The Old Library of St John's College Cambridge is home to a hugely important collection of printed books manuscripts photographs maps furniture busts paintings & other artefacts the work of writers craftsmen & artists active across more than one thousand years The Library Treasures of St John's College Cambridge offers a lavishly illustrated introduction to the diversity & richness of that collection It demonstrates something particularly important about St John's College Library & about libraries in many other Cambridge Colleges that besides meeting the academic needs of present-day Fellows & students they also care for museum & archival collections of national & international importance the essential primary materials & sources sought after by scholars across the world