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  Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Guide to Databases

  Manuscripts

  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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  Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library

  Manuscripts

  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 (2 of 2)

  Manuscripts

  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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  Library (1 of 2)

  Manuscripts

  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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  Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1991 - David Shaw

  Manuscripts

  1 item: 5-pp. printout from Lexis-Nexis of LAT article of 4/10/1991, "Times reporter Shaw wins Pulitzer Prize for Criticism..."

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  Libraries - Los Angeles (1 of 2)

  Manuscripts

  Approx. 10 items: copy of LAT editorial, 8/3/1921, "The New Library" ; 49-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - Central Building," 1927 ; 64-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library Branches," 1928 ; 78-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - 1936" ; 9-pp. transcript of "Broadcast by Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Harold L. Hamill, City Librarian, Station KMPC," 10/12/1947 ; 108-pp. (plus Appendix) booklet, "Organization, Administration, and Management of the Los Angeles Public Library - Volume (3), Central Library," 1/1950 ; two 1986 newsletters with articles on the fires ; brochure, "Building, Art and Text - the Los Angeles Central Library," 9/1993 ; related materials. Split into two folders.

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