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Re: 16" LPs



Regarding the request for help with LPs:


> 3.  Can anyone recommend a vendor that has the equipment and
> expertise to do the copying at a reasonable cost?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you can give.


I had to laugh at this, and certainly mean no reflection on Schlessinger
 (Ms.); but was it so long ago that we all had "equipment and
expertise" with turntables and records, as we used to call them?
Now they are history, both literally and figuratively.  Does that
mean I'm getting old?  We have an ancient turntable, big enough to
manage those big transcription disks, that I treat like a holy grail or
something because I'm afraid if it breaks down I'll never find another
one.

Since it's Friday, traditionally a low-key day on ARCHIVES-L,
another example of this same thing that made me laugh.  We
recently had a request to look through some football films from the
1960s.  I didn't have time to do it, but I have a young man who
works for me, a student, about 22.  So I took him into our AV room
and sat him down.  Here's the film, here's the Craig viewer, I told
him; he looked at me completely blank. He's plenty smart but had
never ever been exposed to a 16mm film in school or anywhere
else.  So I had to show him how to thread it, and so on; he was
fascinated and kept saying over and over "this is so cool!"  I
thought back to all those days as a kid, when the teacher would
announce a film, and there was always one classmate who could
thread and run the projector; and how watching a film meant the
lights were out, so you could doze or cut up with your friends.

I guess I am getting old; as I always say, though, when you
consider the alternative to getting old, it's not so bad.

Happy Friday,


Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
(801) 585-3073  //  fax (801) 585-3976
rwebb@library.utah.edu

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