Julie Park was selected to attend From College Library to the Country House, a course sponsored by the Attingham Trust, based in the United Kingdom.

A competitive international program for professionals working in cultural heritage and related fields, the course offered privileged access to several country house libraries in East Anglia and libraries belonging to colleges at the University of Cambridge, as well as lectures and seminars by experts in book history and art and architectural history. Participants, coming from France, Ireland, Malta, Austria, the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom, are distinguished professionals in historic houses, conservation, decorative arts, architecture and architectural history, museums, libraries, and academia. Julie attended Attingham’s flagship summer school program on the architectural and social history of the historic house in Britain and its gardens and landscape setting in 2012 to research her most recent book, My Dark Room. She was asked to give a talk about her research project on the spatial history of the Williamscote Library, now housed at Penn State, an eighteenth-century library from an Oxfordshire country house that was acquired in 1968 by English professor and librarian Charles Mann, who founded what would become Penn State’s Special Collections and served as its first head.