Re: slurred staccatos


"Peter T. Daniels" (grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
> Nightingale wrote:
>>
>> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>
>> >>>
>> >>>Or do what librarians refer to as "weeding": discard books you no longer
>> >>>need.
>> >>A disgusting habit. Our library weeded the last two biographies of Sir
>> >>Thomas Beecham in the library system a few years ago. Anybody who wants
>> >>to know about him now has to read whatever edition of Groves their library
>> >>has.
>> > Consider the alternative. Is your community prepared to devote an
>> > indefinitely large amount of money to building bigger and bigger library
>> > facilities?
>>
>> I have acquired a few useful books when libraries did their weeding.
>> Last year I was too busy at work to make the U of T sale, and was sorry
>> to miss it, because they always have interesting books.
>
> Likewise the Newberry Library, in Chicago. The Brandeis University
> women's alumnae association (I don't remember its exact name) runs an
> immense usedbook sale every year in Chicago, at which many treasures can
> be found. One of the first things I did when I got back to New York in
> May 1997 was to call the equivalent group in NYC, and they had never
> heard of such a thing.
>
> The NYPL has usedbook sales at several branches on a regular basis, but
> they rely much more on donated usedbooks than on library discards and
> they're more a fundraising than a weeding operation. (Just about
> everything is uniformly priced at $2.)
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx


In Detroit the Brandeis womens association discontinued the sale and then
brought it back with a name something like BookStock. It's held rather
far from me now so I didn't go this year.

Brendan
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