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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
8 items. Materials include: "Draft" Mission statement for LAT, dated 6/20/1989; 1957 memo from Norman Chandler to Department Heads on policy planning; complete Rotogravure Supplement; LAT - "Four Key Strategic Objectives" (11/1993); a 12-6-'93 NYT story about LAT - "Reporter (Michael Hiltzik) disciplined for reading his co-workers' electronic mail"; 1975 memo on LAT "Conflict of Interest" policy; 1995 memo on "Alcohol and Drug Policy"; undated 5-pp. LAT "Alcohol & Drug Policy."
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Approx. 40 items: memos, letters, reports and other material on LAT Mag. Includes: memo & report from Laura Morgan, Public Relations, on LAT Mag., 9/16/1985, with attached 7-pp. of "Media questions and answers" at the time LAT ceased publishing Home magazine ; 4-pp. article copied from Washington Journalism Review, 4/1985, "The new Los Angeles Times Magazine" ; memo, 7/5/1984, from Alan Parachini to Jean Sharley Taylor with attached 3-pp. of "story / profile ideas" ; 30-plus pp. (black clip) headed "Advertiser and Reader reactions to redesigned Sunday Magazine," 6/18/1984.
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Approx. 25 items. Material includes: copies of Among Ourselves clippings from late 1920s onward; LAT clips on subject of unions, LAT employee "census" counts; 1987 memo to LAT employees on availability of radon testing kits; booklet, "A report to the employees of the Times-Mirror Company" (1957); 6-pp. report, "Times Mirror / LAT info for Employees, ca. 1964"; memos and other info., 1988, on Temporary Help Agencies; 2/1/1989 clip from LAT, "20 at Times Costa Mesa plant charged with drug sales"; LAT Performance Appraisal Form, 1/1985; 14-pp. LAT "Employee Handbook, 1990"; etc.
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Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memo, 3/25/1977, reading, in part, "Effective today, the name of the Data Processing Department has been changed to Information Systems Department"; two LAT brochures, "Information Systems," (3/1978); memo, 9/17/1975, "Organizational Changes" (on name changes w/i Systems & Programming department; tabloid-sized issue, 12/6/1975, The Pac-Times Presenter, a joint publication of Pacific Telephone and LAT, describing the development of "a complete telecommunications system" by PacTel for LAT; article, Among Ourselves, 12/1949 (copy), "Tabulating Department's Mechanical Brains know all the answers"; article copy, 10/1977, Among Ourselves, "New Computer Center in Service"; booklet, 24-pp., 11/1961, The Corner Cut, L.A. Chapter National Machine Accountants Association, lead article, "History in Headlines," on LAT; Information Systems bulletin, 3-pp., 6/13/1989, "Personal Computer Security," 10-pp. sheaf, "Information Systems Bulletin--In-house personal computer software training"; 2-pp. memo, "Communications Services," 9/11/1990; memo, 11/7/1990, "Special Services Mail."
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5 items: LAT memo, 3/30/1987, regarding "Upcoming feature...'Notes of a counterrevolutionary' (in LAT Mag)" - memo notes that writer "Arturo Cruz is available to discuss his upcoming (LATMag) article on your program," aimed at radio/tv stations ; multi-page "Media questions and answers: Los Angeles Times Magazine" ; 2-pp. article copy, Adweek, 5/13/1986, "Can downsizing fatten Sunday magazines?" ; 6-pp. article copy, Columbia Journalism Review, 7-8/1986, "Sunday magazines: do they deserve to survive?" ; LAT memo, 3/20/1987, :LAT Magazine, preview of "Upcoming features - "A Latter Day tale of greed, forgery and deceit," and "The California Power Move."
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2 items: 3-pp. memo, "(LAT) Technology Fair," 6/24/1993; 1-pp. "Fact Sheet," listing and describing "new sources of information available through The Times," including TimeLink, MovieFone, Financial Fax, Mortgage Rate Fax, and other services.
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