[78-L] Large University Throwing away records?

[David Lennick]

And Bowling Green State University's collection is alive and well.

dl

kunst at email.unc.edu wrote:
> Just a quick note to point out that the John Edwards Memorial 
> Collection actually was transferred to a the Southern Folklife 
> Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, where it is very much intact and is used 
> quite heavily by researchers. I know there is no shortage of horror 
> stories, but this is not one of them.
> Franz
> 
>> At ARSC we were given a very impressive presentation of the donation and
>> digitization of a major West Coast American Folk Music collection at
>> UCLA.  During the Q&A I reminded them (and informed the generally
>> younger audience who had never known) that they were the institution
>> that closed down and sold off the even more impressive Jonathan Edwards
>> Memorial Foundation country archive.
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