Introducing the Chicago Underground Library Bookshelf Series, Nell and her pigs!
As some of you may know, we have moved. In the process of all those myriad moves from Nell’s apartment to the basement of Mojoe’s Café Lounge (which literally made us underground), to the dusty innards of the Butcher Shop studios, to the Congress Theater space, we have gained much insight into moving and shelving. Now safely ensconced in a space that just feels good and with plenty of room to expand and hold gatherings, a few of us had thoughts about the members who have come and gone and in particular those who have stayed for the long run. What’s on their bookshelf and what would that bookshelf say about the personality of that individual?
From that session of wondering, we thought how great would that be to introduce the awesome members of the Chicago Underground Library through their bookshelves? And here to start it is Nell Taylor who was probably also pondering the depths of her book stacks when she and her partner, Emerson Dameron, hit upon the great idea of the Chicago Underground Library:
Nell’s collection of books and pigs
My books are organized in two bookcases. The red bookcase has mostly architecture and comics and ceramic pigs. The dark wood bookcase has mostly fiction, architecture, urban planning, media criticism, outdated etiquette books and ceramic walruses. Books are shelved in descending order by height so that I can stick more books on top of them.
I have a partial LibraryThing catalog that maxes out at 200 because I’m cheap and haven’t opened a paid account. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Nell_Taylor
- Nell Taylor
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Tags: bookshelf series, Cataloging, College, LibraryThing, Nell Taylor, pigs
January 29th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
[...] As well it should! CUL has a rainbow-awesome archive, highlighting Chicago’s independent media and small press communities through an open acquisitions policy (meaning: it wants you) and a radical, straightforward cataloging process. CUL has crazy-awesome programming, riffing on everything from science fairs to roadshows to squid. Plus CUL has a straight-up-awesome staff, kind and savvy too — check the blog to drool over their bookshelves. [...]