[78-L] Lost Chords, lost and found

[Don Chichester]

Were those the Blue Books published by Century House, Watkins Glen, NY?
 
Don
 
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:45:34 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Lost Chords, lost and found
> 
> 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 and it was withdrawn from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 .
> >>>
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