Mainspring Press will be undergoing some big changes during 2017, as we make the transition from traditional printed discographies to digital distribution.
The most exciting news is that we will be shifting our discographical efforts to the online Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR), an initiative of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Packard Humanities Institute. You may already know DAHR from its outstanding work in digitizing Victor and other major-label data, but that’s just the beginning. We’ll be working with them on the minor-label material, including a large amount of previously unpublished data from our Bill Bryant / Record Research Associates holdings and other archives. More details to come as work gets under way.
Contrary to rumor, Mainspring Press is not going out of business, although it is being reorganized as we wind down the printed-discography portion of it. Although we won’t be printing any new discographies, we will continue to provide and license discographical data in other formats. We also hope to resume publishing new text and graphic works later this year, including the monumental Encyclopedia of American Record Companies and Producers, 1888–1950, which is fast approaching the 850-page mark (and counting).
Filed under: 78 and Other Disc Records, 78 rpm Record Information, 78 rpm Record Labels, American national discography, Discographies, Discography of Victor Recordings, Record Labels & Companies, Record Research, Recording ledgers and files Tagged: Discography of Historical American Recordings, free 78 record discography discographies, information on old 78 records, online 78 rpm record discographies, University of California - Santa Barbara
