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On 17 mar 2009, at 17.00, Thomas Stern wrote: > It is a very frequent and disheartening occurrence that the > booklets which > accompanied 78rpm albums > (sometimes LPs) are missing from copies available from dealers and > online > sources. These booklets are frequently very rich sources of > information, > and have their intrinsic interest. I have many bankers' boxes of what appears to be this type of information which originally came, so I am told (well the originals, these are copies) from the BBC Grams Library. So far they are sitting in storage with lots of catalogues and rather too many pallets of disks awaiting processing. Eventually elements will appear on musiclibrary.fi (site not operational yet) but dependent on the material it might be copyrighted and thus not "give out"able even if the information can be summarised IYSWIM. I've not got that far down that particular turnpike to check on the legals. I just remember seeing the boxes. And.. should anyone know how to break a 15 year old plus CD database copy protection (the original appl doesn't even work on my OS emulator) that could yield more information. But that I suspect might break rules on copy circumvention so best that I don't go down that path. DRM strikes again :( Darren > > Catalogs from specialized record companies are also of great interest > (Classical, Folk, Jazz, Documentary, Spoken word, etc.). > Is there any person or organizations with a website where these > could be > made available permanently? > Whenever possible, I have provided scans of this type of material. > I hope > others > in this community are willing to do the same. This could be a > resource of > immense importance to scholars and collectors. > Would be a great service if LoC, Smithsonian, or University would > commit > to this. > Comments / Suggestions ????? > Best wishes, Thomas. > > ¦ D P Ingram ¦ Ab Ingram Oy ¦ ¦ darren at ingram.fi ¦ www.ingram.fi ¦ ¦ ¦ +358 6 781 0275 (FIN) ¦ +46 8 5511 4995 (SWE) ¦ +44 203 014 3839 (UK) ¦ ¦ extn 8001 ¦