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LA as Subject: 25 years of Highlighting Southern California Archives

Evolution of LA as Subject Membership

When LA as Subject, LAAS, was transferred to USC and transition from work on a printed directory to a digital database, they also expanded their membership definition.

There are three types of LAAS members:

Archive Members: Institutions, organizations, and individuals owning, holding, or administering primary resources related to Los Angeles history
Research Members: Institutions, organizations, and individuals not owning, holding, or administering such primary resources but support and promote the mission of LA as Subject.
Student Members: K-12, undergraduate, or graduate students, especially those interested in the subject of history, librarianship, or archival management.

The new online LAAS directory provides LAAS archive members with a platform to connect with the public and share knowledge. The backend framework of the LAAS directory has allowed community archive specialist Stella Castillo to create valuable data sets. These data sets provide insight into the evolution of LAAS archive membership.
For example, we can now compare the make up of the printed directory and the current database.
39% of the current LAAS archive membership are original members. To learn more about what happened to the other original members check out the attrition rate. Since 1999, 166 new archive members joined the research alliance. This means that LAAS has added approximately 16.5 archive members per year.

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