San Francisco and New York are most commonly associated with the Beats, but the movement also found a home here in Los Angeles. We recently digitized a selection of reel-to-reel audio recordings created by poet Lawrence Lipton during the late 1950s and early 1960s inside his home in “Venice West,” the epicenter of Los Angeles’ Beat poetry scene.

The project was made possible by generous support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) under its Recordings at Risk grant program.

#LostLA, our co-production with KCET, has been nominated for a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for its Yosemite episode, which traced the lost history of conflicts over who owns and who gets to manage California's most iconic landscape.

USC alumna Faye Kyriax Demetriou '48 recently returned to campus with her daughter. While here, they visited Leavey Library's Wall of Scholars, where Demetriou is honored as a 1948 recipient of the Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Award. #FightOn

In its look back at LA's long and inspiring history of LGBTQ activism, ABC7 recently featured the collections of our ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives—as well as an interview with director Joseph Hawkins.

Through a first-of-its-kind partnership between the USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, our USC Digital Library has debuted the Dance Heritage Video Archive. This newly available collection of 1,200 video recordings was made possible with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Our very own Rebecca Michelson & Ruth Wallach have published a photographic essay on the history of L.A.'s Pico Boulevard and its architectural legacy.