Does this man look happy?
![Nat opening boxes Reel-to-reel tapes fromthe Jack Saul Collection](http://rsa.fau.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Nat-opening-boxes.jpg)
Reel-to-reel tapes from the Jack Saul Collection
“It’s like my birthday and Channukah all rolled into one,” says an excited Nathan Tinanoff as he begins upacking some of the 730 boxes of recordings that arrived at FAU Libraries from Cleveland on Sept. 11, 2009.
After one week, the JSA team had unpacked and fully processed over eight hundred 78rpm recordings. The information on each record label is carefully checked against the JSA database to ascertain if a copy of the recording is already in the JSA collection. Out of the 800 recordings, 69 are new to the collection and 47 are in better condition that what we previously had.
About 815 LPs have been processed. It has been determined that 132 of these are new to the collection. We have also unpacked another 120 LPs which are unopened and sealed in the original plastic wrappers.
Nat is a happy man. “What is really exciting is that this is just the tip of the iceberg!”
![album of 45 rpms 45 rpm records](http://rsa.fau.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/album-of-45-rpms.jpg)
45 rpm records
![Unpacking LPs Unpacking LPs](http://rsa.fau.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Unpacking-LPs.jpg)
Unpacking LPs
Although he admits that it is a little overwhelming Nathan Tinanoff could not hide his amazement when the Saul family found two floors of a warehouse packed with recordings floor to ceiling that they previously knew nothing about. “I think this might mean another tractor-trailer loaded with recordings,” Nat says.