Welcome to Our Athenaeum!

Use this virtual space to manage your physical library and share books with your community irl!

How it works:

1. Make an account
2. Add the books that you own to your library
3. Add your friends to your community
4. Request to borrow books from your friends and accept their requests to borrow your books
5. Meet up in person to make the exchanges and talk about what you're reading

Athenaeum(n.)

1727, "temple dedicated to Athena," from Latinized form of Greek Athenaion "the temple of Athene," in ancient Athens, in which professors taught and actors or poets rehearsed; see Athena. The modern meaning "literary club-room or reading room" is from 1799; the sense of "literary or scientific club" is from 1807. These senses are based on the institutions founded by Hadrian at Rome and elsewhere dedicated to literary and scientific studies.

Athena

Greek goddess of wisdom, skill in the arts, righteous warfare, etc., from Latin Athena, from Greek Athēnē, name of a common Greek goddess, dating to Minoan times, depicted with a snake and protecting the palace. "Like the goddess itself, the name is pre-Greek" [Beekes]. Identified by the Romans with their Minerva.