... because we all need it, and they are blooming everywhere. Otherwise, it's been an aggressively grey and rather chilly day, made extra gloomy by my heading over to the main library to fill in a few errant footnotes - or so I thought. Wouldn't you expect an R1 university library to have standard canonical texts on the open shelves? I was looking for a copy of Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd (I have no idea where my own is, but it certainly wasn't with the rest of the Hardy volumes in my office). This is hardly a rare thing to be searching for. There was, technically, a copy - in an omnibus volume with some other Hardy novels, but that's hardly proper for footnotes. Instead - half empty shelves. I checked later, and no, of course it wasn't out - the library's various editions, including the Norton one, the OUP ones, etc etc etc, are all in the Depository. Who makes these decisions? Why? What's wrong with having books in a library?
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