 An effort is currently underway to make certain documents available online through the Online Archive of California.CEMA was founded in 1988 by Joseph A. Boissé and Salvador Güereña, both UCSB librarians.The library already had a substantial collection of primary and secondary-sources in the "Colección Tloque Nahuaque", a library of Chicano studies materials, and the need for special resources to preserve and catalogue
primary resources became apparent.