NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE:
PAStimes
In 2005 we decided to move all
archived issues
of our newsletter to digital form. The motivation behind this was
to eliminate the bulky hardcopy archive that had been
accumulating over the years, safeguard this informational legacy
in a form less susceptible to loss, and allow members easier
access for research or other purposes.
We began the lengthy conversion
process in
2006. Some of the more recent issues were already in digital
form, older issues required scanning. The decision was made to approach this task in two phases. In Phase 1, we
will scan the older newsletters, one page at a time, to an
uncompressed TIF format using 300 dpi grayscale . This will
work well with most
OCR software, and keep the total storage space required within
reasonable limits. In Phase 2 we will OCR the scanned pages and
assemble them into text-searchable PDF's, preserving columns and
graphics. This is still a work in progress.
By
convention, we will label the newsletters with the month of
the meeting announced therein, regardless of when it was printed
or distributed. Also for consistency, the archived files will be
labeled (for example) 1974-09.pdf to avoid all ambiguity. During
Phase 1 the TIF files will be available as zipped folders
containing the individual pages and similarly labeled, e.g.,
1974-09.zip. This will preclude the need to increase our website
storage space on the hosting server.
Entries
in the chart below are color-coded. If the color is
that of a standard
link,
then it is active and downloadable. If the color is the same as
this text, then we are still working on
it. If
the color is red,
we are missing that issue and would love to get a copy if you
have it. If so, please contact the Editor.
Previous
to becoming PAS, the POA may have had a newsletter,
but no known copies have survived. If you know of any copies,
again, please let us know. It is of interest to note that, in the
early years of PAS (ca. 1974-78), the newsletter was known as
"Sky-Lines." From 1979-1985, our newsletter had no
official name. With the October 1985 issue, under the Editorship
of Steve Lewis, it became known as "PAStimes." Although
the reasons for the choice of this name may seem obvious, there
was no discussion of its genesis, or credit given for the name,
in any of the newsletters from that year. Note that, for a few of
the early years, the publication schedule differed from that of
the present.
You
can view the historical record of Editors HERE.
To
download any issue, right-click on the month you want and
then choose "save target as." Or you can left-click on it
and it will open in your browser. All files are in either PDF
for zip format and range from 100k to 4M in size.
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