Green Group discussion

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/...

This is a lovely heritage article about women riding their own horses and mules to deliver library books around Kentucky. The 1930s and 40s are shown.

Librarians are wonderful! Also pretty tough if the photos are considered.

Awesome! I grew up in Indiana, so these intrepid librarians were practically next-door neighbors. I wonder if this program ever expanded to our state? I'll have to research that...

All new to me so I'd be pleased to read any articles you find.

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek has been written about these ladies in Kentucky.
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Next in the series! A great read.
The Book Woman's Daughter

Ancient and medieval libraries wrote and copied by hand.
Sometimes, they recycled paper, which was expensive, and bound other books with scraps.

https://gizmodo.com/tales-of-merlin-a...

"In 2019, scholars at Cambridge University Library discovered an extremely rare 750-year-old text on the legends of King Arthur hiding in plain sight. A fragment of the fragile manuscript had been repurposed in the binding of a 16th-century property record, making it almost impossible to study the medieval text without dismantling and certainly damaging the record’s cover. Almost impossible—but not completely.

An interdisciplinary team of scholars from the University of Cambridge used various advanced imaging techniques to create a virtual copy of the binding, allowing them to digitally unfold the rare text without having to damage it or the property record. This ground-breaking approach also preserves the artifact as an example of 16th-century archival binding practice, which is “a piece of history in its own right,” Irène Fabry-Tehranchi, a French Specialist in Collections and Academic Liaison at Cambridge University Library who was involved in the project, explained in a university statement."

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merlin-...