Re: [ARSCLIST] Libraries disposing of records

["D. Blake Werts" <bwerts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<sniff sniff>

I know that I an still quite naive, but where can I sign up for one of
each?!?

<"must preserve...">
D. Blake Werts


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Libraries disposing of records


> D. Blake Werts wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Ramm" <Stevramm@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:25 PM
> > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Libraries disposing of records
> >
> >
> > < snip >
> >> My only take on this is that when the Temple University library needed
to
> >> dispose of their 78 rpm records (to build a new Student Union) they
called
> > 5
> >> local knowledgeable person here (I was one but less knowledgeable than
the
> >> others). They said "take what you want". I know that when it got to me
> > (5th) I
> >> could only find about 75 records I wanted for FREE! The rest were
> > duplicate runs
> >>  of Carusos and other common Red Seals and lots of 10in and 12 in
> > classical
> >> 78  sets. The pop stuff was mostly pop vocals and bands on red label
> > Columbias.
> >> Many  of these were "donated" to the Temple library. They didn't even
have
> > a
> >> 78  player. My guess is about 10,000 remaining records were discarded.
> > < snip >
> >
> > What does it mean when my heart truly aches when I read something like
this?
> > How often is this type of thing happening?  (and am now wondering if
there
> > is any way possible to create an archive location that can take all of
this
> > material in!)
> >
> > (Oh the pain!)
> > D. Blake Werts
> >
> >
>
> The fact remains that there are millions of 78s out there which very few
people
> will ever want, no matter their artistic merit. I've been on the "come and
get
> it" end of a few discarded collections, and you see the same stuff every
time.
> I don't even bother looking at single sided Red Seals. To me they're as
common
> as Al Jolson Deccas.
>
> dl