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How the site is prepared
How to help preserve the rapidly
disappearing publications of radio
How you can help
Please contribute documents. This
site is prepaid for 10 years
and backed up offsite and kept by
other radio historians.
This site is a library. You may read
and research. Documents are copy
protected.
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About this
website |
I am missing
the 1936, 1937, 1939,
1940, 1942 and 1947
Broadcasting Yearbooks and
the 1954 Radio Annual. There
are missing Radex, White's
Logs and RCA Broadcast News
that can be seen from the
numbered lists on each of
those publications pages. Check your attic or
garage. Look in the storage room at the transmitter.
Ask at our local library; seldom consulted reference
books are often discarded or sold in bulk.
Help me find and preserve
these books for others to
study and enjoy. Whether you
wish to sell them or donate
them or just to help track
them down, you can help me
preserve the history of
radio and these harder and harder to
find resources,
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How these pages are
made
and
why I
do them. |
Publications of
extreme value that I
do not own are photo
scanned by Atiz
equipment so as to
protect the paper
and binding.
Other publications
are
either cut at the
binding on a printer's guillotine paper cutter
(most were discarded library copies, already bound and
"mutilated"). Then the sheets are scanned by a
Fujitsu fi6670 or a Fujitsu Fi 6130. These are a
high speed sheet fed scanners of different sizes
which can process batches of 200 pages on both
sides in just a few minutes. An array of Canon
flatbeds is used for delicate or mutilated
pages. The coated paper used in the late 50's
and early 60's is now very brittle and these
editions must be hand fed or flatbed scanned.
Fortunately, these ageing books are now
preserved... unlike the very, very few remaining copies at
university libraries and the like, which are
crumbling and being discarded.
In all,
6 different scanners are used, each one
appropriate for one specific task.
The deterioration
of the old yearbooks and magazines is just one
factor in my decision to try to preserve the
heritage of radio's premier publication. The
other is the fact that most libraries are short
on space and funding. This means that seldom
used publications are sold to eBay merchants and
every day that passes there are fewer places
where this information can be obtained. Most of
these specialized publications were not
microfilmed... and who has a film reader at
home, anyway? |
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New scan system
If
you have documents to loan
to this site they will be
reproduced on the finest
equipment available for the
purpose.
Scanning can be done without
stressing the binding and
with gentle LEd ligtsing and
semi-automated page
handling.
For full data, see
http://www.atiz.com/ |
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Click above for
details on how
the system
works. Click
below for a full
video of the
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I've just
ordered the Atiz
Bookdrive Mini
which uses SLR
cameras, |
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Few Libraries have these
publications and even fewer
allow them to be checked
out. |
This
site's content is 128 bit copy
protected.
Use it like a library.
"Broadcasting,"
the magazine, has evolved and now focuses on
cable and syndication; the latest publisher has
not offered any service for the students and
devotees of radio's history and heritage.
The Yearbook is very hard to find (a
trial search in the huge LA metro
for several 80's and 90's issues
came up with no surviving copies). As
library access is now scarce and generally
incomplete and no alternative exists I have
tried to fill in this very obvious void.
Hopefully, at some time the publisher will
create an electronic archive. Until such time, I
will share my collection and attempt to keep
building it. White's, Radex and Radio Daily are
long gone, as is the SAMS / Jones log. I am
attempting to build a full archive of these
publications.
Since this is
a free site,
as it always will be, many have asked, "why do
you do it?" since some of the Yearbooks have
cost as much as $1,000 on eBay. Simply put, I
celebrated 50 years in radio in 2009, and this
endeavor is a small way to preserve the
memories, the heritage and the events of that
industry, particularly at a time when the death
of our medium is so broadly predicted.
This site is
my small contribution to the industry and
profession that have given me challenges, joy,
frustration and, of course, an income for half a
century. |
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I have placed security on many
of the documents to prevent this from
becoming a download site rather than a
virtual library. All
publications and directories are locked. While you can read
online, you can not download, save or print them. All
publications available on this site are scanned to be readable
but are not of sufficient resolution for distribution, printing
or otherwise reproducing.
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