[BC] Arrested for just telling people where to find Copywrited material.

[Mark Humphrey]

I wonder who makes the decisions on what to keep or what to throw away.

Drexel University in Philadelphia is noted for having a large college
of Engineering, so I stopped in their library last year to see if they
might have any interesting broadcast technical books.  It turns out
that nearly all of these have been purged from the stacks, apparently
to make room for computer books.

However, among the remaining handful of radio publications, I did find
one interesting Department of Commerce/NTIA study that was published
in the early '80s.  Written at taxpayer expense, it explained how
outlying FM stations could be "moved in" to the Dallas-Fort Worth
market, laying the blueprint for what has actually happened since
then.

A few enterprising station owners (or their consultants) apparently
read this report and realized the potential.   So, they bought out the
rural "mom and pops", picked communities desperately needing a "first
service" (like Flower Mound, Decatur, Krum, and Pilot Point), moved
the transmitters, sold the sticks, and made a bundle of money --
thanks to NTIA.

Mark

On 10/21/07, Alan H Kline <akline at netins.net> wrote:
> It's sad to see what a lot of libraries think is no longer
> relevant or needed by today's researchers...
>
> Volume after volume of the SMPTE Journal, "Radio
> Broadcast" from the 1920's, "Electric Railway Journal",
> and so many others...thousands of books on just about
> anything you can think of related to the history of our
> culture...
>