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Bob Draper wrote:
>The reply was unequivocal "no way you hire cds not booklets". I told
>them that the CDs were useless without a synopsis and libretto. To which,
>the librarian said "My friends listen without a libretto you don't need it
>- no refund" "There was no libretto in it when we got it" Ha Ha, a full
>price L'ouseau lyre cd with no booklet.
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>Who's crazy me or them? Any views?
Nobody's crazy. Somebody (L'oiseau lyre by substituting a catalog for a
libretto, or a private donor who may have wanted to keep the libretto, or
a larcenous prior borrower) may be unscrupulously venal. If your local
library didn't have a libretto, I don't see how they can furnish one.
I'm surprised that your local library has a "borrowing charge" for CDs
Everything circulates gratis in ours. On the other hand, there's no way
that our library would have a CD of Handel's *Esther* at any price!
Walter Meyer
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