Through Book & Memory: The L/L Research Library

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Dug. You know, as the camera panned over the fastidiously organized books, each carefully labeled as to subject category and with its appropriate Dewey Decimal System call number, I was thinking: Who would go to that much trouble?!  Then a Homeric D'oh!: Carla was only a bloody professional librarian... !

It was her life's dream (or one of them, rather) to see the library catalogued. Not only to satisfy the librarian in her (her chosen vocation had not Don intervened), but Carla also envisioned a means whereby people could check out books using a computer dedicated to that purpose. This dream was developed and nurtured long before Google, of course.

So in the final months of her life we finally got cataloguing software. My wife, Trish, dewey decimalized about half the collection, then as Jade indicated, Jim, with great purpose and joy, finished the remainder. It was awesome knowing that Carla knew that her collection would finally get the official treatment before she left this incarnation.

I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your personal Alexandria. Let us hope that the Akashic Records keeps your stuff boxed up and marked with your name.