as engineers and scientists to take advantage of the Qualcomm Institute’s advanced audio-visual facilities, services and personnel in staging performances and presentations of new or existing works and research. This collection contains video, still images, audio, and text, documenting past performances and presentations from the ongoing series.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program

Dissertations (PhD) and theses (M.A. and B.A.) based on anthropological fieldwork and other research in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea. The majority of the works were written in the 1960s (11 titles), 1970s (23 titles) and 1980s (10 titles). These works discuss social life and customs, history, and other topics pertaining to indigenous peoples of Papua New Guinea.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program

Reports from government patrols are a major source of primary information on Papua New Guinea’s colonial-era history. Patrol officers and other officials wrote detailed documents reporting on all aspects of the work carried out by the patrols. The reports give first-hand accounts on many topics, from first contact with remote Highland villages, to census counts, tax collection, health care, justice, labor recruiting, plantations, missionaries, anthropological descriptions, tribal warfare, languages, and more. The reports in this collection date primarily from the post-World War II era of Papua New Guinea, up through 1975, when PNG gained independence from Australia; a few pre-War ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program

Paul Pickowicz, Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at UC San Diego, traveled to China as a member of Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) Friendship Delegation from June 23 to July 24, 1971. He was working towards his PhD at University of Wisconsin, Madison during that time. Included in this collection are color slides that captured many aspects of China during his trip in 1971.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program

The “Pueblos Yucatecos” Project and Collection grew out of a series of oral history interviews, conducted in 2000 as part of my dissertation research on women’s organizing in the decades following the Mexican Revolution [Sarah Anne Buck, Activists and mothers: Feminist and maternalist politics in Mexico, 1923-1953, Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 2002]. At that time, I was interested in learning as much as possible about revolutionary women’s leagues from the perspective of rural women who belonged to such groups. I gained insight into this topic and much more, as the women interviewed told me about daily and extraordinary life events ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Digital Library Development Program