Re: [ARSCLIST] ARSC Journal needed..repeat

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sorry, I cited the wrong issue (15:1 instead of 13:1) but the one I 
> > want is also out of print.
> > 1981
> > Vol 13:1 (Out of Print)
> > A Discotopolgy Primer; Discography--Pre-LP Recordings of RCA at 33 1/3 
> > rpm, 1931-1934, Part 1: Selective Discography of the Civil Rights 
> > Movement; book and record reviews.
> Since one assumes that copies (or at least ONE copy...?!) of these "out 
> of print"
> items MUST still exist...would it not be possible...even simple...to use 
> a scanner
> to create digital images of these...which could then be printed out as 
> someone
> might request...?!
>
> While the digitization of information has been problematic for those in 
> charge of
> preserving it...it has also substantially simplified the process thereof 
> (even if the
> archived data has yet to reflect that fact...?!)!!

I wonder why all the ARSC archives aren't online somewhere..even for pay.
> BTW...wotinell is "discotopology?!"

A Charlie Parker record.
> Since we know that "topology" involves the study of what are essentially
> one-dimensional surfaces..."discotopology, " it seems, would involve the
> study of the surfaces of phonorecords...and thus, by logical extension.
> concern the playing of IMAGES of these same phonorecord surfaces...?!
>
> Right?!

It sounds like something I don't want to know about, possibly requiring thin 
membranous gloves and a sedative.

dl