Thanks to Alea Heale for these great snapshots of LHRT at ALA 2024!! If anyone else has photos or thoughts from the conference you would like to share, please do send them our way lhrtnewsandnotes@gmail.com
LHRTers holding their annual group dinner at the Fogo de Chao restaurant during the American Library Association Conference in San Diego, California, 2024.Dr. Jorge N. Leal (right, front row), Assistant Professor of History at University of California Riverside, talking with LHRT Chair Steven A. Knowlton (left, front row) and other attendees before the Edward G. Holley Memorial Lecture at the American Library Association 2024.LHRT Chair Steven A. Knowlton introducing the Edward G. Holley Memorial Lecture 2024. The lecture series is named in honor of Edward G. Holley (1927-2010), esteemed library historian and professor.Dr. Jorge N. Leal, Assistant Professor of History at University of California Riverside, delivering his presentation, “Rock Archivo de LA: Preserving and Examining Late Twentieth-Century Latina/o Immigrant Music Cultures”, for the Edward G. Holley Memorial Lecture 2024. The Rock Archivo de LÁ is the online “archive of Southern California’s Latinx youth and musical cultures”. Visitors can browse the archive at https://rockarchivo.com/ and enjoy the associated Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/rockarchivola/.Holley Lecture attendees talking with Dr. Leal after his presentation.
