Dear Librarians, I'm hoping some of you can help me find some answers. I'm working on a project that requires me to determine the popularity of certain children's books in the U.S. I can find sales figures in various places, but what I am very interested in is library circulation and borrowing statistics. I'm guessing that most libraries do not keep track of how much a book is checked out, but perhaps they do. Ideally, I'd like to discover how much these books circulate not just currently but how often they were checked out over the last fifty years. These are books that would be in most synagogue and day school libraries. Does anyone have advice as to how I could obtain this information? Would any library have these kinds of records? Should I contact individual libraries all over the country or is there some place that collects this information, however sketchily? Finally, if it turns out the only way I can find out this information is by polling individual librarians, are there those of you who would be willing to be polled by me?
Thank you very much for any help you can give, and I apologize if these questions seem naive to you. Sincerely, June Cummins ________________________________________ June Cummins, Assistant Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
