Manuscripts

Departments - Administrative Services

Description: Approx. 25 items. Most items are LAT "Management Bulletins" or "Employee Bulletins," 1983 - 1990. Also a 1958 Philip Chandler memo on LAT mail procedures and mail costs, and 1989 LAT flyer, "The Case of the Relocated Departments," to explain (with humor) how to find departments that had been relocated across Spring St. from Times Mirror Square (text, map and illustrations).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1958, 1983 - 1990
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.

Departments - Employee Relations - Personnel

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items. Materials include: 35+ Management Bulletins, 1984 - 1990, subjects include new hires, transfers and promotions of LAT staff; flyer (green), "Season's Greetings - Employee Relations, 1986"; flyer, undated, "Meet Adrien Arnold -- new Times Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator," includes more info on Ms. Arnold and her position. (includes photograph)

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Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Counseling Service

Manuscripts

4 items: two Bulletins, 9/15/1983, on Employee Counseling Service, 9/12/1988, on Parenting Classes; flyer, 9/1987, a schedule of Employee Counseling Service locations and hours; flyer (undated) "Introducing The Times' Employee Counseling Service counselors -- they're here to help you."

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Departments - Circulation

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: 3-pp. report in clear plastic sleeve, "Times circulation in the early years" (date of 1908 or after indicated); photocopy of Among Ourselves article, "Those Glorious Old Days," 10/1928; adv. flyers, 1981, for LAT-published book, Los Angeles 200: a Bicentennial Celebration, & mail order forms in plastic sleeve; 1 copy, LAT "Circulation Sales Manual" (1932); six reproductions of 1912 LAT promo. post cards; spiral-bound circulation sale booklet, "Good News for Southern California" (ca. 1966); employee bulletins/news releases on to circulation. sales; labor flyer of OC picketers, 10/30/1975, headed "(LAT) seizes power and control -- HELP STOP THE TAKEOVER; various circulation. promo materials; L.A. Business Journal article, 9/5/1994, "...Times continues to dominate the war of words." 1 photograph: snapshot of a man and woman at the circulation desk, undated.

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Departments - Administrative Services - Purchasing Policies & Procedure

Manuscripts

Item: one copy, unbound, "Purchasing Policies and Procedures," 154 pp. (1988, 1989,1990)

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Departments - Employee Relations - Service Awards

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 6 Management Bulletins, 1987 - 1990, related to LAT service awards and service anniversaries; 22-pp. transcript of 1981 Service Award program remarks, 2/17/1981, by Tom Johnson (LAT Publisher), which take the form of a quick history of LAT and its previous publishers; 2 copies, (blue) program booklet for LAT Service Awards Presentation, 1981; LAT event name badge of "Carolyn Strickler - Archives - 5 Years"; copy of invitation and other items related to 1985 LAT Service Awards, held January 1986; 1989, 1990 LAT Service Awards folders, containing gift catalogs showing gifts available for various service anniversaries

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Alphabetical File - B

Manuscripts

Approx. 65 items: memos and bulletins related to planning, procedures and operations at LAT in the 1930 - 1937 time frame. H.E. Downing originated many of these items.

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