![]() ![]() ![]() Personal Libraries – consider the Beast’s private library in Beauty And The Beast, which is glorious enough to send Belle into raptures. And when it comes to fictional libraries, it might be even harder. A couple of minutes later in movie time, someone stabs a finger at a vital bit of information and cries, “Of course! Here’s what we need to know!”Įxcept, as anyone who’s ever had to research something in a real library knows, it’s not that easy. Cue a short montage of flipping pages or unrolling scrolls or data flashing down computer screens, and possibly an action scene with the bad guys choosing that moment to ambush them. ![]() In a great many movies or books, there’s a scene where the protagonists realise that they need information, and rush to the relevant library – public or private – to research it. Her best-selling The Invisible Libraryseries follows magical librarian-spy Irene on covert adventures to different times and realms, likened to Doctor Whoand Sherlock.īut what is real research actually like? Well, not as shown in the movies… Genevieve Cogman knows a thing or two about libraries. ![]()
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