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From: "Steve Ramm" <Stevramm@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:25 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Libraries disposing of records
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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.
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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