🔖 From the librarian’s desk · today’s note
The Practice and Science of Drawing
Principles that haven’t aged a day — the book this whole room leans on.
🌞 Summer shelf: Carlson season — read where the light is.
Hannah’s personal favorites · not officially on the shelves
Books that changed my life
…Hannah is still choosing. Ask her in class.
Books I disagree with
…Hannah is still choosing. Ask her in class.
Books I reread every year
…Hannah is still choosing. Ask her in class.
These three lists are in Hannah’s handwriting or they don’t go up. The drawer waits.
A puzzle from the desk
🔍 Find the Book
The librarian reads a problem aloud. Somewhere on these shelves, one spine is the answer.
The problem on the desk
Your card at this library
🔖 Reader’s Passport
Tap the little tag under any book to stamp it — reading now, read, or want to read. This page remembers.
On the reading tables
📝 Students’ Margin Notes
What readers of this room underlined, argued with, and loved.
When a book on these shelves changes your work, tell Hannah one sentence about it — and it goes up here in your words.
Behind the desk
🗝 The Locked Cabinet
Three books the librarian only lends in person.
The Art Spirit
Robert Henri
— kept behind glass because students who read it stop showing up to class. They’re too busy painting.
Hawthorne on Painting
Charles Hawthorne
— scraps of advice his students wrote down on the beach at Provincetown. Read one scrap before every session.
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
This copy is always checked out — you’ll find it open in the Van Gogh room, Dear Theo wall.