Val Plumwood Library digital catalogue - now available!

Cataloguing the library (photo credit: Clancy Walker)

Have you ever wondered what was on Val Plumwood’s bedside reading pile? Turns out the stack might have been a couple thousand books high (2,271 to be exact).

Here at Plumwood Inc., we’ve been working away behind the scenes to clean and catalogue Val Plumwood’s impressive collection of weird, wacky, and wonderful publications held at the Plumwood Mountain site. After many years of hard work, we are now delighted to share this digital catalogue with you.

Peruse the Val Plumwood library online or download a CSV file with detailed notes and categories via our Val Plumwood Library page.

In the spirit of conserving Val’s ‘living museum’, we decided to digitally rather than physically organise these publications - leaving the shelves’ found archeological relationships and dis/order largely intact. Should you wish to search the catalogue via different categories — for example, author (‘Val Plumwood’, ‘Alexis Wright’), tags (i.e. genre ‘philosophy’, or theme ‘forestry’), condition (‘excellent’, ‘damaged’), shelf number (‘Shelf 50’) or other features (‘VP notations’, ‘ephemera’) — please use the available CSV file.

A section of the Val Plumwood Library (photo credit: Brian Rapsey)

Thanks to Lauren Burrow for conceptualising this system, Matthew Darmour-Paul for use of his architectural drawing, and to the many people who contributed to the mammoth cataloguing efforts.