[78-L] Lost Chords, lost and found

[David Lennick]

Correct!

dl

On 3/16/2011 3:52 PM, Don Chichester wrote:
>
> 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 and it was withdrawn from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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