Sorting Through the Papers, Books, and Memories of an Academic Life.

This article presents information on life after retirement for college teachers. The time will come when one must give up a campus office and decide what to do with the books, papers, files, precious mementos, and other representations of one's professional life. Most of them want to take it home so they could at last satisfy their unfulfilled dreams of reading and writing. Unless one has the luxury of a large home, one should plan to dispose of most of the treasures before one takes the rest home. University librarians receive donations of books from retired professors after the books have been brought home.