RAGE
I feel pretty good about today's Latin quiz, mainly as a result of walking back across campus with three of my classmates and discussing our answers. Since all of us had nearly identical answers on the main part of the quiz, I'm fairly confident that I got a high-C/low-B. This is good.
What pisses me off, however, is the announcement Stephen made at the start of class prior to the quiz. I'm actually still cold with anger over it, totally numb.
Apparently, due to the fact that so many journals that the library houses are available in online collections, the university library has pulped (read: shredded) literally hundreds of hard-copy journals. The list he showed us was massive, marked as those journals not-highlighted as in the holding stage for destruction and those highlighted as journals already destroyed. Nearly all the highlighted journals were historical journals.
No, wait - most of those already destroyed were journals of classical history. As in journals relevant to my major. As in, should these journals decide to discontinue their on-line catalogs, literally a hundred years' worth of historical documentation will be lost forever to this university.
And the thing is, with classical history and archaeological journals, the glossy plates usually found inside them don't translate well into pixel-based images to view online.
Ugh. I know there's nothing I can do about the ones already gone, but the good news is that - for the time being at least - the process has stopped. Unfortunately there's still the fact that literally hundreds of journals - hundreds of books - have been destroyed when instead they could have been sold or donated to the various schools of learning located within FSU or even donated to other university libraries in the state that can't get those journals for some reason.
Sorry for the rant, guys, but folks destroying books is my hot button.
What pisses me off, however, is the announcement Stephen made at the start of class prior to the quiz. I'm actually still cold with anger over it, totally numb.
Apparently, due to the fact that so many journals that the library houses are available in online collections, the university library has pulped (read: shredded) literally hundreds of hard-copy journals. The list he showed us was massive, marked as those journals not-highlighted as in the holding stage for destruction and those highlighted as journals already destroyed. Nearly all the highlighted journals were historical journals.
No, wait - most of those already destroyed were journals of classical history. As in journals relevant to my major. As in, should these journals decide to discontinue their on-line catalogs, literally a hundred years' worth of historical documentation will be lost forever to this university.
And the thing is, with classical history and archaeological journals, the glossy plates usually found inside them don't translate well into pixel-based images to view online.
Ugh. I know there's nothing I can do about the ones already gone, but the good news is that - for the time being at least - the process has stopped. Unfortunately there's still the fact that literally hundreds of journals - hundreds of books - have been destroyed when instead they could have been sold or donated to the various schools of learning located within FSU or even donated to other university libraries in the state that can't get those journals for some reason.
Sorry for the rant, guys, but folks destroying books is my hot button.