In the third episode of this four-part series on personal libraries, Jason Camlot and Jeffrey Weingarten, coeditors of Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books, examine what’s lost when libraries discard volume duplicates or rely solely on digital copies. Highlighting the traces left from marginalia, publisher blurbs, and differing publication years, our guests discuss what these intricacies can reveal about the cultural moment. In addition, Jason and Jeffrey define the many forms academic libraries can take and the malleability of collections by adapting to a space—an academic library, museum, archival storage—and its intrinsic values and demands.

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