"I See Dead People's Books"

A group for those interested and involved in entering the personal libraries of famous readers into LibraryThing as Legacy Libraries.

If you'd like to join a Legacy project already underway, please use the contact information listed here, or contact jbd1.

If you'd like to start a new Legacy project, visit the Cataloging Guide and learn how to get started. Also see the wiki page for more info. Please make sure someone hasn't already started a project for your subject before getting underway.

Questions? Comments? Additions? Contact jbd1.

NB: This is an LT standing group, so there's no need to join. Just jump right in and participate!

Libraries-in-progress - click here to see ongoing projects and sign up to volunteer.

Completed libraries - click here to see libraries which have already been entered.

Total members: 272 members

Recent members: bibliogirl07, charlespuskas, FinanceMinister, tlmwilliams, MJC1946, jnt1, wintering, kerowhack, fessjarmer, angatlin, amybitten, FemmeNoiresque, keremix, bibliofk, Jarcuri12, amradio, LordSebastianFlyte, genaverse, timspalding, organizizer, Anna-Marie, LisaShapter, stayathomelibrarian, bygonebks, Kuiperdolin, Somacoma, mel-L-co0l-j, vahistoricalsociety, SunUp, theblueoyster

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David Markson's Library 2jbd1, August 10ignore
Melchor Perez de Soto: a book collector faces the Inquistion 1benjclark, August 10ignore
Joseph Smith's, books 25Katya0133, August 8ignore
Evelyn Waugh 3jburlinson, July 19ignore
Any Book in Hemingway's Library, $200 5thornton37814, July 18ignore
Robert Graves 9jbd1, July 13ignore
May Mob Catalog on Monday - Ralph Ellison 34timspalding, July 12ignore
Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 4jbd1, July 12ignore
Hermann Hesse 2jcbrunner, July 1ignore
Samuel Johnson's Undergraduate Library 1moibibliomaniac, June 28ignore
Gustave Flaubert 4Kuiperdolin, June 27ignore
Nicholas Basbanes 10WholeHouseLibrary, June 1ignore
Kipling association copy discovered 12benjclark, June 1ignore
Error Scavenger Hunt 14MMcM, May 29ignore
Michel de Montaigne 2timspalding, May 24ignore
Anybody up for a mob-catalog? 27jbd1, May 16ignore
So, who is collecting... 5benjclark, May 13ignore
Pepys' Library 6thorold, April 28ignore
Art Garfunkel 4READ-180, April 27ignore
Anyone going? Presidential Libraries.... 1benjclark, April 23ignore
Calling all Washington Books 3jbd1, April 19ignore
Organizing the List 10Scarlett0Hara, April 17ignore
Bob Menzies (Australian Prime Minister) 3ForeignCircus, April 12ignore
David Foster Wallace 3benjclark, March 22ignore
SLOW, VERY SLOW 5jcbrunner, March 18ignore
Anyone up for Charles Darwin? 15benjclark, March 16ignore
Even more flash-mob ideas 15Katya0133, March 8ignore
Personal Libraries Library 2jbd1, March 8ignore
Monthly Flash-Mob Postmortem 18jbd1, March 6ignore
Hop Aboard and Catalog the U.S.S. California's Library! 102bokai, March 6ignore
JSTOR Auction Catalogs 2Katya0133, March 5ignore
Updates/Dormancies 34ForeignCircus, March 4ignore
The Beagle and the H.M.S. California: Impressions 19benjclark, March 4ignore
Monthly overnight flash-mob? 43jbd1, March 2ignore
Books that thumbnail libraries 4benjclark, February 27ignore
William Butler Yeats 33jbd1, February 25ignore
Ian Fleming 36jbd1, February 25ignore
Post 1963 library... 9timspalding, February 24ignore
Flash mob TONIGHT? Jackie Kennedy's White House Library 129carport, February 24ignore
White House Library; What does it mean? 9timspalding, February 23ignore
Sale catalogues of libraries of eminent persons 3timspalding, February 23ignore
Richmal Crompton 4andyl, February 23ignore
Best Read Prez's and their books 1benjclark, February 18ignore
Uses for the new pictures... 7EowynA, February 16ignore
Arthur Conan Doyle - progress report 1ACDoyleLibrary, February 8ignore
Thomas Mann personal library repatriation 26jcbrunner, January 31ignore
Feynman 9Katya0133, January 26ignore
Use of Blanket Authors 3jbd1, January 21ignore
We are not the first... 3jbd1, January 20ignore
New LL Article in new issue of Common-Place 1benjclark, January 16ignore
Vincent van Goh 2moibibliomaniac, January 15ignore
Harold Pinter 1benjclark, January 8ignore
Jack Kerouac 4Pitoucat, January 6ignore
Roger Mifflin 9jbd1, January 5ignore
E.E. CUMMINGS LIBRARY COMPLETE (?) 3elenchus, December 2009ignore
Connection problems in LLs(?) 8C.S._Lewis, December 2009ignore
Suggestions for other libraries to enter 152jburlinson, December 2009ignore
Friedrich Nietzsche 11YagamiLight, December 2009ignore
The Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Oscar Wilde 2benjclark, December 2009ignore
Interesting post on Longfellow 2jbd1, December 2009ignore
James Boswell's Library 5thorold, November 2009ignore
new library: Hannah Arendt 5rsterling, November 2009ignore
Harry Houdini 2krolik, October 2009ignore
Rear Admiral George H. Preble 7GeorgeHPreble, October 2009ignore
Dwight D. Eisenhower 3jbd1, October 2009ignore
Capt. Scott of the South Pole 3benjclark, October 2009ignore
Robert Smithson 5artcat, October 2009ignore
Russell Kirk's library 4Russell_Kirk, October 2009ignore
Congratulations Jeremy! 6clamairy, October 2009ignore
The Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson 5jbd1, September 2009ignore
Juice Leskinen 7Anneli, September 2009ignore
Neil Gaimans library 4clamairy, September 2009ignore
Updates? 11jbd1, September 2009ignore
Secret, fun project 1BOB81, September 2009ignore
C. S. Lewis 86BOB81, August 2009ignore
How is this being done? 10bookblogger, August 2009ignore
C. S. Lewis library PDF page range claim thread 66cnb, August 2009ignore
Reference Librarians in the News 4Larxol, August 2009ignore
Christopher Wren 1benjclark, August 2009ignore
Mark Twain 4skg046, August 2009ignore
Maupertuis: me and three dead and famous people 3bernsad, July 2009ignore
The Invisible Library 13argyriou, July 2009ignore
We've been posted in a Writer's Magazine 3jbd1, July 2009ignore
Truman Capote 4benjclark, July 2009ignore
Astrid Lindgren’s Book Collection 14anglemark, June 2009ignore
Chester Ashley 1Katya0133, June 2009ignore
Louisa May Alcott 12Maidas9, May 2009ignore
The Paul Avrich Collection 5eromsted, May 2009ignore
Wikipedia redux 22aynar, May 2009ignore
Anybody in Philly? (Secret mission) 9BOB81, April 2009ignore
Legacy Library Podcast 1timspalding, April 2009ignore
Meaning of "incomplete" 8jbd1, April 2009ignore
Freud 4koffieyahoo, April 2009ignore
Somebody's been eating my porridge . . . 3timspalding, April 2009ignore
1st Lady Edith Roosevelt 1benjclark, April 2009ignore
Dabney Carr 4jbd1, April 2009ignore
Margaret of York's Library is done 1EowynA, April 2009ignore
status report - Gerald Gardner 1sailordanae, April 2009ignore
The original shelf list of the Social Law Library in Boston 2jbd1, April 2009ignore
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