Indeed.I am eternally grateful to our friend here from the Finnish national library,who sent out the sale list of excess records to ARSClist a few years back.I got a very nice little stack of British pressed late acoustic and early electric classical 78s,including the first records by George Szell.(80 RPM Parlophones.)It would be nice if more archives or libraries all over the world did this. Roger> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>wrote:> > > Two thoughts.> >> > 1. I'd take a Lebrecht pronouncement with a grain of salt. "Throwing out> > unique treasures" is different from getting out of run of the mill LPs to> > free up space for non-niche/non-dead media.> >> > 2. Any common-sense approach to moving away from an antiquated media> > involves selling the artifacts to the general public. So, if there are any> > rare or unique records that are indeed being discarded, they will end up in> > the hands of collectors, unless common sense doesn't prevail. Given this is> > a public institution in a European country, it is possible that common> > sense will not prevail. I maintain optimism, given the Dutch reputation for> > practicality.> >> > -- Tom Fine> >> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Roth" <[log in to unmask]>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>> > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 3:46 PM> >> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Europe's largest record library is shutting down> >> >> > Oh! This is very stressful!!!> >> OUCH!> >>> >> Ben> >>> >> -----Original Message-----> >> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:> >> [log in to unmask]**GOV <[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of> >> John Haley> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 3:14 PM> >> To: [log in to unmask]> >> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Europe's largest record library is shutting down> >>> >> Wow, is that sad. I wondering where it is all going?> >>> >> Best,> >> John Haley> >>> >> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:14 PM, [log in to unmask] <> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:> >>> >> Mr. Lebrecht reports here -> >>>> >>> http://www.artsjournal.com/****slippeddisc/2013/07/europes-**<http://www.artsjournal.com/**slippeddisc/2013/07/europes-**>> >>> largest-record-library-is-****shutting-down.html<http://www.**> >>> artsjournal <http://www.artsjournal>.> >>> com/slippeddisc/2013/07/**europes-largest-record-**> >>> library-is-shutting-dow> >>> n.html>> >>>> >>> Joe Salerno> >>>> >>>> >>> >>