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General Education Sections from the ��ɫ���� Schedule of Classes and Catalogs are available in a digital format. 

Historical ��ɫ���� Catalogs from 1950-2017 are in the process of being scanned and made available in a digital format. New catalogs are added regularly. If the one you need is not online yet, contact LIB-Archives@csulb.edu to request scans from it.

This archive houses the  Newspaper (now called the LB Current) editions dating back from 1949 to March 2023 and editions of and  (now called ENYE) magazines through Spring of 2022. Current issues can be found on the publications' websites. It also includes earlier student publications and campus yearbooks.

Publications Include:

The Daily Forty-Niner (1949-2023)
The Forty-Niter (1964-1966)
��ɫ���� Yearbooks (1950-2011)
DIG Magazine (2003-2022)
DÍG EN ESPAÑOL (2019-2022)
Scooper (1973-1976)
Sooper Duper Asian Scooper (1973)
UCL Asian (1973)
UniverCity (1973-1979)
University Magazine (1980-2003)
Yellow Journalism Newsletter (1973)

The VOAHA Collections are currently being transferred onto a new digital platform. Some of them are searchable at this site: but the complete collection is not accessible or organized yet. Thank you for your patience! 

The Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive (VOAHA) provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections and University Archives of the University Library. With its focus on orality, VOAHA brings to life the timbre and tone of voice, the nuances of spoken language, and the richness of oral narratives of around 343 African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Latinos/as and Southern and Eastern European immigrants. They range from farm laborers to professionals, from social reformers/community activists to anarchists and communists, from ventriloquists to jazz arrangers. In a variety of dialects, in this oral literary genre, they recount their joys and sorrows and their triumphs and defeats as they lived out their daily lives in the period from the 1890s to the 1990s.

For permission to reuse the content found in VOAHA, please fill out this form: VOAHA Use Permissions Request Form

Women's Studies – 142 narrators, 695 hours

Topics - 1900 to 1960s: radicals and reformers; suffragists; women in professions, business and entertainment; WW2 aircraft workers; women’s lives/women’s work; and garment workers (labor collection). [See also Long Beach/Community Builders]

Topics - 1960s to 1980s: Asian American women’s movement; Chicana feminist activists; feminist health movement; Los Angeles feminists; and welfare mothers' movement.

Labor Studies - 48 narrators, 167 hours

Topics: desegregating unions, WW2; organizing Mexican furniture workers; oil workers organizing and lives; women garment workers, including organizing of Chicago Women’s Local; and the lives and experiences of individuals active in the labor movement and/or who were participants in historic moments in labor history in Flint, Michigan, Ludlow, Colorado and Oakland, California.

Ethnic Studies - 110 narrators, 256 hours

Note: many narrators discuss ethnic/race relations, but the following refers only to the interviews with people of color and/or immigrants.

African Americans - Topics: desegregating LA aircraft and shipbuilding unions (labor collection); organizing to open wartime jobs, and the experiences of the women aircraft workers, women’s lives/women’s work, and women’s social reform activism (women’s history); and, civil rights and institution building (Long Beach history). (19 narrators, 53 hours)

American Indian Lives – Topics: impact of Indian boarding schools; the occupation of Alcatraz Island (6 narrators/14 hrs)

Asian Americans  - Topics:  Terminal Island Japanese fishing village (Long Beach history); Japanese community of South Bay; Asian American women’s movement (women’s history); and Cambodian and Hmong immigrants (50 narrators, 96 hours)

Mexicans/Chicanos/Chicanas  - Topics: Chicano Student Movement; Mexican Revolution; life and work on Rancho Los Alamitos; furniture workers, and garment workers efforts to form a Spanish speaking local (labor collection); Chicana feminists, including founders of Hijas de Cuauhtemoc and Comision Feminil Mexicana; WW2 aircraft workers; and women’s lives/women’s work (women’s history. (35 narrators, 93 hours)

Community Studies - 91 narrators, 195 hours

Topics: focus on Long Beach, Signal Hill and Terminal island and includes discovery/extraction of oil and subsequent economic, political and social changes; building of community institutions, including the university; Terminal Island Japanese fishing village; work/lives of oil workers (labor  collection) and Mexican workers on Rancho Los Alamitos (Mexican American collection); and women community builders (women’s history).

Jazz Composers, Musical Arrangers, and Performers - 4 narrators, 7 1/2 hours

Topics: musical developments in southern California.

Cambodian Community - 10 narrators, 18 hours

Topics: Cambodian community members who recount their lives after the fall of the Khmer Rouge to the first elections in 1993, largely in the Khmer language, in South East Asian Collection.

For access information: Contact Chloe Pascual chloe.pascual@csulb.edu

We do not have any finding aids on the OAC...yet! 

The provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections from libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California. Special Collections and University Archives is working hard to create and get our finding aids (collection guides) onto the OAC website. We recently became a contributing member, though we do not have any finding aids online yet.

Please check back in with us, as we are hoping to contribute finding aids soon! Please email us with any questions you have about our finding aids or collection guides.