Reno Book Christmas Tree Might be Largest Ever

At a time when the fate of both books and libraries seems to hang in the balance, the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center at the University of Nevada Reno has erected a most unconventional tree.Knowledge Center librarian Erin Fisher masterminded the nine-and-a-half foot treat using pre-1950 National Union Catalog books. “The rarely used reference books made an ideal book tree,” says the university, “