So today we went to the museum, they had an exhibit on DaVinci

[nadinbrzezinski]

and on the walk over a group was selling used books

IT was nice for me to find the bio of FDR by Weingast, if any of you are history buffs you will know it is one of the early classics

Ok, a buck fer the book, nice

But here is where I was saddened... this book was discarded from HS library...

I could not help but think... libraries are in trouble... and they are getting rid of books...

[geckosfeet]

1. Hopefully it was a duplicate and they have a new copy - or the book found it's

way to the sellers inventory through less than legitimate means.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. No, this is the real deal

Discarded by the San Diego Unified School District, first edition 1952

[geckosfeet]

9. Yeah. Someone could have 'borrowed' it from the library. But you are right.

That one should probably have been in a protected room in the library.

[csziggy]

2. Often libraries get books donated and sell them to make money

Or if the book was a duplicate, they may have kept one in better shape. And there is the sad truth that they often have to discard older books, no matter how great, to make room for newer ones. Libraries have policies about how they chose which books to remove - quality of that particular copy, condition of the binding, how long since it was last checked out are only a few of the criteria.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I understand that, but it still saddens me to a point

realize the San Diego School District is not known for things like caring for their libraries

Oh and binding and all that I'd said good shape

I got a good copy

:-)

I guess will read it over the next few days

It is a classic

[csziggy]

8. Then it probably came down to lack of space - out with the old and in with the new

If that book had not been checked out in years and they needed the shelf space for new books, out it went! That ignores the fact that in many school libraries, the stacks as well as the reference section may be used for reference and that book may have been used as a source of information without leaving the building. But the librarians have no way of knowing that.

This would be an excellent use for RFID chips and in house scanners that could keep track of the movements of the books in house as well as keeping them from leaving the building without being checked out!

[virgogal]

4. A Sunday going to a museum and browsing through used

books sounds like pure heaven to me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. IT was, then we went to Fridays for early dinner

I just wish the museography was better

But the mechanical advantage demo for the DaVinci exhibit was great

[virgogal]

5. Dup----sorry!

[csziggy]

10. Oddly enough I caught a new (?) series on Discovery Channel today

Called 'Doing DaVinci' http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/doing-davinci/doing-davinci.html - they build some of DaVinci's inventions that had never been constructed, just known from his drawings. The episode I watched today was building his siege ladder - an amazing design that worked very well, though I spotted a weakness that the defenders of their "castle" did not attempt to take advantage of This was only the second episode - it seems to run at 10 PM ET on Mondays and rerun on Sundays at 1 PM ET.

A review: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1678287/doing_davinci_episode_2_leonardos_siege.html?cat=39

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. That's a great series