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Description: Approx. 55 items: memos, letters and reports, most related to implementing a full-text (electronic) storage and retrieval system for LAT. Major items: 46-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Editorial Library User Survey" (by Cecily Surace), 11/1980 ; 33-pp. report headed "Editorial Library Indexing Policy," (Surace) 12/10/1980. Spilt into two folders.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1980 - 1983
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Approx. 55 items: memos, letters and reports, most related to implementing a full-text (electronic) storage and retrieval system for LAT. Major items: 46-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Editorial Library User Survey" (by Cecily Surace), 11/1980 ; 33-pp. report headed "Editorial Library Indexing Policy," (Surace) 12/10/1980. Spilt into two folders.

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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.

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Library

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Approx. 35 items: memos, letters and reports, most related to implementing a full-text (electronic) storage and retrieval system for LAT.

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Library (2 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 65 items: memos, letters and reports, related to Editorial Library operations and its interface with Editorial at large. Items include: 39+ pp. report titled "A management and functional review of the Los Angeles Times Library" ; many memos and other material related to upgrading the library and its staff ; etc. Split into two folders.

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Weegar, Ted

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1 item: 76-pp. transcript of interview with Ted Weegar, an LAT editor involved with the electronic editing system, etc. Notable names and subjects include: Weegar and interviewer Berges jump around a bit but much of the interview has to do with the electronic editing system ; Cecily Surace comes from RAND to be LAT Library Director and modernizes that department (pp. 18 - 20) ; description of the emerging electronic system of feeding stories between writers, editors and the data bank in the Editorial Library (around pp. 29) ; pagination (pp. 33) ; Weegar's childhood and youth (pp. 35 - 37) ; what led him into journalism (pp. 50) ; Richard Nixon (pp. 52 - 53) ; around 1960, Weegar was chosen to start up the LAT Opinion section (pp. 57 - 59) ; "those early years (with) Otis (as) publisher were terribly fun" (pp. 62 - 63).

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