March 5, 2007: Organizing Research

Luther’s papers archived at the Schomburg Center are organized in four categories:

1. Personal Papers filling 8 archival storage boxes with file labels such as Ephemera, Household, Family Correspondence, Appointment Books, etc.
2. Production papers placed in larger cartons with legal size manila folders each labeled with the name of a show – starting with Broadway, then off-B’way/ regional, unproduced special concerts, television, dance, films, industrials, recordings, and finally shows for individual artists.
3. Photographs
4. Musical Scores

On my first trip to New York last September, over a three-day period, I tried various methods of note taking

• Typing directly into my laptop
• Typing into my palm with small wireless keyboard
• And dictating sotto voce into a Sony minidisc recorder

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