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In October, 2004, the University of California Libraries entered into a two-year contract with JSTOR (Journal Storage) to establish from its journal runs across all UC campuses a paper repository of approximately fourteen million pages (350+ titles). This "dim archive"- accessible to only UC and JSTOR-would benefit JSTOR by making available a reliable and complete print back file, and UC through cost and space savings from no longer having to maintain several copies of low-use volumes. Since January, 2005, the task of establishing system wide support and collaboration, planning and realizing the actual operation itself, and developing strict but realistic guidelines for finding the best UC copy and then validating it (page by page) has been enormous. This article traces the progress of the project thus far, now approximately three-quarters complete, from the original motivations of UCL (University of California Libraries) and JSTOR, to the preparations by the facility housing the repository (the Southern Regional Library Facility), to the planning and re-planning of the project designer/manager. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper asks what a “cultural turn” in transportation geography might look like. In taking seriously Susan Hanson's claim that transportation geography has become a “moribund corner” of the discipline, this paper suggests a set of new avenues for inquiry. To do so, the paper draws on fieldwork I conducted in California's East Bay, as well as the story a fictitious transit system called the “B-Line.” Despite being a fiction, I argue that the B-Line offers an excellent entry point into mapping what a “cultural turn” in transportation geography might entail. Speaking to the larger theme of “doing cultural geography,” this essay argues that doing cultural geography not only means continuing to explore questions of representation, ideology, and cultural meaning, but it also means applying those questions to areas of study like transportation geography—areas where such questions remain largely unexplored. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper seeks to shed new light on the much-discussed survey work of American photographic pioneer Timothy H. O'Sullivan through a close analysis of a hitherto unnoticed collection of King Survey photographs at the University of California's Bancroft Library. Among the notable features of this collection is the appearance, in seven rare views of Eastern California, of a ‘T.H.O'S.’ monogram, as well as the existence of a double set of captions, the one more serious or official, the other more informal and sometimes quite humorous. These features, along with the eastward orientation of the collection and the particular selections of images inserted in the collection's opening and closing sequences, suggest a narrational reading of the set that tends to displace, or at least to redefine, traditional arguments about O'Sullivan's oeuvre in relation to the institutional demands of his employers. The double hypothesis of a humorous and narrational reading embodied in the collection in turn suggests new ways of interpreting the many narrative or reflexive bits contained in O'Sullivan's Western photographs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduces research papers presented in the inaugural conference of the University of California Council of Women's Programs and published in the 1989 issue of the 'Women's Studies' journal. Relationship between the study of women and social movements; Zavella's discussion on the effect of the problematic relationship between feminism and the Chicano movement on Chicana studies; Roberta Fernandez's analysis of Helena Maria Viramontes' story, 'The Cariboo Caf,'.