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Libraries will sell off scientific books on ants if they are from the 70s or 80s because they are "dated" however these same books are citied all the time in recent papers (Which is how I ended up looking for them.)
This book on leafcutters has a section on the local common names for these ants and I really wish more ant papers had this kind of information!
And it's full of photos and careful drawings of the ants that are timeless!
I kinda think the library made a mistake on this one. This book costs like $400 but I am not complaining.
Well first, congratulations on getting a cool book. I love getting decommissioned library books.
But also, the whole thing makes me cranky because then they aren't accessible to everyone.
(Not cranky at you, just cranky because it seems... wasteful of the system. )
Libraries get no funding and have no space. Books must be purged. So they'll do things like "get rid of all science reference books without color photos that haven't been checked out in 15 years."
But... that's what the "reference" thing is all about...
anyway... at least I get to read it now.
@futurebird @melanie someone really should found a cold store for books. If we can fill caves with cheese, why not books?
@ekg @futurebird @melanie Wait, there're caves full of cheese? Where!
@ChristineMalec @ekg @futurebird @melanie the Moon. Wendsleydale crater.
@PalmAndNeedle @ekg @futurebird @melanie Oh yeah, how could I forget?
@ChristineMalec @ekg @futurebird @melanie happens to the best of us Grommet, eh?