Re: [TAXACOM] Digest for taxacom@googlegroups.com - 5 updates in 3 topics

[John Epler]

Mike Ferro at Clemson University (South Carolina - USA) helped me out last year with some old literature that I no longer needed.  He wrote: 
Concerning literature, I’m currently collecting material people no longer want to keep (through Natural History Literature Rescue). I just got 12 feet of entomology reprints (mostly 1910s through 1940s) from the San Diego Natural History Museum. They boxed it up and shipped it to the address above. Last year I rented a U-Haul and rescued 18 file cabinets from Florida Collection or Arthropods. I don’t have a permanent place to store these yet, but the goal is to get enough money to store them in an accessible place people can visit.

 

Mike Ferro - <spongym...@gmail.com>

On 09/03/2026 9:20 PM EDT tax...@googlegroups.com wrote:

 

reprint collections

Frederick W. Schueler <bck...@istar.ca>: Sep 03 07:15AM -0400 Everyone,   We've been going through the huge amounts of documents & specimens we've accumulated over recent decades - https://www.facebook.com/aleta.karstad/posts/pfbid02wQFgsGPy8hj18NVkz89wPPncNL41C2bR2aFkwfXgdWQTUAYv4j6p632xpRDAygXGl - and wonder, before municipal paper recycling comes around, what others have done with reprint collections passed to them by retired or deceased colleagues?   The archives of the institution where one colleague worked don't want his collection, and without any institutional backing, all I can think of doing is to go through the piles and save the "Wow-I-had-no-idea" documents.   fred schueler Research Curator ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad ------------ Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/ 6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W ------------------------------------------------------------

Dilrukshan Wijesinghe <elaph...@gmail.com>: Sep 03 07:28AM -0400 Would the Internet Archive (archive.org) be a good destination? I know, you are thinking of the actual paper copies (presumably mostly traditional authors’ reprints). However, a lot of publications between the period from when things go into the public domain up to when digital copies become widely available (and/or when the authors are still living) is a “dead zone” and obtaining copies of such papers is very challenging. So digitization of old reprint collections will be useful, though this does not solve the issue of what happens to the paper copies.   Priyantha     On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 7:15 AM Frederick W. Schueler <bck...@istar.ca> wrote:

Richard Zander <finuk...@gmail.com>: Sep 03 01:48PM -0500 My recent research indicates that hominin genera are replaced about every 1.2 million years following the long-eccentricity cycle of the Earth's orbit. We are way past due for replacement. I suggest we take a long view and put our research on stone tablets. On the other hand, in the short term, if it is now behind a pay wall, we can't archive it for free use, and if it isn't why should we? I put everything into open access now, and so should you all.   On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 6:28 AM Dilrukshan Wijesinghe <elaph...@gmail.com> wrote:

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John H. Epler, Ph.D.
Aquatic Entomologist
Tiger Hammock Road, just south of Wakulla Springs in north Florida
Interested in chironomid midges, water beetles or water bugs?
Please check out my site at:
http://johnepler.com

"Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés."

[Roderic D. M. Page]

Wow, I had not heard of “Natural History Literature Rescue”, this seems like a project crying out to be connected to BHL. Is anyone here a part of the Rescue? 

Regards,

Rod

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