[78-L] BREAKING NEWS, OR BRAKING NEWS!

[Thom Whetston]

The disks from Ft Lewis are library disks, the music for DJ shows.  When
AFRTS went from vinyl to cd they called back all of the library disks from
all of the stations.  The stations had mostly complete collections.  We were
told that between all of the sets, they came up with a full one.  I've never
heard of LOC missing library disks.  If you have details, I'd be interested.


The program disks are a different story.  Every week 1943-97 30-50 hours of
programming went out, either recorded from US networks or recorded at AFRTS.
Those disks cover so much ground that LOC is probably the only place with
storage to collect them.  Most of this programming destroyed after
broadcast, per the licensing agreement.

Nothing in the FT Lewis reports that I've seen indicate program disks.


>The Library of Congress does NOT have a full set. I have extensively
>researched what they have in certain series and they are clearly
incomplete.
>I have several AFRS discs that the Library does not have. The Library does
>not have a catalogue of the AFRS collection but they have been sorted into
>series and there are crude finding aids.

>There are MANY discs after 1947 that are not released records. Many radio
>broadcasts.

>Kevin Mostyn