[78-L] Large University Throwing away records?

Malcolm Rockwell malcolm at 78data.com
Tue Jul 7 10:40:18 PDT 2009


Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
>>>       
>
> Yes I do know this because I have been there, but if it happened once at
> UCLA, how do we know that in 20 or so years from now it won't happen
> again to this new collection. 
>
>   
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Is that what happened to the huge Gennett collection they had, catalog 
of which can still be found on the internet?
Malcolm




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