Libraries
I like libraries. I have spent many many hours of my life in them, enjoying them, following rabbit trails and exploring their riches. I visit libraries. I work in libraries. I write about libraries.
Yeah, so. Libraries. Maybe i’ll run into you in one someday.
A Bookstore and Library in a Church
Grover takes on the old spice guy; or the sesame street meaning of ‘on’
Libraries: The Old Spice Guy becomes spokesman for the cause d’celeb of the Library
Libraries: a parody of the old spice guy
St Deiniol’s Library: A Haven for Research
Getting Caught in the Wash of a Jet Engine; or my unexpected itinerant life
The (non)idylls of February from the cushy armchair of March
The Rules; or what Gibbs has to do with Research.
Not all Reference Libraries are equal!
A Bookstore and Library in a Church
The Reference Section and Emerson
The Basic Guide to Libraries
Libraries aren’t just a fun curiousity for me, they are a place of work. For good or ill, libraries and the librarians who run them are places and people who’ve made or broken areas of research i’ve embarked upon! I’ve shared some of my Basics Guides elsewhere, but there are a few that are specifically library related!
Good Oil: The Basics of Research and the Academy
The Basics: Why Should You Seek to Publish?
The Basics: Essential Archival Research Kit
The Basics: Using Archival and Research Libraries
The Basics: Literature and Theology Journals and Indexes
Productivity Tools for Academics, Grad Students, and Scholars
Home Libraries
I’m also fascinated by home libraries, those of great authors and those of people like me, who just love being able to read their books in a lovely environment at home! I’m also living a little vicariously until I have a chance to make a home with a library!
Using Books for Home Decoration
Home libraries: George Washington
Home Libraries: Ernest Hemingway
Home Libraries: Sherlock Holmes
Home Libraries: Arthur Conan Doyle
Home Libraries: William Randolph Hearst
Home Libraries: William F Buckley
Home Libraries: Rudyard Kipling
Home Libraries: George Bernard Shaw
Home Library: Vita Sackville-West
Home Libraries: Andrew Carnegie
Home Libraries: The Joy of Books
Home Library: Art Gallery Style Inspiration
Home Library: Doors and Ladders
Home Library: Comfortable Creative Bliss
Home Library: A House made of Books
Home Library: Albert Mohler’s personal study
Home Library: Library of the Human Imagination
Home Library: New York and a Ladder
Home Libraries: Voyuerism for the bibliophile
Listening. Observing. Participating. Writing. Photographing. Reflecting.
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Traveller. Scholar. Photographer. Writer. Dreamer. Teacher. Anna Blanch is founder of Goannatree, and a PhD candidate in the Institute of Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, Scotland.