Greetings, gentle reader! The heat dome is upon us, and it sucks a whole lot, but I am pleased to announce that I have finished the letter F!
Things I learned from F:
- I’m going to need to spend at least a month in France one of these summers. The National Library of France has so many editions and translations that I just don’t easily have access to here in the US.
- The Fondren library at Rice, the Folger, and Princeton’s libraries are all must visits (Princeton is in this section because of listings in the Firestone library, which leads into the next point).
- I’ve finally come to the conclusion that, because my info about which books are where within an institution with multiple libraries is a bit suspect, I really need to just group institutional holdings together, with rare exceptions (such as the Lewis Walpole Library and the Beinecke). So I’m finding separate sections I have for an institution and pulling them together, since they’re usually in the same catalog. This also went for the Five Colleges consortium, since they all share the same library catalog system.
The good news is that G is going to be short. H, however, is going to take quite a while given the Harry Ransom Library and the Houghton, for examples. In the meantime, I have been trying to pick out the readings I checked out of the library. I’m starting to sort of coalesce on an idea for moving forward, but I’m not entirely there yet.
Number of libraries confirmed: 184
Number of libraries entered into the database: 2
Number of extant copies confirmed: 688
Lennox Bibliography Project 