Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and a former speechwriter for the Clinton White House, edited the two volumes.

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This week, a junior at New York University committed suicide in Bobst Library, the main library on campus.

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Johnson Library, a midcentury futuristic cube at the University of Texas at Austin, the imperial and the folksy are at odds: Sweeping travertine stairs and a monumental display of scarlet storage boxes emblazoned with gold presidential seals contrast with an animatronic, Stetson-wearing Johnson posed at a split-rail fence.

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Green Library, on the campus of Stanford University, and collects at least a thousand books, which are taken to an undisclosed location and scanned, page by page, into an enormous database being created by Google.

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It operates through a partnership among the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, the Simon Fraser University Library, the School of Education at Stanford University, and the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University.

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Dr Douglas Cowie, a lecturer in creative writing at Royal Holloway London University, in Egham, said commercial fiction, romantic or otherwise, was usually a popular library choice.

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