MCLM GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
For years the Mayme Agnew Clayton Collection languished without a home. Now with the help of the City of Culver City and the County of Los Angeles, a former Los Angeles County Superior Court building located at 4130 Overland Avenue in Culver City (next door to Sony Pictures) has been leased to MCLM and has become home to the collection.
At 23,470 sq ft the collection’s new home is sufficiently large and secure to bring it out of storage and consolidate it under a single roof to facilitate its organization and care.
Panoramic photo shows the crowded and unsafe conditions in which the collection was housed. About 40% of the Literary Collection was stored in a renovated garage at the rear of Dr. Clayton’s Los Angeles area home.
After rescuing the collection in February 2007, it was packaged and shipped to a freezer facility where it was frozen for six weeks to decontaminate it of pests and to deactivate mold growth. The collection was retrieved from the freezers and placed in its new home April 2009. Now our immediate goals and objectives for the collection and MCLM operation are as follows:
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
I. The Collection
- Stabilize the collection
- Inventory and catalog the collection
II. The Facility
- Install environmental controls to protect the collection
- Secure appropriate housing for the collection, i.e. shelving, etc
- Renovate the facility to accommodate the collection and for
public use.
III. Staffing and Operating Costs
- Secure funding for staffing and operation
IV. Programming
- Launch limited programming keeping the focus on institutional development.
To fully implement our Stage 1 Goals and Objectives MCLM is seeking $8.5 million.
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