You will never look at your bookshelves the same way again. For the Love of Books is about storytelling beyond the pages of our favorite books. Our books—the ones we choose to keep—tell the story of who we are.
The essays look to insights from fields as diverse as forest management, library science, and the psychology of compulsive hoarding, to inform and innovate collection practices.
" Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job.
I loved this book!"—Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore Anxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following a librarian whose quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless ...
This book, written by one of the designers of generics, is a thorough explanation of how to use generics, and particularly, the effect this facility has on the way developers use collections.
Berger offers a landmark examination of this field, aimed at practitioners, instructors, booksellers, private collectors, historians, bibliophiles, and others involved in rare and unique materials.
It holds a collection of oral history interviews, music tracks/scores/lyrics, audiovisual and sound recordings which are valuable to Singapore as a nation. The technical issues affecting the long term survival and accessibility of the ...
Creating Fun and Fascinating Collections! Pam Price. Longtime collectors know that their interest in collecting comes and goes. After collecting avidly for years, they may lose interest. When this happens, they just leave their ...
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the many ways in which groups of objects can be collected, categorized and displayed. The book also contains six pages of colourful stickers. By the award-winning Nina Chakrabarti.