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It would be interesting to look into that. Would be funny if it turned out they still had more physical copies of the most popular book than they had digital le
by tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
It would be interesting to look into that. Would be funny if it turned out they still had more physical copies of the most popular book than they had digital lendings - it'd kinda confirm that the right move was to throw out the limits, because the need was there now, and the counting would take months.
Did they publish stats how often their most popular books were borrowed?
- icebraining 6y ago> the counting would take months. Don't libraries know the books they own? That seems unlikely, since they need to know that when they lend them out.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoEach library does, but unless they already all use the same software and have someone who knows it well enough to export the data and they have the time to do it, I suspect it would take a long time to collate the data in a useful form. And that assumes the books are keyed by some kind of unique ID like an ISBN in all libraries, otherwise good luck collating the different spelling/typos of titles. Just reaching out to all the libraries and getting them to submit the data would take a lot of time.