Sausage slices and love notes: The improvised bookmarks librarians findThe Vienna central library has a new exhibition drawn from its collection of 8,000 items found over the past 20 years.
“When books are returned, sometimes the objects just fall out,” she said. “I started collecting the objects because the things I found — the photos, notes, prescriptions, a receipt from 1965 — they were just too fascinating to throw away. There were a lot of interesting and touching things that give us a really unique insight into readers’ lives.”
More than two decades after beginning her collection, Bitter enlisted the help of artist and co-curator Sebastian Kraner to design the exhibition. A black-and-white photo of a schoolgirl wearing a backpack is the first artifact visitors see.
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