[78-L] Filing system (was 1st 78)

[David Lennick]

As long as the top record isn't I'm Getting Sedimental Over You. Particularly 
if you need and lack a dehumidifier.

dl

On 12/21/2010 7:16 PM, N7MW at aol.com wrote:
> I would hazard that the 'Pile' System is better described as a Sedimentary
> System, where the most recently acquired (or at least most recently
> accessed)  record is on top.  Perhaps dating of the pile structure can be done in a
>   fashion somewhat akin to tree-ring dating as used by Archaeologists in the
> SW  USA to date Indian ruins...
>
> Mike in Phoenix (my brother is an Archaeologist...)
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/21/2010 4:28:38 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
>
> On  12/21/2010 6:22 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> On 12/21/2010 4:28 PM, Taylor  Bowie wrote:
>>> Alas,  I am like the frog in the kettle of water  who didn't realize
> that it
>>> was gradually coming to a boil until it  was too late.
>>>
>>> I have no database for my 78s...it's all  in my head.  At this point I
> have
>>> neither the time nor the  inclination to put one together.
>>>
>>>   Taylor
>>>
>>
>> The attendees at the IASA (International  Assoc of Sound Archives)
>> conference are mostly cataloger types --  librarians and archivists --
>> and years ago I was one of the few  private collectors who attended.  I
>> once shocked several  Scandinavian lady librarians when they asked me
>> what cataloging system  I used (my collection was larger than some of
>> theirs) and I replied  "Now, on which pile did I see that record last?!"
>>
>> Mike  Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>   ________________________________
>
> That's always been my system as well,  despite occasional disruptions for
> things
> like moving (or in California,  earthquakes). That was how I turned up
> Auntie
> Macassar's Chicken Dinner  last week. Isn't there an official name for  it?
>
> dl
>