{"id":1100,"date":"2018-02-26T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2018-02-26T21:15:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:15:37","slug":"does-the-library-take-books-out-of-circulation-and-if-so-can-i-have-the-cool-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/26\/does-the-library-take-books-out-of-circulation-and-if-so-can-i-have-the-cool-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the library take books out of circulation, and, if so, can I have the cool ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1070\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw022618-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1070\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw022618-11-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Does the library take books out of circulation, and, if so, can I have the cool ones?\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw022618-11-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw022618-11.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Does the library take books out of circulation, and, if so, can I have the cool ones?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite their organized appearance, research libraries are hoarders by nature and get rid of very little. The BC Libraries do take books out of circulation, but they are not the cool ones. Items are removed usually because they are falling apart, have been superseded by later or digital editions, or have not been used in many years. Trust me when I say they have little value except to the recycler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their organized appearance, research libraries are hoarders by nature and get rid of very little. The BC Libraries do take books out of circulation, but they are not the cool ones. Items are removed usually because they are falling apart, have been superseded by later or digital editions, or have not been used in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/26\/does-the-library-take-books-out-of-circulation-and-if-so-can-i-have-the-cool-ones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does the library take books out of circulation, and, if so, can I have the cool ones?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[24,23],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-books","tag-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}