[78-L] Lost Chords, lost and found

[David Lennick]

I once found a signed copy of Halina Rodzinski's "Our Two Lives" in the fifty 
cent bin at my local library. (I already had a copy..picked this one up anyway.)

When the Oshawa library was getting rid of some important reference material 
like Nat Shapiro's "Popular Music" and a couple of "Blue Books", the librarian 
made sure they went to people who could use them (i.e. me).

dl

On 3/15/2011 6:12 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "DanKj"<MLK402 at verizon.net>
>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:44 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] Lost Chords, lost and found
>>
>>
>>>    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 and it was withdrawn from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 .
>>>