The essays in Private Libraries and their Documentation revolve around the users and contents of early modern private book collections, and around the sources used to document and study these ...collections. They take the reader from large-scale projects on historical book ownership to micro-level research conducted on individual libraries, and from analyses of specific types of primary sources to general typologies and overviews by period and by region. As a result of its comparative approach and active engagement with questions regarding the nature, selection and accessibility of sources, the volume serves as a guide to sources and resources in different regions as well as to state-of the-art methods and interpretational approaches.
Bowers discusses her own private library. She explains that as a librarian, she has acquired fewer books for her personal collection due to the wealth of resources available through library networks. ...However, she has developed a small but focused special collection of books, DVDs, and ephemera about Ireland, which she acquired during her travels there as the director of the university's Honors College program in Waterford. She describes her experiences exploring Ireland and visiting various bookshops, including the Long Room at Trinity University Library and the Book Centre in Waterford. She also discusses her favorite reading themes, such as animals, cultural practices, language, and food, and highlights specific books in her collection, including Marita Conlon-McKenna's "Under the Hawthorn Tree" and "Wildflower Girl." Bowers also mentions her interest in the Irish language and Gaelic sports, as well as her use of a pocket Moleskine notebook to keep track of her questions and research.
My Own Private Library Hale, Timothy Cole
The Georgia library quarterly,
04/2023, Letnik:
60, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Hale discusses his private library. He states that he dedicated his graduate studies to hippies, and between purchasing monographs to build the apparatus for his thesis and winning a grant organized ...by Dr. Nick Wilding at Georgia State University to purchase first and early editions of books from the era, he built up quite a collection. The books in his personal library can be summarized into three categories: products of the counterculture, philosophies of the counterculture, and reflections of the counterculture. The first of these categories is the most obvious: products. These are works produced directly by prominent figures in the movement that became essential reading for those who were part of it. The most well-known example is The Electric KoolAid Acid Test, in which Tom Wolfe chronicles Ken Kesey's famous cross-country trip in 1964 to promote Kesey's book Sometimes a Great Notion.
This edited collection offers the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as ...in guiding the tastes of book collectors.
By examining clerical book collections in Norway 1650-1750, this book describes the flow of books in one of the northernmost areas of Europe, a flow dependant on three networking areas in particular, ...namely Germany, the Netherlands and England.
My Own Priviate Library Rogers, Sarah
The Georgia library quarterly,
07/2020, Letnik:
57, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Rodgers talks about her private library. In the beginning, when they first moved to the house, she ambitiously organized her books by color. That quickly devolved, leaving choices up to what caught ...the eye first. The Frog Princess by E D Baker, with its bright pink cover, jumped out at her immediately, along with Jean Ferris' Once Upon a Marigold. They weren't the only fairytale remakes that she hoarded; her favorite book, Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted, sat near them with a worn cover.
The author would expect that many librarians share my “origin story” when it comes to books and book collecting: it started in a library and has come full circle back to one. The author's love for ...books first began at the Richland County Public Library in Columbia, SC. One summer, the library was offering a dragon iron on patch to any child who completed their summer reading requirements. The author wanted the iron on patch so bad that he started reading in earnest. That experience established his love of reading and book collecting. In fact, the author wanted books so bad, he started fighting with my brothers to claim ownership of mutual favorites. The author always have a laugh when he opens the ones he still has and see where we had repeatedly crossed out each other’s name.
Hale discusses her personal library. She states that when she thinks of her personal library, it is kind of all over the house. Her favorite reading spot is by her lamp made from books (yes, it ...works) and it is the coolest thing that she has bought from a thrift store. She comments that her love for reading started as a young child. Being the youngest, she was always reading. She would go to the bookmobile (this is a vehicle that came to the neighborhood with books for checkout). Having an opportunity to check books out in her neighborhood gave her no excuse not to read. She was always so excited on the days when the bookmobile was coming. She grew up in a small town with limited resources, so the bookmobile gave her something to look forward to.
