"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

Created: Sep 3, 2007 by jbd1

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