TARAS Library open for business!

[GONESNAKEE]

TARAS has started a small collection of Herp related books that have been donated to the society to be enjoyed by the membership. These books will be made available for loan at our monthly meetings. Please contact me prior the meetings to reserve titles to be picked up at the meetings. I'm going to go with a 3 book lending maximum per person at one time for now. Books requested will be brought to the meeting for member pick up to be dropped back off in the same condition they were lent out at the next monthly meeting to be made available to other members. The 1 month lending period should be plenty time to read the book(s). Hopefully this "honor system" will work as I don't want to have to hunt down & kill people to get the books back (joking, maybe LOL). The titles available are listed below by title/author & the generous folks whom provided it to us. THX Mark

06/001 The Art of Keeping Snakes - deVosjoli (donated by Jim & Jodi Dyke)
06/002 Whats Wrong with My Snake? - Rossi (donated by Jim & Jodi Dyke)
06/003 The Lizard Keepers Handbook - deVosjoli (donated by Jim & Jodi Dyke)
06/004 Lizards - Case (donated by Jim & Jodi Dyke)

07/001 Desert snakes of North America - W.P. Mara (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/002 Pine Snakes A Complete Guide - W.P. Mara (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/003 Garter & Ribbon Snakes - W.P. Mara (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/004 Gray Banded Kingsnakes - Jerry Walls (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/005 Rat Snakes - Jerry Walls (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/006 Green Snakes - W.P. Mara (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/007 Axolotls, Care of - Peter W. Scott (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/008 Guide To Owning Savannah Monitor - John Coborn (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/009 Agamid Lizards - David J. Zoffer (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/010 Caribbean Anoles - Heselhaus & Schmidt (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/011 Blue-Tongued Skinks, Keeping of - Jerry Walls (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/012 Harlequin Frogs - Heselhaus & Schmidt (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/013 Guide To Owning A Mantella - Stanszewski (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/014 Horned Frogs - Hunziker (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)
07/015 Red Eared Slider - Jordan Patterson (donated by Rolf C. Hagen Inc.)

08/001 Scorpions, A Complete Pet Owner's Manual - Manny Rubio (donated by Carol Farkas)
08/002 Scorpions, Plus Other Popular Inverterbrates - Jerry G. Walls (donated by "Crazy" Joe - C.I.A.)
08-003 Tarantulas - Jerry G. Walls (donated by "Crazy" Joe - C.I.A.)
08-004 The Tarantula Keeper's Guide - Stanley A. Schultz & Marguerite J. Schultz (donated by "Crazy" Joe - C.I.A.)

Additional titles will be listed as they are donated THX to those who have provided books thus far.

[tonyj]

Good job Mark!

[FEEVER]

If we have good used books can we donate them aswell ? and where should we take them or just bring to the meeting ?

[jjreps]

You can bring them to a meeting or if youd like you can drop them off at J&J Reptiles. #2 3407 17th Ave SE.

Jim

[FrogO_Oeyes]

There are a number of other books as well, plus a large stack of exchange journals going back 20 years. I don't have the latter, but it's possible I have some of the books buried in the basement. Most of that stuff was turned over to others 10-12 years ago.

[GONESNAKEE]

There are a number of other books as well, plus a large stack of exchange journals going back 20 years. I don't have the latter, but it's possible I have some of the books buried in the basement. Most of that stuff was turned over to others 10-12 years ago.

Unless these other books that we have all heard existed once, but have never ever seen, surface & are passed on to myself (the acting librarian) they don't exist as far as I'm concerned. Thus why all the currently owned TARAS books have been listed here publicly so we have a documented record of what they are (an up to date current valid inventory) & more importantly WHERE they are. Of course any books that were formerly owned by TARAS will be accepted back to add into the new library along with any other books folks are willing to donate. All books in the current library will be documented & kept track of properly as to not disappear as has apparently been the fate of the entire previous TARAS library. If you could check to see if any of the old reference material is stashed away in your basement & forward it to myself Andrew that would be great THX Mark
P.S. anyone else that has any other long lost TARAS stuff surface please forward it as well THX Also we have various "mail outs" from other herp clubs that Tony has been currently holding that we will be making part of the library eventually as well. These are only the last few years worth though.

[GONESNAKEE]

Tony has forwarded the "mail outs" from other Societies & they are now also part of the Library. I'm not going to list all of these, but will make mention of the periodical bulletions from both Chicago & New Zealand Societies as they are the most "worthy" of the "mailouts" we recv. IMHO Mark

[FrogO_Oeyes]

We still get New Zealand? Sweet. It was a looooong time ago I set up the exchange with them.

[GONESNAKEE]

We still get New Zealand? Sweet. It was a looooong time ago I set up the exchange with them.

I think we do unless the ones I was looking at were all old ones, but I'm pretty sure there were some more current ones there too. Mark

[nox invictus profundum]

I have a couple titles that I meant to bring to the last meeting (I'm still really PO'd about missing that) both are in the AVS Herpetocultural series. The titles are simply Tarantulas, and Scorpions, both authored by Jerry G. Walls. I'm hunting for a decent copy of Stan Schultz's book as well.