Cathe’s Library April 30, 2008

Name: Cathe

Country: United States

About the library:
I have been building this library for many, many years and am quite proud of it. It currently takes up one entire wall of our living room with overflow in my shed. I have an enormous clip art library (Bottom
and middle 2 shelves to the far right) of which I use for some base illustrations, (always modifying into custom art.)

The bottom shelf holds the vintage printer clips, art catalogs and other miscellaneous
vintage art reference. The top right is my collection of rare sign-painter books. Signpainters were the original graphic designers.

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Meredith’s Library March 30, 2008

Name: Meredith

Country: United States

About the library: This is the library side of our home office/library. All of our books are on these shelves, with the exception of my husband’s psychology textbooks, my writing references, and our packed away children’s books. This collection is the culmination of my English major, his English minor, and our general bibliophilia.

In addition to providing a home for our books, these shelves double as a jungle gym for our cats. I have to do some reshuffling/reorganizing, as evidenced by the empty shelf.

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Brad’s Library January 22, 2008

Name: Brad

Country: United States

About the library: This is about 10% of my books. I like to display nonbook items, such as an old radio, a fossil, and a bust of Mozart on the shelf with the books so that the bookshelves blend in with the room. My goal is to have a den with an old wooden desk placed in the center of the room surrounded by four walls lined  floor to ceiling with books.

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Michelle’s Library December 14, 2007

Name: Michelle

Country: United States

About the library: I would probably have to take pictures of my entire apartment in order to show my entire library, but this picture shows my most number of bookshelves that are right next to each other.

Divided by genre, here you can see most of my “nonfiction,” but it’s not including antique books and anything that was purchased after November 1st. My graphic novel collection is also there, albeit a little disorganized… And of course I’ll have to mention the turtle who finds his home underneath the philosophy and religion sections. Look Inside: http://books.wherewerewe.org (in progress)

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Peter’s Library December 9, 2007

Name: Peter

Country: United States

About the library: My library is 25 x 15’ and features floor to ceiling bookshelves on all walls. I own close to 2,000 books and have room for many of them in the library. (Many others are packed in boxes and stored in my home and in storage.) My mom read all the time and encouraged me to read at a young age. My grandfather took me to the library regularly and I learned to love the look, feel, scent and quiet of libraries.

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Andrew’s Library November 9, 2007

Name: Andrew

Country: United States

About the library: I built these two freestanding oak bookshelves for our house in my garage. The shelves are quite large (5′ wide x 8.5′ tall) so it was a pretty big (and long) undertaking, but the end product made it well worth the effort.

My wife’s inspiration was the library in the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. The shelves are a little sparse right now, but we look forward to collecting more books in many years to come.

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Emily’s Library November 9, 2007

Name: Emily

Country: United States

About the library: In our apartment we have an extra small bedroom, which I’ve turned into a mini-library. I have a very comfy chair in there, and I love to read there, especially with a cup of coffee on weekend mornings. I need more shelves, I have books piled all over the apartment, but this area is my most organized library area.

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Rachel & Dan’s library October 6, 2007

Name: Rachel & Dan

Country: United States

About the library: Our home library has about 3,000 books at any given time. We are
longtime readers and book nuts and have turned that obsession into a career, as we own Old Saratoga Books in Schuylerville, New York, USA, a used and rare bookstore.

We love all kinds of books, but particularly love books about natural history, books about books, historical mysteries, jazz books, and fiction by Michael Ondaatje, George Macdonald Fraser, Sarah Bird, Charles Dickens, Russell Banks, Robertson Davies, Patrick O’Brian and Ian Rankin.

This photo shows our library in a rare state of being orderly and neat. Usually there are more piles of things around and messes from our two kids, two cats and one fuzzy St. Bernard-mix dog.

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Clary’s Library September 29, 2007

Name: Clary

Country: United States

About the library: This is my formal library right at the entrance of my home. It has plenty of shelves and an L shape with 3 station desk areas for my kids which I home school. I love the wood color with the black contrast. However this is one of three I have in my home. I have one in my bedroom and another in my private office.

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Daniel & Kimberly’s Library September 4, 2007

Name: Daniel & Kimberly

Country: United States

About the library: This is only one wall of our large library. We have bookshelves in the living room, bedroom and guest bedroom.

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