Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
Effective immediately, the Library will no longer accept most donations of record albums. Offers of albums will be screened prior to accepting a prospective donation.
In the past, gifts of record albums have made major contributions to the Library Media collection of recorded music and speech. However record albums, and therefore the equipment used to play them, have been replaced with newer technology, such as audiocassettes, CDs and MP3. While the library still has functioning equipment to play records at this time that won't always be the case and it will become harder to acquire replacement parts.
Guidelines to make determinations on record albums offered:
Reference: LEC minutes of meeting held 10/09/02
Finalized LEC email exchanges 10/02