https://thebbrm.org/files/original/a721ec7bf8761e14d425f7dc78f0b20d.jpg c073c3ee24da83c0b2453d05436963fe https://thebbrm.org/files/original/a5cf02fa3912e50575520e54eaf5f408.jpg bc4e4ddeba8e40f745007c068c9dff9e https://thebbrm.org/files/original/d1e65309e7d9d9d6d8b198dddce6773f.jpg 19690463b355df3f45d142ba1da4be4e https://thebbrm.org/files/original/f9d9e600c7620f1643d32938064f16b5.jpg 1b042944765096e145a8aea0ad8a2476 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Engineer's Notes, 1972-3 Description An account of the resource Box 6 Folder 24: "And we move along to folder 24. This is just a guess but I could be wrong. But it’s dated from November 14, 1972 through January 17, 1973, and it looks like what an engineer would make a list of the things that they had done on a monthly basis and the hours expended for same so as to calculate their billing. And apparently, it’s not clear who owned this little blue book, but it’s all written in the standard blue book, which is how children did essay questions back in the day. And WJLD is written on the front cover. Also in this folder are various schematics. It looks very much like this would have been an engineer’s information sheet. And it is unclear at this point exactly whose information I’m looking at, but I can only be envious of the genius of people who could read these kinds of things. Anyway, that’s what we have, engineering information from the ‘70s, might have been Jimmy Jones, might have been Ben Franklin. It’s not clear. It’s unclear. Also included, "Methods used for Proof of Performance Tests," and on the flip of that, a strange ad from The Sound Doctor. He will listen to your voice and - not help you improve it - but he will use various filters to enhance it. Folder 24's contents are something, it seems to me these would have come from Ben Franklin. He was very precise. Not sure if I picked this up at his home when Gary and I were given some of his ephemera and artifacts after his passing in 1998, or if they were found in the WJLD files." 1970s Birmingham WJLD