It's 71F and sunny here in Los Angeles -- at least it is in Hollywood. West side is probably cooler, the Valley is probably warmer. I'm working my tuchas to pieces today. Later I'll take a nap, go to the gym, and help my wife pack for her flight tomorrow. This is normally when I would say "I don't have anything smart to report." That phrase is my defense mechanism when I have things on my mind but I don't think anyone really wants to hear about them. I miss my Boston friends, I'm scared about becoming a parent in the next year or so, I need to quit eating chocolate again, I don't feel creative anymore. I miss having a real-world community. I'm considering joining a local tech lab (Crash Space in Culver City) so I have a place to meet more people, maybe get my amateur radio license so I can play with remote homebrew objects. If I could, I'd go back to doing community radio. I miss that more than anything. I listened to the KMET reunion weekend on 100.3 The Sound this weekend and it just made me horribly home sick for WHRW Binghamton.
My buddy is part of WHRW and gave me a tour of the place last summer. Wonderful place, particularly the archives. It's what got me into working at my own college radio station's archives.
That library is one of the largest in the Northeast. You probably saw Studio A, with the desk of boom mics? I paid for the microphone and preamp replacement back in... 2007, I think? It was a fun way to spend Christmas.
I couldn't tell you, we weren't there very long. I know the one studio I saw was off to the left when you walked in, and the library was more or less straight ahead. It didn't seem that large to me; or at least it's about the same size as my college's radio library. Maybe they're both considered large collections. My friend is in charge of the budget this year and is always rattling on about stuff I don't understand, mostly involving funding for various pieces of equipment. All I can say is he seems to enjoy it a lot.
We screwed up with the library's physical size when they moved the station from the 2nd floor of the old union to the basement of the new union. We needed more space as it was (we had about 35,000 recordings when I graduated in 1996, split between three rooms) and we wound up with about as much space as we already had. I would guess that there are 45-50k albums and CDs in that library, many of them impossible to replace.