Re: arsclist record archive

["Steve Smolian" <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know, I know.  As a private collector, my illusions of any significantly
returnable investment in my own 10K+ LP collection are long shattered. But
the 78s have held value.

Perhaps I misread the original message.  It seemed to me there was an
implication that a list was wanted so the records could be offered for sale.
I see lists, painstakingly assembled, often handwritten, page after page, of
records the correspondant wants to dispose of, of what appears to be
garage-sale leftovers.

Speaking of which, during yard-sale season, I can count on at least two or
three phone calls every Monday AM from folks who "only sold a few records"
from their boxes over the weekend and can't believe I'm not interested in
the remainder. I try to be polite, but the explainations  usually take the
better part of an hour out of my businbess day every week.

Steve Smolian


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Ross" <johnross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: arsclist record archive


> At 05:47 PM 12/10/2002 -0500, Steve Smolian wrote:
> >And how much will this cost, and how many of the LPs will be completely
> >unsalable?
>
> Bruno's original question was about cataloging a private collection to aid
> in searching for items in that collection, not about creating sales
> catalog. And that is the context in which I suggested that OCLC might be a
> useful resource.
>
> As for the cost, it's variable, based amount of usage and several other
> considerations, with credits for information submitted to the union
> catalog, and charges for amount of access. But it's quite likely that the
> university with which Bruno is associated already has an OCLC account, and
> that a friendly librarian might be willing to offer some local advice
about
> using the service.
>
> This is a quite different requirement from that of a dealer, who, as you
> rightly observed, must be extremely selective about acquisitions. Many of
> those things that "simply do not sell" still have a place in collections,
> and need to be indexed along with the stuff that you, as a dealer,
consider
> desirable.
>
> John Ross
> Northwest Folklife
> Seattle
>
>
>
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