Re: [ARSCLIST] Libraries disposing of records

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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" <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
>