Saturday, October 01, 2005

University Music Collections

Here is an annotated sampling of music that awaits you when you walk through the doors of my University library.  Charles Smith’s work is obviously a labor of love.  I have always felt so rich whenever I walk out of a library with books, tapes, cd’s , and such.  Libraries are proof positive that we are all in it together.  In our Kentucky communities, libraries are created through local taxing districts and supported by state library services.  It is remarkable what this simple system has produced:  a library in every county, Internet access in every one of those libraries, and information access on a global and local scale that must rival what those in the Great Library of Alexandria must have felt.