Date:         Fri, 5 Jan 2007 18:19:15 -0500
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Subject:      Re: Libraries disposing of records
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D. Blake Werts wrote:
> <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

Actually, all it takes is making your interests known to enough connected 
dealers and collectors. Sometimes I receive a direct notice about a soon to be 
discarded collection, but more often it's through a second or third party. The 
owner of a second-hand record store in Rochester has alerted me to 3 major 
hauls (plus one or two more I didn't follow up on), especially when it was 
material he couldn't use or he'd gone through it first.

dl
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 4:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Libraries disposing of records
> 
> 
>> D. Blake Werts wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Steve Ramm" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> 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
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