Roger Hecht wrote:

>Karl Miller wrote:
>
>>Sigh.  This is precisely what I have wanted to do.  I donate a substantial
>>number of CDs (basically all that I receive).  However, the local public
>>library turns up their nose at me; they will agree only to receive the
>>discs so that they can sell them for cash.  ...

I didn't write that...and I am a librarian and I never turn up my nose to
any donation...something which often puts me at odds with the powers that
be.  [Todd McComb wrote the above quoted paragraph - let's be more careful
with our attributions please.  -Dave]

>I am a public librarian and am responsible for ordering classical CDs.  It
>is a weird thing, this business of donations.  I've never figured it out.
>Libraries seem to like new things.  It's just easier, I guess. ...

Donations have brought us things that were subsequently released on Pearl
(tapes of Moiseiwitsch) and Arbiter (Horszowski). Another fairly recent
donation included a pile of acetates of New York Philharmonic broadcasts
from the 1950s (in pristine condition). Some libraries won't take LPs. A
few weeks ago we received a copy of that rare RCA disc of early electronic
music.

Karl