[78-L] Talking Machine World and / or Review

[Malcolm Rockwell]

That's it! Thanks.
Mal

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Glenn Longwell wrote:
> This is the SIBL branch on 34th and Madison.  That's where I've used them numerous times.
> Glenn
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> --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com> wrote:
>
> From: Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Talking Machine World and / or Review
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 6:16 PM
>
> The branch of the NYPL at 5th Avenue and 40th Street (not absolutely 
> sure of this location, but it's near the main branch) where most of the 
> AV equipment is housed has all of TMW bound. You can probably track them 
> down thru the library's database. I used them last
>  I was in NYC, 8 years 
> ago.
> Mal
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> Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
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>> There was a magazine called Talking Machine World (TMW). Now I read 
>> somewhere about a magazine called Talking Machine Review. Was this a 
>> misprint for TMW?
>> Has such a magazine been digitized for easy access by researchers?
>>
>>
>> Talking Machine World is a very difficult publication to source. Even 
>> information about its years of publication is often incorrect. I 
>> believe the reason for the scarcity of its issues today is that it was 
>> a trade magazine, and therefore regarded by people in the trade as 
>> disposable once the next issue arrived. Although other trade magazines 
>> were published contemporaneously with TMW, TMW stands as THE 
>> inexhaustible source for information about sound recordings and the 
>> recording industry during the years of its publication. Check the
>>     
>  
>   
>> internet for “talking machine world” and you will find various websites 
>> that may prove helpful.
>>
>> Talking Machine World from January 15, 1905 to December 15, 1928 and 
>> Talking Machine World & Radio Music Merchant from January 15, 1929 to 
>> December 15, 1930 are available on microfilm through the Center for 
>> Research Libraries (CRL), a consortium of North American universities, 
>> colleges, and independent research libraries. Not available are the 
>> last two years of publication, January 15, 1931 through December 15, 
>> 1932. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital 
>> resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member 
>> institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. Based 
>> at the University of Chicago, CRL has a web site at: 
>> wwwcrl.uchicago.edu. By working through a CRL member
>>     
>  university 
>   
>> library, you may then be able to access CRL materials. Web site 
>> click-ons include: Collection Search Links, CRL Member Institutions, 
>> Search Collection Databases, How to Use CRL Collections, and more.  I 
>> have seen copies of TMW&RMM from the period January 15, 1931 through 
>> December 15, 1932 in bound volumes in a private collection.
>>