#lost libraries

[lakecountylibrary]

If the library is your happy place...

Sean suggests these library-themed reads!

This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson

Unshelved by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines

Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War 2 and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan

Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity by James Raven

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter

Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library by Don Borchert

See more of Sean’s recs!

[creator-of-masks]

A day late, but still!

[evelynstarshine]

the library of alexandria was a colonial institution run by an occupation to serve its colonial citizens. It was also comparatively small to many other lost libraries. Use the House of Wisdom/Library of Baghdad or the Library at Nalanda for your examples as they were better, bigger, non european and also burned down.

[cooperwest-wtr]

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” in history. Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to the topic of destroyed libraries (yes, librarians use Wikipedia, we think it is a great resource!…just not the…

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[slightlyignorant]

[arielsteiner]

Nerdfighters have done so much research into the great and terrible library of Ivan the Terrible that we are now the largest resource on the entire internet on the topic. And the story they've uncovered is crazy, Hank, it involves like fireproof dungeons, and crucified skeletons and a supposedly blind architect; it's like National Treasure only it's real and the role of Nicholas Cage is played by nerds.

John Green talking to his brother about the lost library of Russian tsar, Ivan the Terrible, and the task he set the internet to do a few weeks ago.