I had certainly been interested since the early 1980s when my wife was a librarian in Cambridge. Occasionally she would have to organize an exhibition and people would want to know things like what was the oldest book and why was it there.
正巧那時候我內人在劍橋圖書館工作，她要籌畫一個展覽，我於是幫助她策劃、準備，弄清楚館中收藏的來龍去脈和被使用的情形。