Found in the stacks

I work at a university library and went through a period where I was fascinated by what gets left behind in books and randomly (but intentionally by the person/people who leave it there) in the stacks. I found all sorts of things, and people I worked with would bring what they found, too. I had a mini exhibit of sorts in my office and got to put together a display of the ephemera in the front lobby display case; it was a lot of fun! In the pics: that's me holding up a life-size cutout of Ryan Gosling that was taped up in the gov docs, a half-clothed Barbie doll was upstairs in the Hs, and the index card that was left as a bookmark in a 1974 with a message not to move it was responded to in 1994.

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