for all you moderns out there...
Reading an article from BBC news my friend Charles Harrison posted on his fb profile about the Billy, the most popular mass-produced bookcase in the world sold by Ikea, I was intrigued and inspired. The author not only chronicled the design and development of the Billy but also raised some great questions about the importance of displaying books and what a collection of books says about the collector. So, similar to my recent post on the iPod, I ask the question, "What story do your books (and how you display them) tell?" As I reflect on this question, two particular items are brought to mind: church libraries and the bookcase of a mechanic friend of mine. What do church libraries, how they are set up, where they are set, and how they are accessed tell you about a church? I believe these collections, their location in reference to the main flow of the church, and their contents tell a particular story about that congregation. It has, however, always been a myster...