Having returned to London wet and hungry after hiking Hadrian's Wall (see blog entries for Hadrian Wall hike), I tagged along with my fellow librarians to The National Art Library at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. This is a reference-only library. Registered readers are allowed to look at materials in the library's reading room and may use digital cameras to make copies.
Our tour guide took us to the periodicals storage area which houses art sales catalogs and art exhibition catalogs from around the world.
At another part of the library, we were shown some unusual handmade books that are works of art. One book was page-after-page of ever changing strings, while another book was a series of tunnels. My favorite was the nutshell book made of an actual nutshell. Inside was a tiny book with pictures of various nuts.
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