The Snowy Dayis New York City’s most wanted!
A team of experts at the library determined thatThe Snowy Day, which follows an African American boy named Peter who explores his neighborhood after the first snowfall of the season, had been checked out 485,583 times since the library’s opening in 1895.
The Cat in the Hat.
Interestingly enough, experts noted in their research that children’s librarian Anne Carroll Moore dislikedGoodnight Moonso much when it first came out in 1947 that she refused to carry it in the New York Public Library. It wasn’t until 1972 that the system finally obtained the book, which significantly impacted its numbers when calculating the recent checkout list.
While compiling the first-ever list, the library said a team of researchers worked together and considered a number of key factors.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Charlotte’s Web.
Historic checkout and circulation data for all formats, including e-books, overall trends, current events, popularity, length of time in print, and presence in the library catalog were all taken into consideration when collecting their data and research.
Andrew Medlar, the head of the library’s book-buying operations team and worked on the list, toldThe New York Timesthat the process took more than six months to complete.
“There was a little bit of art to the science of doing this,” he told the outlet. “The idea was to see what has been generally popular out in the world. We wanted to start from the love of books and the love of reading rather than the numbers.”
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The New York City Public Library is one of the largest library systems in the United States and the world, its website states.
There are currently 92 locations throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, that see approximately 16 million visitors annually. Millions more from all over the world use the public library’s resources online.
source: people.com
