|  Legacy LibrariesA group for those interested and involved in entering the personal libraries of famous readers into LibraryThing as Legacy Libraries. For discussions of the libraries of those still among the living, head on over to the "Other Peoples' Libraries" group.
Browse, search, and augment Legacy Library data via the Legacy Libraries page.
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 Legacy Libraries page for more info. Please make sure someone hasn't already started a project for your subject before getting underway.
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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | Inclusion of works by the subject of a legacy library | | 2 | jbd1, Today 6:45am |  |
| Teddy Roosevelt | | 4 | barney67, Yesterday 9:23pm |  |
| Eisenhower's library | | 20 | jbd1, Yesterday 6:41pm |  |
| Truman's Library | | 5 | jbd1, Monday 12:00pm |  |
| George Wallace | | 20 | jbd1, May 8 |  |
| FDR | | 2 | Muscogulus, May 3 |  |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | | 13 | Muscogulus, May 1 |  |
| A book owned by Shakespeare? | | 10 | neopet_luver009, April 27 |  |
| Patrick Henry | | 3 | jbd1, April 10 |  |
| George Washington | | 5 | benjclark, April 8 |  |
| W. H. Auden Library correction | | 3 | aulsmith, March 17 |  |
| Frank Lloyd Wright - opinions wanted! | | 6 | jbd1, March 16 |  |
| Andy Warhol | | 7 | sweetiegherkin, March 5 |  |
| Have data entry skills and would like to help | | 5 | varielle, February 22 |  |
| Off topic? | | 9 | Osbaldistone, February 6 |  |
| Jefferson active again? | | 13 | Leonard72, January 24 |  |
| Kipling Flash-mob! | | 88 | BuiltByBooks, December 2012 |  |
| Marlene Dietrich | | 9 | LolaWalser, December 2012 |  |
| the library in Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle | | 16 | 2wonderY, November 2012 |  |
| In honor of Halloween (and the Frankenstorm ...) | | 7 | elenchus, October 2012 |  |
| Mini flash-mob for Spinoza's Library | | 30 | jbd1, October 2012 |  |
| Dickens' Fake Books | | 20 | Osbaldistone, October 2012 |  |
| Happy Birthday Legacies! | | 9 | Africansky1, October 2012 |  |
| Rembrandt | | 4 | BarkingMatt, October 2012 |  |
| Plans for 5th-birthday celebrations ... | | 11 | jbd1, August 2012 |  |
| Kipling association copy discovered | | 23 | jbd1, August 2012 |  |
| Gustave Flaubert | | 7 | benjclark, August 2012 |  |
| Ngaio Marsh | | 5 | Ireadthereforeiam, July 2012 |  |
| President James A. Garfield | | 2 | benjclark, July 2012 |  |
| Sigmund Freud | | 10 | jcbrunner, July 2012 |  |
| Lisa Simpson | | 7 | jbd1, July 2012 |  |
| Any intrest in Margaret Mitchell? | | 1 | TLCrawford, July 2012 |  |
| Calling all Washington Books | | 4 | benjclark, June 2012 |  |
| Jack Kerouac | | 16 | Pitoucat, May 2012 |  |
| A tangent: Princess Diana's record collection | | 3 | krolik, May 2012 |  |
| LLs at Flavorwire | | 7 | jbd1, May 2012 |  |
| Legacy library of Fernando Pessoa, portuguese poet (requesting some help) | | 6 | StephenMaturin, May 2012 |  |
| Legacy Library home page displaying oddly | | 8 | conceptDawg, April 2012 |  |
| New LLs Blog Post, &c. | | 12 | jbd1, April 2012 |  |
| Harry Houdini | | 20 | jbd1, April 2012 |  |
| Carson McCullers | | 2 | jbd1, April 2012 |  |
| Flash-Mob for Frederick Douglass! | | 24 | jbd1, April 2012 |  |
| Henry Miller? | | 1 | poetontheone, February 2012 |  |
| Harriet Tubman book | | 1 | benjclark, February 2012 |  |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | | 2 | devenish, February 2012 |  |
| Ngaio Marsh | | 1 | nbtOO, January 2012 |  |
| Djuna Barnes and Katherine Anne Porter | | 2 | jbd1, January 2012 |  |
| Emily Dickinson: "Replenishing the Shelves" at the Dickinson Homestead | | 7 | benjclark, December 2011 |  |
| Evelyn Waugh complete | | 7 | jburlinson, December 2011 |  |
| David Markson's Library | | 4 | benjclark, December 2011 |  |
| Boston Globe Article | | 3 | janeajones, December 2011 |  |
| New Legacy Library: Bud Flounders Gay Fiction Collection | | 6 | rsterling, October 2011 |  |
| Christopher Columbus | | 2 | Katya0133, October 2011 |  |
| Flash-mob! Catalog Graham Greene's Library | | 48 | jbd1, October 2011 |  |
| Union College's First Library | | 2 | moibibliomaniac, September 2011 |  |
| New Libraries added to Wiki | | 5 | jbd1, September 2011 |  |
| FYI, Frederick Douglass | | 6 | jbd1, September 2011 |  |
| Frederick Douglass' library | | 1 | KCGordon, September 2011 |  |
| KJV aboard the Mayflower | | 2 | jbd1, September 2011 |  |
| Bob Hope's Library | | 4 | mandymarie20, September 2011 |  |
| new library: Hannah Arendt | | 21 | rsterling, September 2011 |  |
| David Foster Wallace | | 5 | jburlinson, September 2011 |  |
| Snarky Pairing of Legacy Libraries | | 10 | elenchus, September 2011 |  |
| Annotated Books blog post | | 1 | benjclark, September 2011 |  |
| Pepys' Library | | 8 | michigantrumpet, September 2011 |  |
| Articles or books about cataloging notable people's personal libraries? | | 6 | jbd1, August 2011 |  |
| Good Flash-mob candidates? Possibly Graham Greene? | | 8 | jburlinson, August 2011 |  |
| Hannah Arendt Library: Order of Listings | | 6 | katkat50, August 2011 |  |
| Susan Sontag | | 4 | rsterling, August 2011 |  |
| Space Station collection | | 63 | jbd1, July 2011 |  |
| New Legacy Libraries Goodness | | 34 | LucindaLibri, July 2011 |  |
| The Murie Library | | 7 | bokai, July 2011 |  |
| Name spelled wrong | | 2 | jbd1, July 2011 |  |
| James Boswell's Library | | 6 | benjclark, July 2011 |  |
| Guardian Book Blog -- "The World's Biggest Book Club" | | 2 | vpfluke, July 2011 |  |
| Julia Child | | 2 | Katya0133, July 2011 |  |
| Bob Marley | | 1 | benjclark, July 2011 |  |
| Anyone up for Charles Darwin? | | 17 | jbd1, June 2011 |  |
| Flannery O'Connor | | 6 | fscottfitzjamie, June 2011 |  |
| Logon change on two libs | | 4 | jbd1, June 2011 |  |
| New Legacy Library:(Miss) Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861) | | 18 | PhaedraB, June 2011 |  |
| Jefferson's Greek Textbook for sale | | 3 | jbd1, June 2011 |  |
| Marilyn Monroe lot numbers | | 36 | jbd1, June 2011 |  |
| I am so new and, well, what about John Muir? | | 5 | pre20cenbooks, June 2011 |  |
| Sir Walter Scott | | 23 | benjclark, May 2011 |  |
| Reverse set-libraries | | 6 | timspalding, May 2011 |  |
| What's up with Humboldt? | | 2 | benjclark, May 2011 |  |
| Norman Mailer | | 2 | Katya0133, May 2011 |  |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | | 1 | benjclark, April 2011 |  |
| Physical Description Fields & LLs | | 3 | jbd1, April 2011 |  |
| Good Generic image? | | 9 | PhaedraB, April 2011 |  |
| George Orwell Library | | 2 | jbd1, April 2011 |  |
| F Scott Fitzgerald's schoolbook | | 1 | benjclark, April 2011 |  |
| Roberto Bolano's stolen books | | 2 | LolaWalser, March 2011 |  |
| Legacy Library statistics: skewed to recent titles | | 3 | elenchus, March 2011 |  |
| Herman Melville | | 8 | jbd1, March 2011 |  |
| New Book: Other People's Books: Association Copies and the Stories They Tell | | 8 | benjclark, March 2011 |  |
| Stats | | 2 | jbd1, March 2011 |  |
| How do you join a completed project? | | 5 | jbd1, March 2011 |  |
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