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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, George Brock-Nannestad wrote: > ----- nobody in power has really been happy with the masses' access to > knowledge, and the moment money talks (i.e. the libraries need a lot of money > for expensive inner-city premises, staff, and repairs of the materials), > cheap fixes will be sought - and found. One fix is "oh, has nobody requested > this for 25 years; well, then obviously nobody needs it". Oh, how true this is. I look at the treasures I have seen deleted from our public library and placed in the book sales for next to nothing. Sometimes I have "rescued" items in the hope of find a good home for them. I am reminded of a full set of Source Magazine I found at our Public Library sale. When I gave it to a friend (I had paid $10 for the full set) he was thrilled. Come to think of it, with single volumes selling for about $200 these days, I wonder if he might have sold them... > ----- nevertheless, there is so much stuff that you can only obtain by inter- > library loans, stuff that used to be quite widespread. I know, because I have > given up and I buy the originals from the web, which is teeming with de- > accessioned materials, materials that were once available to the general > public and which is now only available to me (and those who read what I > write, based on this material). > > I think the situation is desperate. I am still burning from being forced into selling about 3,000 78s for $10 at surplus (not $10 per disc but $10 for all of them)...and there were a few very good discs there. Karl