Lost Libraries

I don’t think anything brings pain to a librarian’s heart as much as losing a library. Collectively, we still raise our glasses in tearful memorial to the ancient world’s Library of Alexandria, but that is hardly the only “lost library”...

The Library as Old as Steampunk

I love libraries. I love books. I especially love both together, and with a fine patina of age. These are the reasons I originally considered library school, as I thought it might be a good track to take for becoming an antiquarian book dealer. That was a long time...