Digital Collections

General Education Requirements Archives
General Education Sections from the CSULB Schedule of Classes and Catalogs are available in a digital format. 

Archived CSULB Catalogs/Bulletins
Historical CSULB 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.

The Daily Forty-Niner and Student Publication Online Archive

This archive houses the Daily Forty-Niner Newspaper (now called the LB Current) editions dating back from 1949 to March 2023 and editions of DIG MAG and DÍG en Español (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)
CSULB 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. 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. You can hear the voice, pitch, and rhythm of the narrations as well as the emotions these convey. You will hear the actual spoken words of oral history narrators, rather than seeing a written version of them in the form of a transcript. The CSULB oral history collections have been assembled from a number of sources and cover topics ranging from women's social history, labor and ethnic studies to Long Beach Area history and the musical developments in Southern California. Some of the interviews in the Asian American, Mexican American and women's history collections were recorded as early as 1972 and include interviews with narrators who were born in the mid to late 19th century. Presently, more than 1000 hours with 350 very diverse narrators are available.

For permission to reuse the content found in VOAHA, please fill out this form: https://www.csulb.edu/university-library/form/voaha-use-permissions-request

Below you will find a small sampling of the subjects you can find in the Oral Histories in VOAHA: 

American Indian Studies
The American Indian Studies program at CSULB, founded in 1969.

Asian American History 
The interviews included in this Collection are limited to those independently collected by the South Bay Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.

Black Studies
Description in Progress.

Labor History 
The four series in this collection focus on the lives and activities of workers in five industries, and cover the period from the 1920s and 1930s to the 1960s: Desegregating Unions During WWII, Garment Workers, Labor Activists, and Oil Workers.

Long Beach Area History 
Subjects include: Community Builders, The Development of CSULB, Petroleum Entrepreneurs, Signal Hill, Subsidence and Tidelands, and Terminal Island.

Mexican American/Chicano
Subjects include: The Mexican Revolutions, Chicano Student Movement, and Rancho Los Alamitos: Hotchkiss Collection.

Musical Developments in Southern California
The collection is comprised of four series, the first of which is focused on performing and composing musicians active in southern California, 1920s to mid-1960s. Subjects include: Institutions, Performers and Composers, University Composers, and Jazz in Southern California.

Southeast Asian Communities
Subjects include: Hmong, Life in Cambodia 1979-1993, and Cambodian Life Histories.

The Sixties: Los Angeles Area Social Movements/Activists 
The series grouped here under the rubric of “the sixties” are comprised of interviews that were conducted as part of various other projects, including classes, and under varying auspices at both the university and in the at both the university and in the community. Unfortunately, this resulted in the absence of any series focused on the Black movement(s) of the period. Subjects include: Reformers and Radicals, Chicana Feminists, Los Angeles Feminists, Feminist Health Movement, Asian American Women's Movement Activists, and Welfare Mothers and Welfare Rights.

Women's History 
These interviews were initiated in 1972 as part of the Feminist History Research Project (FHRP), a community-based project co-founded by Sherna Berger Gluck and Ann Forfreedom at the Westside Women's Center in Los Angeles. Subjects include: Professionals and Entrepreneurs, Reformers and Radicals, Rosie the Riveter Revisited, Suffragists, and Women's Live and Women's Work 1900-1960.

If you do not see the interview you are looking for, please email Chloe.Pascual@csulb.edu

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

The Online Archive of California (OAC) 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.