When I was a kid, I was interested in a number of professions that are now either outdated, or have changed completely. One of those dreams involved checking out books and things to patrons, and it ...

Famed naturalist Charles Darwin amassed an impressive personal library over the course of his life, much of which was preserved and cataloged upon his death in 1882. But many other items were lost, ...

In The Study (Princeton Univ., Dec.), Andrew Hui, a humanities professor at Singapore’s Yale-NUS College, chronicles the emergence of the personal library. What prompted you to write this book? This ...

In The Expression of the Emotions in Men and Animals, Charles Darwin noted his disappointment in artists, writing: “I had hoped to derive much aid from the great masters in painting and sculpture, who ...

The library appears to be well-maintained with neatly stacked books. Libraries are special in some ways. Perhaps it's the intoxicating smell of rows and rows of books, the promise of discovering new ...

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