New From OCLC Research: The Top 10 Most Widely Held Love Stories in Libraries (Books and Movies)
To help celebrate Valentines Day, JD Shipengrover and Diane Vizine-Goetz from OCLC Research used WorldCat holdings to generate two “lovely” lists:
1. Top 10 Most Widely Held Love Stories in Libraries (Books)
2. Top 10 Most Widely Held Love Stories in Libraries (Movies)
Click Here To Review Both Lists
OCLC points out that these lists were generated today (February 13, 2014) and are, “based on the number of OCLC member libraries that own at least one copy of the given book or movie (holdings). The Love Stories genre was used to find top books and the Romances Films genre was used to determine top movies.”
Finally, OCLC’s Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist, Lorcan Dempsey offers a bit more about how these lists were constructed on his blog.
We love lists around here and hope we see more of them from OCLC and other data providers.
More Lists/Rankings Using WorldCat Data From OCLC’s Roy Tennant
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.