June 21, 2004
Des Moines isn't *that* patriotic
Librarians across the country are less-than-excited about the free CD windfall that's come from the record industry settling its price-inflation lawsuit. Part of the music industry's compensation involves giving music to libraries.
Eva Silverstone, communications director for the Spokane Public Library, said the library in eastern Washington received many copies of “Three Mo’ Tenors” among its 1,325 CDs, along with “tons of copies of Christina Aguilera’s Christmas album.” All told, she said, 15 titles represented 36 percent of the shipment.
“We’ll be able to add approximately 283 titles to our collection,” she said. “We’re obligated to either trade the others with other libraries or give them to our friends of the library group for sale, with any proceeds going to support the music program,” she said. “It’s a positive thing, but it’s also a little bit disappointing.”
The public library in Worcester, Mass., with a main library and two branches, received 150 copies of “Nastradamus,” a 1999 album by the rapper Nas, and 148 copies of “Entertainment Weekly’s Greatest Hits of 1971.”
“It’s an OK album with some decent songs on it, it’s just that we don’t need 148 of them,” Penny Johnson, head librarian of the Worcester library, said of the latter. She said that other libraries in Massachusetts that received more individual titles than they can use are arranging to exchange their excess copies and will then try to sell the rest.
The Des Moines (Iowa) Public Library was on track to take the lead in redundancies, though the identification of the programming bug may come in time to avert what might have been a record overkill. Its crate of 2,647 CDs, due to arrive in the next couple weeks, was listed as containing 430 single-song discs — 16 percent of the total -- of Whitney Houston singing “The Star Spangled Banner” at the 1991 Super Bowl, according to Steve Cox, of the Iowa State Library.
Posted by harry at June 21, 2004 2:40 PM
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IIRC, the record industry has claimed this strange delivery system was caused by a "glitch" in their computers. However, I doubt the judges had this kind of settling in mind...loading of the unsellable shit is certainly not much of a punishment...
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