Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is an artist-run archive and non-circulating library in which contemporary creative processes are recorded and preserved. Our goal is the study and dissemination of materials documenting contemporary art production. Our aim is to shift narratives that have been misrepresented or left out of "memory institutions". LACA works closely with artists who write their descriptive meta-data into the database, determining, and contextualizing their materials and knowledge in their own terms.