Spending time reading and researching in the lofty Carnegie Reading Room of the Port Townsend library one afternoon, Dr. Arendt Speser, a philosopher and director of the Jefferson Clemente Foundation, discovered something unique. “People don’t typically think of a small public library as a research library, but we have two major collections,” Speser said, noting the large maritime research collection at the Port Townsend Library as well as a special Carl Jung collection in which he took particular interest. “The Jung collection is a little aside,” Speser said. “I noticed it as I was doing work in the reading room. I’d known from my aunt that there was a hotbed of Jungian activity in Port Townsend in the late ’80s or so. But what I’ve learned is the entire collection was donated by a community of readers who all enjoyed collectively the works of Carl Jung.” Speser’s aunt, the late Inge Norgaard, who was an artist and longtime Port Townsend resident, was one of those individuals fascinated by the Jungian philosophy on mythology and dreaming. Connecting with his aunt before she passed away, Speser began to read more of the works of Jung, many of which can be found in the Port Townsend library. Speser will present some of his thoughts on the value of reading and research, the works of Jung and his connection to the Port Townsend community during a lecture at 7 p.m. Nov. 29 at the library in the Carnegie Reading Room. “Arendt is a brilliant philosopher,” library director Melody Sky Eisler said. “He spends a lot of time doing research and writing upstairs in our reading room, and wanted to help people have a better understanding of what we have to offer in our collection.” Speser’s lecture will focus on how the library can help people with their research, as well as how the library’s Jung collection has influenced his own research on topics of mythology, healing, revelation and discovery. “In our digital age, it’s good to remember how nice it is to go into a physical library and browse the books and what it means to do that kind of research,” Eisler said. “One of my favorite quotes is from Neil Gaiman, who said, ‘Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.’ ”