"online including the Carpenter stuff"
The Carpenter stuff - I'll grant you, but how long has that taken ?
I found out about the collection in 1960 from Bob Thomson, I persuaded the librarian to buy it
They had reel-to-reel recordings and poor microfiche texts that were virtually unreadable for about twenty odd years before the moved to make it generally available.
That is no way to serve our folk traditions

Beyond that, what is there?
I assume ther is still no shop and the moving the Library upstairs was a no-no because the floor wasn't safe
Moving it into the basement was out of the question as that would lose them precious dancing space
The building is not a suitable place to research yet was hung onto in memory of 'Dear Cecil' - that was the argument put forwards at the time
THe hall is too big for dancing and the small downstairs hall is too small to be taken seriously
Renting ouside venues would have solved many of the problemas and it would have inroduced the EFDSS to the outside world (though I think some of them would have crumbled to dust in the sunlight
If the building is treated as C# House was it becomes a shrine

Jim