https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/d095b11b4e0eae8c0bbb660d14f83cb9.jpg 5cb992fb33a3a8a2dddbf561572535dd https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/6d709bfa245d11089ab44c2c8a5fc0ef.jpg 4932d3b94d87a51b2616270eced0a87e https://www.thebbrm.org/files/original/3ac029631f215f695c03421d76032183.jpg c0762524cc3fc2734abac7faea45b109 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 Maintenance Log, WSMQ Description An account of the resource Box 8 Folder 48: "Alright, moving right along to folder 48. 10 8x10 sheets, all written in pencil here. Monthly services performed at WSMQ 1450 AM from January through August of 1987. These were electronic maintenance services done by an engineer (unknown). And the listing of the services done by this engineer were written on the back of a WIXI 1480 AM broadcast order, 5000 watts, which would eventually become WLPH out in Irondale, playing predominantly church programming. Broadcast Yearbooks list WIXI as the first calls for 1480 Irondale but with nothing constructed until 1964 at which time the call was WLPH. These service logs are very telling of the technology of the time, written in pencil, in print, not script, on the back of scrap sheets of paper. Who was this engineer that was doing all this work? We have no indication of who the engineer was. There are a couple of pieces of stationary in here with the heading “The Sound Doctor,” Post Office Box 3694, Birmingham, 35211. We don’t know if that is the moniker of a particular engineer but maybe somebody else does. The slogan of the Sound Doctor was “Your sound is your only product." Also, on the back of the July billing, a letter from Robert Casebolt from Schweber Electronics of Huntsville, thanking the Society of Broadcast Engineers for their invite to an SBE monthly meeting. OK, moving right along. Possibly found at the home of Engineer Ben Franklin in Calera or at the Bessemer Rd WAYE location in Five Points West." 1980s Irondale Maintenance Robert Casebolt Schweber Electronics Society of Broadcast Engineers WIXI WLPH WSMQ