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.
>
>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