Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.
Commitment to collecting
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![The cover of the carbon typescript of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No One Writes to the Colonel], 1957.](https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/files/2015/10/General-cover-768x1015.jpg)
