Some libraries are forbidden to sell retired books
This is a common problem for many libraries. Even if they're not forbidden, there's a great stigma for it. Libraries wind up with outdated collections because patrons (or more likely, parents of school students) can't stand the idea of getting rid of books. I've heard stories of librarians who have a stack of books in the back, and each day each staff member takes home a book to be thrown away at the librarian's home, so that patrons don't see the books being removed.
Here's a "beaut" I unearthed from the shelves at one of the high schools in my county: "An American Dilemma; the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy" by Gunnar Myrdal. 1944.
I was weeding the vertical file several years ago and found a recipe for cheap and easy-to-make "play dough" - using asbestos!
While weeding a collection for the first time a few weeks ago, I came across a fiction book titled First on the Moon. The subject heading in the tracings at the bottom of the shelf-list card was Science Fiction.
When I first began as a Media Specialist about six years ago I found lots of interesting books! One of my favorites was: Junior: A Colored Boy Of Charleston. By Eleanor Frances Lattimore, Copyright 1938. Junior lives in Charleston and would like to be a shoeshine boy when he
grows up!!
Of course, some of those may be the ones that bring the big bucks on eBay.
Cataloging? Onerous? For a library? Have you been in a libray? Cataloging and tracking the books is done.
Yeah, but the automation systems don't have some "Export selected titles to an XML file to send to Amazon over SOAP" button you can click. As well-defined as library data is, there aren't that many tools for handling it outside of the automation system.
RT is a tremendous package. Version 3 is out, but you can see version 2 in action at
rt.cpan.org. All Perl bug tracking, both in modules and the core, goes in here. In fact, submissions for various O'Reilly conferences are in RT, as well. It's very flexible.
... the 24 January 1974 announcement by the FCC that subliminal techniques, "whether effective or not," were "contrary to the public interest," and that any station employing them risked losing its broadcast license.
The FCC doesn't create laws. Further, the regulations that the FCC makes do not cover motion pictures. Futher still, the FCC didn't make any new regulations.
This must have been added to *end* the ceaseless wars over whether using "map" in a void context is lame, or not.
It doesn't change the idea of whether map in a void context is lame, only about its cost. The great thing is now the arguments can't point back to the cost issue, and only deal with the pure idealism of whether map is a good substitute for foreach.
So, in summary... if SAMS published it... it probrably sucks ass.
Then take a look again. Their mod_perl Developer's Cookbook is great (on my list of Ten Great Non-O'Reilly Books), and I really enjoyed The Ruby Way.
(Full disclosure: I've done tech editing work for SAMS.)
No publisher is consistently brilliant, nor consistently awful. It may be an indicator, but ignoring a publisher because of a product line you don't like is self-defeating.
I don't get this "you get one good song" thing. Are you only looking at the stuff that's hot on MTV? Here are some CDs off the top of my head that are solid goodness, and not one is a hits package:
Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street
Prince, Purple Rain and Sign O' The Times
Silkworm, Firewater
Shellac, At Action Park
NoFX, Punk In Drublic
Everything in the Beatles catalog
Dave Brubeck Quartet, Take Five
Norah Jones, Come Away With Me
Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison or At San Quentin
Willie Nelson, Red-Headed Stranger
The Cars, first album and Candy-O
Neko Case, Furnace Room Lullaby
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
Merle Haggard, Big City
George Jones, I Am What I Am
AC/DC, Back In Black
Iron Maiden, The Number Of The Beast
Joe Jackson, Look Sharp! or Night And Day
There, 25+ albums you can go buy and enjoy.
There's plenty of good music out there, well worth paying for.
Safari (which allows you ten books, changeable when you want)
Safari's books aren't changeable "when you want." Each title must sit on your bookshelf for 30 days. Otherwise, you could have a single book slot and swap in and out all you wanted.
The 10-book limit had me concerned at first, but it hasn't turned out to be a problem in reality.
Another story about ebooks, another chance for a long protracted argument about the pros and cons of ebooks.
"Lower costs!"
"But I can't read them on the toilet!"
We learn from failure and ignore it at our peril. Read some books like "To Engineer is Human" and "Why Buildings Fall Down" to see how much more we learn from failure than from just keeping on doing things the old way.
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This is a common problem for many libraries. Even if they're not forbidden, there's a great stigma for it. Libraries wind up with outdated collections because patrons (or more likely, parents of school students) can't stand the idea of getting rid of books. I've heard stories of librarians who have a stack of books in the back, and each day each staff member takes home a book to be thrown away at the librarian's home, so that patrons don't see the books being removed.
Here are some links about collection weeding. The SUNLINK Weed Of The Month is an especially interesting resource. The best part of the site is the Some Things We've Dug Up While Weeding page, with gems like:
Of course, some of those may be the ones that bring the big bucks on eBay.Yeah, but the automation systems don't have some "Export selected titles to an XML file to send to Amazon over SOAP" button you can click. As well-defined as library data is, there aren't that many tools for handling it outside of the automation system.
That would be the Perl Power Tools project.
You can link tickets to each other, either peer-to-peer or parent-child.
RT is a tremendous package. Version 3 is out, but you can see version 2 in action at rt.cpan.org. All Perl bug tracking, both in modules and the core, goes in here. In fact, submissions for various O'Reilly conferences are in RT, as well. It's very flexible.
So I reiterate: No such law exists.
See http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/popcorn.asp for more.
It doesn't change the idea of whether map in a void context is lame, only about its cost. The great thing is now the arguments can't point back to the cost issue, and only deal with the pure idealism of whether map is a good substitute for foreach.
Does this mean it's not yet bright enough to point at my Keynote slides?
Then take a look again. Their mod_perl Developer's Cookbook is great (on my list of Ten Great Non-O'Reilly Books), and I really enjoyed The Ruby Way. (Full disclosure: I've done tech editing work for SAMS.)
No publisher is consistently brilliant, nor consistently awful. It may be an indicator, but ignoring a publisher because of a product line you don't like is self-defeating.
Do people not know that DVD includes "video"?
The #2 rule
"Hello? Is this the stiff you're looking for?"
Maybe he meant "kibotherapy".
Geek orgasm!
"... but a talking frog is COOL!"
- Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street
- Prince, Purple Rain and Sign O' The Times
- Silkworm, Firewater
- Shellac, At Action Park
- NoFX, Punk In Drublic
- Everything in the Beatles catalog
- Dave Brubeck Quartet, Take Five
- Norah Jones, Come Away With Me
- Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison or At San Quentin
- Willie Nelson, Red-Headed Stranger
- The Cars, first album and Candy-O
- Neko Case, Furnace Room Lullaby
- Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
- Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
- Merle Haggard, Big City
- George Jones, I Am What I Am
- AC/DC, Back In Black
- Iron Maiden, The Number Of The Beast
- Joe Jackson, Look Sharp! or Night And Day
There, 25+ albums you can go buy and enjoy.There's plenty of good music out there, well worth paying for.
They're not charging anything. It's an auction. The price is what the market will bear.
What? Giger designed something that looks like human genitals? Who'da thunk?
Safari's books aren't changeable "when you want." Each title must sit on your bookshelf for 30 days. Otherwise, you could have a single book slot and swap in and out all you wanted.
The 10-book limit had me concerned at first, but it hasn't turned out to be a problem in reality.
Buy a copy of "Code Complete". Scrawl "coding standards" on the front in big black marker. Live & breathe it.
Another story about ebooks, another chance for a long protracted argument about the pros and cons of ebooks. "Lower costs!"
"But I can't read them on the toilet!"
"Every building code is written in blood."
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Why do geeks want to turn everything into Planet Purple?
See the site that the link is from. He's a recording engineer in Chicago who also has been in some incredibly influential bands.