Staff
Xaviera Flores, MS LIS
Librarian and Archivist,
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library
Issues:
Arts & Culture, Central Americans, Education, Environmental Justice & Climate Change, Health, Immigrant Rights, Jobs & Labor, Reproductive Justice, LGBTQIA, Latina Futures Library & Archive
Xaviera Flores, MS LIS
CSRC Librarian and Archivist
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Issues:
Xaviera Flores is the Librarian and Archivist at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. She oversees all library, archives, and museum services, including outreach, instruction, grant projects, and donor relations. She works closely with students and partner organizations to strengthen ties between the community and UCLA. Her work has been recognized by the California State Legislature (2018), and the Los Angeles City Historical Society (2019 Archives Education and Advocacy Award), and in 2020, she was named Open Archive Fellow for the Alliance for Media Arts and Cultures. In 2016, Flores stepped in as project director for the La Raza digitization project, supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. That same year, she also stepped in as co-principal investigator on the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant Providing Access to Mexican American Social History in Los Angeles, 1960s and 1970s. She is currently the co-principal investigator on the NEH grant Religion, Spirituality, and Faith in Mexican American Social History, 1940s-Present; and she is overseeing the library team processing the CSRC women and LGTBQ+ archival collections and making them available for research and teaching as part of the Latina Futures 2050 Lab initiative. In 2014, Flores co-authored the paper “Breaking the Language Barrier: Describing Chicano Archives with Bilingual Finding Aids” in the American Archivist. Her work focuses on community archives, providing U.S. Latines greater access and agency over their history and culture. In her research, she looks at BIPOC experiences within archival access, digitization, and representation by exploring existing barriers at the foundations of academia and library sciences and the impact colonialism, western ideology, and institutionalized racism have within archival praxis and technology. Flores has worked in libraries since 2004 and holds an MS in library and information science from Simmons University.
Xaviera Flores is the Librarian and Archivist at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. She oversees all library, archives, and museum services, including outreach, instruction, grant projects, and donor relations. She works closely with students and partner organizations to strengthen ties between the community and UCLA. Her work has been recognized by the California State Legislature (2018), and the Los Angeles City Historical Society (2019 Archives Education and Advocacy Award), and in 2020, she was named Open Archive Fellow for the Alliance for Media Arts and Cultures. In 2016, Flores stepped in as project director for the La Raza digitization project, supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. That same year, she also stepped in as co-principal investigator on the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant Providing Access to Mexican American Social History in Los Angeles, 1960s and 1970s. She is currently the co-principal investigator on the NEH grant Religion, Spirituality, and Faith in Mexican American Social History, 1940s-Present; and she is overseeing the library team processing the CSRC women and LGTBQ+ archival collections and making them available for research and teaching as part of the Latina Futures 2050 Lab initiative. In 2014, Flores co-authored the paper “Breaking the Language Barrier: Describing Chicano Archives with Bilingual Finding Aids” in the American Archivist. Her work focuses on community archives, providing U.S. Latines greater access and agency over their history and culture. In her research, she looks at BIPOC experiences within archival access, digitization, and representation by exploring existing barriers at the foundations of academia and library sciences and the impact colonialism, western ideology, and institutionalized racism have within archival praxis and technology. Flores has worked in libraries since 2004 and holds an MS in library and information science from Simmons University.
