What do librarians really want?

A fascinating look at what librarians really buy. The Online Computer Library Center did a poll of all of its members, of all of its English-speaking libraries world wide, searching through their catalogs, and came up with a list of the most popular books, the ones that most libraries had. The census came in first, the Bible second. "Garfield" came before the Baghavad Gita, Doonsebury before War and Peace, Origin of the Species (115) just before The Far Side (118), and although the Lord of the Rings comes in tenth and there are nominal SF elements early on (The Little Prince, Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dianetics for example), the first piece of modern SF is Dune at 708.

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