Just a thought while we sit around arguing the toss.
Whatever PKs strengths and weaknesses, in the not too distant future the fate of the collection will have to be decided.
When it was suggested some time ago that the VWML was sold there were at least two American academics bearing blank cheques waiting in the wings.
As far as I'm concerned one of the most important collection of field recordings ever to be made in the UK and Ireland should (does) belong to the nation.
I wonder who will end up owning it?
Jim Carroll