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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
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. 20 items: memos, letters, reports and other material on LAT Mag. Includes: memo regarding an award received by LAT from the National Women's Political Caucus (article was on presidential campaign of Rep. Patricia Schroeder) ; LAT staffer Linda Matthews winning recognition via the Unity Award in Media from Univ. of Missouri ; 5/5/1987 memo from Pat LoVerme to Tom Johnson on "Los Angeles Times Magazine trends," with approx. 12 attached pp. of charts and stats.
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3 items and related memos: major report, approx. 100-pp., reflecting reader reaction to LAT Magazine content, 10/1988 ; two shorter report (about 8-pp. each) headed "(LAT Mag.) Comments from Market Planning Interviews," 11/3/1987.
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9 items. Materials include: AP story, 4/20/1939, "Daro's payoff to sports scribes bared"; copy of article, 8/1980, Los Angeles (mag), "Read all about 'em, sports fans -- inside the Times' highly touted sports section..."; Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "It no longer is just fun-and-games"; LAT clip, 2/12/1961, "Members of the All-Star team"; pg. 1 of the first ever separate LAT Sports section, 7/9/1956, two related copied sheets; LAT Sports-related briefs and memos.
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Approx. 30 items: memos, letters, reports and other material on LAT Mag. Includes three major reports: "Focus group summaries for Pleasures [magazine], approx. 15-pp., 12/29/1983 - stamped "Confidential" ; approx. 20-pp. packet of 1/1984 comments from (reader) questionnaires about Pleasures magazine, a prototype product ; 37-pp. statistical report, "Subscriber's evaluation of the Pleasures prototype."
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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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