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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
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
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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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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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: brief profiles of LAT, along with other media companies from Time (1964), Business Week (3/1971), Editor & Publisher (4/1971), etc. Major items: 12-pp. copied from The Atlantic, 7/1969, "The American Media Baronies..." ; pp. 54-58, copied from Saturday Review, 2/13/1971, "What is black and white and the tenth largest industry in the country?" ; booklet, "An extended view of public attitudes toward television and other mass media 1959-1971," Roper Organization, 6/1971 ; booklet, "Summary of Operating Results - Major Publicly held newspaper companies, 1966-1970," (reprint from Editor & Publisher, 7/17/1971) ; complete issue, Finance--the Magazine of Money, 4/1973 ; reprint from Time (mag), 7/8/1974, "The Press...fair of foul," (incl. two articles) ; 12-part series reprinted from The Washington Post, "The Newspaper Business," orig. published beginning 7/24/1977 ; complete issue, Columbia Journalism Review, "Supermarketing the newspaper," 9/1977.
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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. 20 items: program materials, reprints of business articles, economic information & handwritten notes. Notable items include: 10-pp. program booklet for "Executive Seminar, Los Angeles Times...(9/16/1969) ; multi-page report, "The California Economy to 1980," including multi-page attachment, "Economic Growth in California..." with statistics and future projections for years 1950 - 1980 ; 7-pp. reprint from Media / scope, 4/1968, "What kind of tomorrow for today's newspapers?" ; 4-pp. reprint from Nation's Business, 1963, "Great opportunities ahead...[predictions about] the successful businessman of 1975" ; two Editor & Publisher articles from 1968.
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