Please join us for webinar presentation with Kelly C. Wallace, Los Angeles Public Library History & Genealogy Department. There is no better place to start your Los Angeles history search than LAPL. Kelly will introduce us to the California Index at LAPL, an index to people, places, and events that have had a significant impact on life in Southern California.
Kelly will also give a brief overview of the other resources available at the History & Genealogy Department.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. The webinar will also be recorded and published on our website and Facebook page.
LOCATION
Webinar via Zoom
REGISTRATION
This is a free event but registration is required.
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About the Los Angeles Public Library History and Genealogy Department
The History Collection includes hundreds of books related to social, cultural and political aspects of Los Angeles’ storied history. The department also maintains both the California Subject and Biography Indexes, retrospective databases indexing selected citations from newspapers, magazines, and books about Los Angeles events, landmarks and historical players throughout the city’s past. The Map Collection features historic street guides of Los Angeles, historic maps of Los Angeles on aperture cards, Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of California cities, and United States Geological Survey topographic maps. The Genealogy Collection numbers more than 40,000 volumes, including more than 10,000 family histories. Many of these are rare, out-of-print books. The Genealogy Department also contains a collection of Los Angeles city directories that dates all the way back to 1873.
About the California Index
The California Index is an index created in-house at Los Angeles Public Library that points a person to books, newspaper/magazine articles, photos and vertical files related to people, buildings, neighborhoods, industries and events important to California, with an emphasis on Los Angeles and Southern California. Currently, there are currently nearly 600,000 records in the Index. Here is direct link to the online section of the index: www.lapl.org/collections-resources/lapl-indexes/california-index
About Kelly C. Wallace
Kelly Wallace is the California History Subject Specialist at the Los Angeles Public Library History & Genealogy Department. She began her career at LAPL in 2002 at the Frances Howard Goldwyn Regional Branch Library. She transferred to the History & Genealogy Department in 2014 and has been the California History Subject Specialist for the last four years.
A native Angeleno, Ms. Wallace graduated from Stanford University with a degree in art history. She worked in the motion picture industry for 15 years before going back to school, earning a master’s in information studies at UCLA.
She is passionate about Los Angeles and its rich history.
