Libraries on lebrecht.live

Yesterday evening's lebrecht.live on Radio 3 was on the theme why is elitism a sin?
This is a slightly provisional account, as I was roasting a leg of pork while listening. I'm going to listen again, and post something more considered.
Libraries came up from time to time, with Tower Hamlets attracting some criticism for renaming their libraries Ideas Stores and closing the Whitechapel library (partly from Michael Bogdanov whose father had been librarian there).
But the case for the modern library, giving its readers the best of print and new media resources, was eloquently made by Deborah L Jacobs, City Librarian at Seattle Public Library. She was excellent (though could they not have found a British librarian; sad if the programme makers thought they couldn't, sadder still if they looked and couldn't find one). John Eatwell, Chair of the British Library Board. also spoke, though, as Frank Furedi pointed out, the British Library is atypical. Frank Furedi cited the difficulty of borrowing sheet music, a fair point. When I started in public libraries, the branch where I worked held the borough's vocal score sets, and I would be sent into back rooms in search of Stainer's Crucifixion or Elgar's Dream of Gerontius: how many libraries still have such a collection?