Information for Researchers
Chavez Ravine: An Unfinished Story represents a distinctive community curated initiative aimed at documenting, preserving, and disseminating the histories of the Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop neighborhoods. This project challenges conventional archival paradigms by redistributing narrative authority to the communities themselves, thereby fostering a more inclusive and accurate representation of local histories. Through this approach, historically marginalized voices are centered, ensuring that their experiences are both preserved and made accessible for future scholarships and public engagement.
Copyright
We encourage community donors from Chavez Ravine: An Unfinished Story to keep their copyright in the transfer of the items to Loyola Marymount University. If copyright is held by an entity outside of Loyola Marymount University, it is the researcher's responsibility to obtain the necessary permissions.
To determine copyright ownership and receive guidance on obtaining permission, please contact the Archives and Special Collections department at the William H. Hannon Library via Special.Collection@lmu.edu. Loyola Marymount University reserves the right to request the removal of its images from any website that has not received proper authorization or has failed to provide appropriate citation.
Digital Collection
The digital collection for Chavez Ravine: An Unfinished Story contains the only materials currently accessible. We are working steadily to add materials from our unprocessed backlog to this collection, and we invite you to continue to revisit the collection to see the updated materials. We do not make unprocessed materials accessible for Chavez Ravine: An Unfinished Story.
Citing Chavez Ravine: An Unfinished Story
Please see research guide for guidance: https://libguides.lmu.edu/c.php?g=323770&p=3624040
If you have questions about citing the collection, please contact Special.Collections@lmu.edu.
