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