The Hosta Library states, Hosta Library photos are not to be used without permission, even at reduced size. No exceptions. This is an old topic...There was a previous posting on this Forum regarding using photos from the Hosta Library. Bob Axmear clarified what is intended by not copying photos from the Hosta Library...Basically, he said it was fine to post photos on this Forum from the Hosta Library, but he just does not want the photos to be used for commercial purposes. His response was sent in an email dated November 29, 2009 as follows: Hi Janice, It doesn't matter how you link when you are on a forum, people just don't want their photos used on commercial websites. They pay for the photos to be taken in some instances and donate them to the library and someone else takes them and adds them to their website. Hope that is what you are wanting to know. Bye, Bob Bob Axmear, 208 2nd St NE, Waukon, IA 52172 IMO, if photos are copied or used from another source, it is proper to get permission first, to give the photographer credit, and to cite the source from which the photos were obtained, whether the photos are copyrighted or not. This is true for written material as well. Here is a link which may be helpful: Previous GardenWeb posting regarding using photos from the Hosta Library

It is not only students who are demanding and thoughtless about assignments. We asked the lecturers at our local university to give us a list of items that needed copies prepared by library staff for the next term assignments before they went away. I was told that the pressure of work caused by collecting and photocopying these books would be so great that I would not be able to take leave myself. My husband had the opportunity for us to go for a fortnight free of charge to a lovely holiday island but we had to turn it down. Only a few of the lecturers gave us lists but all those who had not demanded that we prepare their copies urgently after they returned from their trip. Would you believe that they had all gone to the holiday island! I could have gone up there and bugged them for the lists so the staff would have had the work prepared and had my freeby too! I was furious.

The end has come after an almost thirty year relationship. It was a slow and painful death with few mourners to witness the final moments and I shed a silent tear. Only yesterday the drivers were told that the Mobile Library service would finally be ending, although I had heard about it on the grape-vine. I staggered to the van with all my books and noticed everyone else had done the same; there were more volumes than I had ever seen before. We still have a branch library in our nearest town, but as I have no car I have to rely on the good-will of the DH to give me a lift and since our local Council have recently introduced 'parking charges' and he refuses to go into a Council-run car park on principle, I cannot see me using the facilities very often! Also the mobile library never charged any fines and were very reasonable about the number of weeks/months you might 'borrow' a book. I'll have to make a start on my TBR pile.

At this stage, I hardly read anything in gardening magazines. There's a wealth of information available, on-line, about gardening and some of it in isolated articles from magazines or newspapers. In the context of gardening magazines particularly, it bothers me a bit that journalists can write, apparently authoritatively, about anything. For instance, as a student, I wrote a guide to the pheasants of Springwater Park, near Barrie On. To many, it could look like I knew a lot about pheasants, but the content was simply the result of my own research, book and visiting the site. Gardening strikes me as a very hands-on endeavour. Of course, research is necessary, from reading to visiting nurseries, but things have got to be tried out/put into practice by individual gardeners. That means my respect goes out to those that do, rather than any who just write about doing. In the matter of gardening, I'd take the advice of an experienced gardener over the word of an experienced journalist. After all, who's doing for the money?