Right smack in the middle of the main floor of Concordia Seminary's library stands an enormous Christmas Tree. But this is no ordinary Christmas Tree made of fir or pine or plastic. This one is made out of books created and built by Jill Oschwald, wife of Professor Jeff Oschwald with some help from their daughter and maybe one or two others.
Amazing technical feat and a backache at the end, I'd wager. Those books look heavy. What books are they?
They're catelogs of a kind I do not recognize.
And on top...
The angel.
A job well done, Jill. I can't even imagine what it took to do this.
I think the books are The National Union Catalog of Pre-1956 Imprints. A massive cataloging project carried out at the Library of Congress in the 1960s and concluded sometime in the mid-1970s.
Posted by: Harvey West | December 03, 2011 at 12:21 AM
You're correct Harvey, there sure are a lot of those books and we seem to have them all.
Posted by: Diane | December 03, 2011 at 07:29 AM