Re: [ARSCLIST] Discographical files

[Steve Weiss <smweiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting...especially given our current discussion of archives and

> > archiving! I wonder how they arrived at "46 linear feet"...I presume it
> > took 46 feet of shelf space.
That's corrrect, we measured it by the size of the storage boxes the 
materials have been rehoused in.


> > I've never measured the space (most of my
> > discographic works are not actuallly "shelved" in a library sense of
> > that term...)?
> >
> > Also noted that a large part of their holdings are "typed lists of..."
> > and I wonder if these were typed by their staff...or typed by collectors
> > whose "estates" they managed to obtain. Note that there exist a large
> > number of individually-copied discographic lists or other informational
> > works which are best described as "privately published"...which means
> > "a few copies were mimeographed or otherwise copied, and made available
> > to a limited number of interested collectors, often "promoted" only via
> > "word of mouth!" I have a very few of these, and suspect that many more
> > exist...
The discographical work was done by members of and donors to the John 
Edwards Memorial Foundation.The JEMF was incorporated in 1962 as a 
non-profit organization to promote the study and dissemination of 
knowledge about American vernacular music of the 1920s-1940s.

For more info on the JEMF:

http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/j/John_Edwards_Memorial_Foundation

Best,

Steve Weiss
Director, Southern Folklife Collection