Record sale at NY Public Library

[mjzee]

The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded sound has 22,000 LPs with your name on them. The records represent decades of unsolicited donations, for which we already have at least one copy in great condition. Now we need the space to bring in more unique materials for you to enjoy and study. Whether you are a hardcore collector of foreign classical releases, lover of 70s country music, Funk aficionado, or devotee of Ronald Reagan's spoken work, stop in anytime between August 8th and August 10th to get your paws on your sonic favorites known and yet to be discovered. All genres and styles represented.

We've priced the records to sell with all proceeds going to support the ongoing expansion of our collections.

Details here:

NYPL

[Bill Nelson]

I suppose Rick and Oscar simply ran out of time to listen to them all. I'm starting to get that feeling myself.

[Teasing the Korean]

I always find John Cage, Harry Partch and/or 20th Century electronic albums at library sales.

[Stefan Wood]

Could be the ugliest gathering of crate diggers in one spot, ever.

[Head Man]

Better get those elbows sharpened.........

[sgcim]

I went to this "sale" today. I was amazed to find only about 200 LPs (22,000? yeah, right...) there, and they were all old classical LPs that were pretty commonplace albums. I asked some stupid chick, "is this all there is?", and she bubbled over that they were going to add at least fifteen more boxes of LPs by noon tomorrow.

Considering that they only had about 10-20 LPs in a box, I just shrugged my shoulders...

Just more Manhattan bullshit hype. I should know by now...

[7/4]

I went to this "sale" today. I was amazed to find only about 200 LPs (22,000? yeah, right...) there, and they were all old classical LPs that were pretty commonplace albums. I asked some stupid chick, "is this all there is?", and she bubbled over that they were going to add at least fifteen more boxes of LPs by noon tomorrow.

Considering that they only had about 10-20 LPs in a box, I just shrugged my shoulders...

Just more Manhattan bullshit hype. I should know by now...

Sounds like the sale was huge success.

[ejp626]

I can't remember all the details, but I recall there was a pretty amazing LP sale at the Chicago library many years back (when they really started purging LPs). It was a huge room just filled with crates (probably at least 5000 and maybe twice that). I didn't have the patience to actually look for something to take home, but it was fun watching for a while...

[Stefan Wood]

In DC, the Martin Luther King Library (main branch) has an enormous vinyl collection, which was recently moved to a dark corner of the building amidst a renovation and replanning of spaces. Unbeknownst to many, it holds a huge jazz lp collection donated by the once well known dj Felix Grant. It was intended to be put on the shelves for public lending, but it never was. Supposedly they are just sitting in boxes, and because of the stipulations of the donation they can not sell them. Who knows if that has changed.