This link lists the majority (but not all) books in the library.
Frank's Library - Scans of covers of books and Pamphlets - Note: Not a complete list of everything - see above for complete list of titles in library..
About this page
This is a private site. If I haven't personally given you a password you shouldn't be here.
The Turtle PDF section consists of PDFs of turtle articles, books, and book parts, though there are a few other miscellaneous herp articles as well.
The pdf listings can be searched by selecting the author from the author list and that will go to all titles for that author. In addition, using your browser search function, typing in any word or string will will allow you to find that text anywhere on the page. This turtle section has been totally rewritten as of October 2023. Mark Yoshimi gets all the credit for how this program is working. He literally took it out of the dark ages.
The Library section The Library section contains all (majority done) of the Books and pamphlets in the library with scans of the spine, cover, title page, and publishing information.My long-term plan is to include everything I currently have in the library. As of May 2024 this section has been rewritten to update the menu functions. It is still a work in progress and aditions are ongoing.
Turtles for the blind.
Turtles for the blind. As I get older my eyesight is not what it used to be. To be able to continue using some of the literature I have accumulated over the years I have decided to try and scan in as much of it as possible. The scans will make it possible to enlarge the text on the screen to be read.
Again - This is a private site. If I haven't personally given you a password you shouldn't be here. See note below.
October 25, 2025 - Site was moved to a new server. Several updates to the programing. There are about 300 links to pdfs that don't work. I am fixing them as I find them.
May 11, 2024 - Major updates was completed on both the pdf and library parts of this site. Everything should now be working in the new format. I still have a few hundred articles which will soon be incorporated into the main index. The Journal page is now in the new format but I still have to work on getting everything into the proper order and will be adding many more issues.
It's now October 2023 and I am just now starting to put the Turtle PDF's pages (new version) onto the server. Much of the "Hints" and "How to use this page" stuff below and on the "Cheat Sheet", may still apply in the library section, but are no longer of use in the Turtle PDF portion of this site. Everything has been re-written and hopefully the menus are self-explanatory. If not send me a note.
June 2023 - It's been a long time since an update here but a lot has been going on. We should have a new format up and working shortly. Stay tuned.
More as I think of it - send me a note if you have any questions or comments.
March 23, 2019 - Bullfrog section is still very much a work in progress. Still transfering about 1,000 titles into the new format.
February 13, 2019 - It's been a couple of months now since I moved my Library listing and the turtle PDF work area onto this server. Most everything should be working now except for the "Bullfrogs". At this point entries are updated somewhere in the B's or so. All the pdf's are there and accessable only by their pdf file name. There is a word document there that will match up the pdf name with the titles so you can still find them by using that. Just not done adding them in yet busy working on other parts of this thing.
At this point if you see a link that doesn't work (unless it's in the Bullfrog section) please let me know. I knew of four links that did not work but I lost my note on them before I made the changes. I'm sure those and many more are still there.
I've started adding PDFs of turtle sections/parts from various books and adding them to the book citations already in the Library program as well as adding them with all the other turtle pdf files.
Previous notes below were undated. Just the last couple of months when I moved everything to this server. - Lots of path names needed to be changed to get everything to work with all the links.
This site is under construction big time. The entire libray portion needs all kinds changes to be made to work on this server. Most pages have at least one link that will get you back to the main menu. Hopefully this will be fixed shortly.
I'm having a lot of problems with "blank spaces" in the programs and file names. Some of those links won't work until I find them. No need to tell me about them at this point (unless it's a major link to something) as I'm probably sorting some of those out as you are reading this.
NOTE!
This site is not to be used for any purpose other than private study, scholorship or research.
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. I and this institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.
