La Jolla Historical Society

The La Jolla Historical Society will complete the second phase of a collections management project to increase public accessibility, improve internal efficiency, and strengthen the management and stewardship of its community archive. The project will preserve original materials and create container lists and collection guides for 77 individual collections in 193 boxes measuring approximately 288 linear feet. The project will support a paid internship program for students from surrounding universities, intended to foster interest in history careers. Container lists and collection guides produced through the project will broaden public access to the materials in the collection. The museum will publish the resulting finding aids in the freely accessible Online Archive of California. The project will increase the museum’s understanding of how the collection is being used and identify ways to use its collections to better serve the community.