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My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Bill Richards
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Bill Richards
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article offers information about the author's library, which consists of 3,500 volumes. The library is a systematic collection and an accumulation that reflects the changes in the author's personal and professional interests. The collection includes books dealing with politics, philosophy, literature and psychology which depicts the number of times the author has changed majors in college. The library also includes almost all of the Library of America titles such as "Great Books of the Western World," as well as history titles. It also includes children's collection like the books of Robert Sabuda.
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Dusty Gres
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Dusty Gres
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article focuses on the personal library collection of the author. She states that her first personal library collection included the books "Alice in Wonderland," "Little Women," and "Tom Sawyer." She mentions that her library has grown over the years which now houses reference collection and those from her husband's.
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Betsy Griffies
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Betsy Griffies
Georgia Library Quarterly
The author describes her personal library and collection of books. She mentions that her parents enjoyed reading when they had time. She reveals that she collects fiction books by Robert Jordan, David Eddings, Juliet Marillier and Jack McDevitt, among others. Due to her interest in books about English writer Beatrix Potter, she spent a week at the Lindeth House in the Lake District, England where the Potter family had stayed.