Current Events & Trends | April 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

On Bones and Libraries

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A neat essay by Colin Dickey about book-collecting and librarians featured in the Latham's Quarterly Roundtable. From the piece: "Every librarian, every book collector, finds him or herself between these two mythical places--the Perfect Library of God and the Infinite Library of Babel, the one transcribed by Jerome, the other by Borges."

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