[78-L] Large University Throwing away records?

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 08:55 PM 7/6/2009, you wrote:
>Good question, Robert.  I'm in Austin tomorrow and I think I'll drop by the
>library and see what they say.

Maybe Dr Carl Miller (if he is still there) can help you with our 
question.  Anyway please let us know if they still have records plus 
how much of it is 78's as opposed to the LP's they may have. If they 
ever start dumping that collection I'd like to haul off all I can 
carry back to Houston in a big U-haul truck!!!!


> > [Original Message]
> > From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net>
> > To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Date: 7/6/2009 6:43:57 PM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Large University Throwing away records?
> >
> > 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?