Date: |
Tue, 23 May 2000 16:56:11 -0400 |
Subject: |
|
From: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
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 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. Maybe they
don't like the idea of putting something "used" on the shelf--as if, like
a new car, a CD isn't used the minute it first leaves the building. I'm
not averse to donations. We don't seek them or get many donated CDs, but
I don't think we turn them down, either. But many libraries would. Then
again, one other library around here, one with a great CD collection, does,
and a lot of their really interesting stuff is comprised of donations. I
come here not to explain Caesar, only to affirm that this weird attitude
toward donations does exist.
Roger Hecht
|
|
|