As I said on my home page, I am interested in cards from all over the world - especially cards which illustrate the differences between countries - their architecture, their ancient sites, their castles and cathedrals, their capital cities and their way of life. I am also impressed by elegant or interesting bridges - huge slender structures, like the new one between Denmark and Sweden, or ones with an interesting story behind them, like the half bridge in Avignon, France
I also love wild scenery, especially areas which look as though no human has been, and waterfalls.
By profession, I am a librarian, training which helps me to organise my cards, but I am a mere beginner compared to some collectors I have come into contact with who have upwards of 30,000 cards - now that is some library! As a spinoff from my job, which nowadays means I work increasingly with a computer screen, I also collect postcards of libraries - mainly traditional collections in english stately homes or cathedrals, but I am also interested in libraries in other countries - especially their national libraries, but also those in interesting settings or in impressive buildings. Or those which are not conventional libraries at all, like the donkey-driven mobiles in Africa. I am also hunting for any libraries which were paid for by Andrew Carnegie - postcards of these will be especially welcome, but so would a photograph, or any information - do you have a Carnegie library in your home town?
My collection : UK Libraries | US Libraries | Libraries in the rest of the world | National Libraries
Library cards to swap : Multiply