misterjta

Hi Richard, thanks for the AMA!

My question is a two-part hypothetical one.

If all of the Bodleian libraries caught fire, and if the whole fire brigade was unable to attend, and it was just you on the scene...

If you could only save a single thing, what's the one object you'd rescue from the inferno? And how would you justify saving that, rather than anything else?

Well I'm glad you've got a proper suppression system, I'd hate for anything to get lost!

(Apart from anything else I was a cataloguer in English Monographs years ago, before my old office got gutted for the Weston!)

I guess what I was really asking was "out of the entire holdings, what's your favourite item?"...

The idea of a librarian action-heroing it out of the Great Gate ahead of a fireball just seemed like a more exciting way to phrase it!