From the Archivist's Desk - Week of April 21st, 2025

This week I worked on further processing the Curve Magazine collection. This processing project has been a part of two Rainin Foundation Grants the Mazer has received. It has been my pleasure to finish this project. I hope the organizational records will be a source of resource and inspiration for historians, students, and anyone hoping to maybe one day start up a successful Lesbian magazine.

New finding aid alerts! Our volunteer, Katie Crawford, completed processing the Patricia Lamis collection and the finding aid can be found here: https://mazerlesbianarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/24

Visitors! We were visited by Michelle Caswell’s UCLA Community Archives class on Tuesday. These students learned about our archive and looked through our collections.

Image from the archive: Last week’s project was rehousing VHS tapes from the Rosser Goodman Collection. These are now stored in archival boxes and a volunteer created an inventory of them. They will be added to the Rosser Goodman collection finding aid and select tapes will be digitized at the UCLA Media Preservation Lab.

two orange tubs hold VHS tapes - from the Rosser Goodman collection

-Alisha Graefe
June L Mazer Lesbian Archives Archivist