Being a poor college student (grades and finances LOL) in the 80's, I asked the Librarian at IUPUI's library what they did with the previous year's Broadcasting Yearbook's. Her reply seemed terse and hateful, "we incinerate them." She saw the look on my face and she said "truthfully, we can't sell them (they had book sales of disused books) nor can we give them away because (the books) were granted to us". . . then she said, "oh, hold on." She took me down to the basement and right next to the door to some kind of incineration and shredding device was a stack of boxes. She pulled out the yearbooks (one for Radio and TV/Cable IIRC) and snuck them over to me. A covert operation. I felt like such the criminal. They would have been gone by the end of the day. Lugged those things around in my now crammed full book bag, all day.
I may have to see if they are still @ mom's house as David Gleason does have some gaps. 73, Dave in Indy ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:56:28 -0400 From: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: [IRCA] Broadcasting Yearbook folds Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Bowker Publications has announced that the 2010 Broadcasting Yearbook is the final one. It was no longer of much use to me, but in days of yore I spent many an hour with it in the Knoxville and University of TN libraries, checking to see which Construction Permits may have kicked in. It and the Standard Rates and Data Spot Radio directories were treasure troves of info about the names of owners, engineers, and other station staff (Remember "news director"? "sports director"? "program director"?), useful for addressing reception reports and DX test requests. David Gleason's website has dozens of scanned Broadcasting Yearbooks; the oldest is from 1935, so it had been around for at least 75 years. RIP old buddy. Steve Francis Alcoa, Tennessee ******************************* _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
