"I do not think that the library should make a charge to anyone. Every other library I have used is free"

Free beer would be nice, too. Just try getting access to, say, Manchester University Library, if you think all other libraries are free.

Last week I emailed the Vaughan Williams Library about a paper published in the Folk Music Journal some time ago. A PDF copy arrived at my terminal within the hour. Earlier in the year I asked them for a song in Cecil Sharp's manuscript. A scan arrived the same day.

Sabine Baring-Gould's collection will shortly be available online, thanks to a collaboration between Wren Music (whose members have worked enormously hard on it) and EFDSS. Take 6, of course, is a priceless resource, and one day I'm sure Sharp's material will be added. But these things aren't achieved in an afternoon's work - they cost time and money. I find it staggering that, the year after the launch of a superb resource like Take 6 (available to everyone, not just members), and with more in the pipeline, we are hearing lofty demands from non-members that "the online library needs to be improved".

The lack of music at the Sheffield AGM seems to have been a spectacular own-goal and I have questions about other aspects of strategy as well, nonetheless I intend to remain one of the 4000.

Incidentally, I performed a couple of songs at the AGM in the 1980s and found myself on 'The World This Weekend' - EFDSS was big news in those days!