[78-L] Music Sale

[David Lennick]

Lots of libraries dump. The University of Toronto Faculty of Music hasn't had a 
full-time slave in the dungeon for a couple of years but still accepts 
donations (limited) and culls the dupes and has a sale every year. 
Hobart-William Smith College in Geneva NY needed a storage room, so everything 
in it (THOUSANDS of fabulous 78s including most of a Carnegie Collection) was 
offered to collectors at pennies per disc.

dl

On 4/3/2013 9:32 AM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
> My town library dumped, without microfilming first, all their copies of"
> Hobbies".   Had I only known.
>
>
> Ronald L'Herault
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Michael Biel
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 1:09 AM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Music Sale
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> From: Mike Harkin<xxm.harkin at yahoo.com>
>> How can a library provide service and be a resource if
>> they're selling everything off?   Mike in Plovdiv
>
> I agree 100%, but many librarians will tell you that libraries are not
> archives.  A RESEARCH library has more reason for retaining everything, but
> most libraries do not serve researchers, just readers, and they need to keep
> currently wanted materials.  Things that are not used are not retained.
> I've tried to explain to some that researchers want to be the first to use
> materials, but once again, that is not of concern to many librarians who
> only know how to catalog stuff and have never done research or USED their
> library.
> As a matter of fact, I started collecting books because I discovered in grad
> school that I couldn't trust that a book I had used in a library would still
> be in their catalog next time I needed it.
>
> For media, our university library only wanted the LATEST format, so out went
> the films, filmstrips, and LPs.  I did get a lot of them.  They also dumped
> their phonographs and projectors and I got more than a dozen of each. When
> the Soviet Union broke up, about a year or two later I got about 100 books
> about the USSR from their disposal sales.  Obsolete.
>
> Once a student of mine misplaced a book and he asked me to help keep them
> from charging him more than twice what the book was worth -- it might have
> been $75.  Today I'd just check on Amazon or ebay and get a cheap copy, but
> luckily the kid FOUND the book in time.  About 8 months later THAT DAMN BOOK
> WAS IN THEIR DISPOSAL SALE FOR A QUARTER.  I grabbed it and stormed into the
> librarian's office.  I ripped him a new one, and for the next 20 years I
> didn't let him forget it.  No kid who ever came to me had to pay a fine for
> a lost book.
>
> Right now, most libraries are relying on the internet, and the shelves could
> be empty and nobody would notice.  You need a book, check in inter-library
> loan.  Or buy it on line.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com