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