November 15, 2004

Top 1000 Books Owned by Libraries

Via Resource Shelf comes the perfect way to procrastinate doing my collection development paper, OCLC's list of the Top 1000 Titles in Worldcat, the works most widely held by libraries (52,000 libraries in 95 countries around the globe.)

There are some great factoids about the books on the list.

You can download the whole list in case you want "to check off those you own or ponder the popularity patterns" but it warns "Careful! The list can become addictive." and I have no doubt that it could be...

Posted by Emily at November 15, 2004 04:54 PM
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