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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
1item: 3-pp. "Los Angeles Times Technology Fair" memo (6/24/1993), addressed to "All hands." Two forms are attached to the memo - "Editorial Development Volunteer" and "Proposal for Editorial Development Project."
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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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Approx. 15 items. Materials include: Among Ourselves article copies, 1960 - 1980, on various aspects of automating the Production Department; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 10/6/1973, "Recyclable plastic printing plate invented by L.A. Times."
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Approx. 25 items. Materials include: copied examples of LAT "Society" page, 1910 - 1940 (at least one prior to 1900); 1-pp. chronology which opens, "Here's a history of The Times "features" sections..."; clip, Among Ourselves, 10/1976, YOU debuts in The Times; 6-pp. typed, [by Nick B. Williams? - 1961] analysis of progress of "Family" section; 3-pp. memo, Dick Dunkel to Nick Williams, 10/13/1961, subject "Family Section Fashions; clip from Los Angeles magazine, ?/1966, "The new girls of Section IV," on Maggie Bellows and Joyce Haber taking on re-vamp of 'Section IV'"; copy of brief, 6/4/1994, Editor & Publisher, "(LAT) improves its lifestyle section"; analysis of LAT "women's pages" over the decades from various sources, including "25 Years of women's pages in L.A.," by academic Dorothy Stotsenberg (UCLA); other related memos.
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Approx. 12 items. Material includes: various chronological listings of LAT Editors; tear sheet of Among Ourselves, 6/1974, with photo essay, "The Senior Editors"; "Newspeak" column from L.A. Weekly (sarcastic coverage of other L.A. publications), 8/7-13/1987; 2-pp. (yellow) sheets with info on editor chrono., plus additional info on Harry Andrews, Leroy Mosher and Charles Lummis; dupes of some of above items; article, Time (mag), 6/28/1971, "Chandler's Change of Heart," on last minute switch by Otis Chandler in placing William F. Thomas into top Editor position instead of an earlier choice, Robert J. Donovan; article, Newsweek, 9/6/1971 (same topic as Time article; LAT article, undated, "Cotliar to replace Haven as Times Managing Editor."
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3 items: 91-pp. (unbound) Guide to databases in the Los Angeles Times Editorial Library, 9/1987, Revision #6; info sheet, 5/1990, 87 - 1992"Dialog OnDisc - Los Angeles Times"; 1 copy, 2/1992, "Library Update" newsletter, "Times Database will soon move in-house."
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