Karl Miller wrote:

> Finding a library that is interested is difficult.  It really depends
> on the contents of the collection.  As we know, most standard repertoire
> is available on CD. If the collection contains items not available on
> CD, you "might" be able to interest some library, but I doubt it.  Library
> of Congress still collects, but since it has all of the copyright deposit
> materials, I would wager that they are only interested in non-us recordings.

I'm sure a lot has changed for the worse at universities in the last
ten years.  The operas and boxed sets I saw at UMKC a few years ago were
mostly pretty obscure things, to be sure...  A few years before that, a
venerable second-hand record dealer in Norwich in England gave up the
ghost...

Try www.vinyl-renaissance.com in Kansas City.  I sold about 250 LPs there
a year or so ago, and picked up a couple of things.  They're nice folks.
Then of course you've got shipping costs.  But my concern would be to
get the discs to a place where a fan or a collector might find something
he wants.  Better that than landfill.

DC

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