[78-L] Large University Throwing away records?

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> In the thread "Label Info. Query Answered" we were led to an article
> about discographic author Geoff Wheeler 
> http://www.clnonline.com/katescollage.html  Considering what we have
> been talking about in this thread, you should read what Geoff has to
> say:
> 
>> I generally contact another collector.
>> Collectors have the recordings and the documents.

> But what happens when the collectors Geoff has contact with die?  

I've faced the same situation many times..in the early 90s I borrowed from a 
number of collectors who were glad to share the music. Would that I'd had the 
time (and the sense) to make flat transfers of everything available to me at 
that time, since many of those collectors died and their collections went to 
the four winds.

I've also lost access to a couple of institutional collections over the years, 
although that has been an issue of staffing and gaining access. The University 
of Toronto still has a ton of 78s in the basement of the Robarts Library but 
there hasn't been a full-time person in that library for several years. Similar 
situations with a couple of other collections where theoretically I have access 
but have to go through flaming hoops to get anything.

dl