A story that I've long cherished -- Janey was behind the book purchasing in the Buchan household, establishing links with specialist booksellers all over the UK who were on the lookout for their particular interests (Scottish collections of traditional song; traditional song from elsewhere; Thomas Muir material; pamphlets on the 1820 Weavers' uprising; political song; Labour history etc. etc.). And early on she made the decision that if material such as Motherwell's 'Minstrelsy' came on the market at a reasonable price, she would purchase it even if they already had a copy -- "because there would always be someone they knew who would want it".
I myself was on the receiving end of this foresight when, years after I'd left school, I accompanied Norman to Keith Folk Festival in Aberdeenshire to meet up with Arthur Argo (the great-grandson of Gavin Greig and, coincidentally, the brother of my best friend) to discuss their plans for a future tv programme that was eventually put out on BBC as "Buchan on Buchan" -- an exploration of the wealth of folksong that came from that area of the north-east of Scotland, including one third of Child's A texts and the immense range of material collected later by Greig and Duncan. We were talking over the whole extraordinary circumstance on the way back home in the car and Norman casually asked me if I had a copy of Keith's "Last Leaves and Airs of Traditional Ballads", which was all the Child ballad material collected by Greig, published posthumously in limited edition. (I had begun to buy available books, but not of the rare variety, and he knew I had the Dover edition of Child along with some other reprints.) When I said that I knew the book but couldn't ever imagine finding one, he took me to his house when we reached Glasgow and brought through a copy of said book for me! And this was only possible because of Janey's enlightened/mad? purchasing policy.
Much later Janey used to enjoy telling how she frequently misled Norman about the prices she paid for all these necessary books, and she was convinced that he never knew!