[78-L] Lost Chords, lost and found

[Kristjan Saag]

My local library (and now we're in Gothenburg, Sweden) dumped Carol 
Easton's Kenton biography a few years ago. I badly wanted it at the 
time, but didn't want to buy it for 10 kronor (2 dollars), emptying the 
city library of the biography for all times.
I managed to convince them to keep it and later found an ordinary second 
hand copy in a music store. The library still has the book.
Thousands of other important books never get a second chance.
Kristjan

Taylor Bowie wrote 2011-03-15 22:50:
> Sad but true,  Dan.   Many public (and even some university) libraries no
> longer consider themselves repositories of history but more like the old
> lending libraries in department stores...where they would have 20 copies of
> each of the latest pop novel and little else.
>
> I know you'll enjoy owning your own copy of Lost Chords,  even if it means a
> net loss for the people of Evansville!
>
> Taylor
>
>
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>>   As the 2 copies at my local library have been perpetually 'out' every
>> time I look, I bought a copy of LOST CHORDS online.
>> $11.98 with shipping, like-new condition .... and it was withdrawn from
>> the Evansville IN lyeberry.  No more White Jazz for
>> those Evansvillians - I checked the website.
>>
>> Evansville is probably doing the same as in Buffalo: dumbing-down the
>> collection, pulling books which aren't borrowed very
>> often&  therefore "not popular".  Easy, popular crud I can get from a
>> magazine rack ; to me, a public library's purpose is
>> to disseminate the more difficult, in-depth, and even arcane information
>> and history.    Instead, my library systems cater
>> more and more to Mencken's "Boobousie", who avoid education at all costs .
>>
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