[78-L] Large University Throwing away records?

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 06:23 PM 7/3/2009, you wrote:
>Aaaaaaaak!
>
>Okay, got that out of my system..and I'm sure it's not unusual, 
>whenever space
>is needed for something "more important". About 5 years ago I hauled away a
>couple of thousand 78s from Hobart-William Smith College in Geneva NY. They
>weren't free but they were the next best thing, about 3 for a buck, 
>and most of
>this stuff had been part of a Carnegie Collection that had hardly 
>been played.
>But at least in this case, a dealer was notified and he called a 
>collector (me)
>and a few other people got in on the deal.
>
>dl

I think every college or university that decides to throw away 
records should notify collectors to come haul away all they want (for 
free would be really nice) before those records hit a landfill. What 
I wonder is does the University Of Texas Fine Arts Library still have 
records of any speed in it's collection? Or were they gotten rid of 
sometime back & I never knew about it?