The chair is one of the writer's many belongings being auctioned on November ... on sale feature a bookplate that reads “From the library of Joan Didion.” Blank notebooks owned by Didion.

Library staff had proposed requiring ... Housel said the idea of limiting belongings to those that fit under a chair gives an estimate what size items are allowed. She showed a plastic containers ...

big boxes or bulky bags into the library. Under the rule, a visitor's belongings must fit comfortably under his or her chair and measure no larger than 18 inches long by 16 inches wide by 10 ...