Word: collectionitis
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"Beside the wonderful collection of valuable specimens that is seen by visitors at Peabody museum, the basement of that building is full to overflowing with valuable matter, some arranged and packed away for want of room to exhibit it and a large quantity in boxes just as it is received...
The collection of autographs and manuscripts, although not large is very rich. If you look sharp you will see a small book of Ben Johnson's with this characteristic phrase: Sum Ben Jonsonii. It would take too much space to give even an incomplete list of autographs; here are a...
Of all the libraries in this country that at Columbia College is probably the most complete in all its arrangements for librarian and reader alike. Although very small in number of volumes compared with our own magnificent collection of books stored in Gore Hall, there are many points of excellence...
The system of registry, which makes free use possible, is centred in a desk at the very entrance, in the transept of the great hall. This desk is in easy communication, by means of sliding boxes, with the stack-rooms, in which the body of the collection not needed for...
The University Bulleting for October is out. It contains the official reports of all the Corporation and Overseers' meetings, the accessions to the library, classification of the bulletin, the conclusion of the Bibliography of Ptolemy's Geography, and a continuation of the list of the Kohl collection of ancient maps...