{"id":2933,"date":"2019-04-22T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2021-04-27T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:22:19","slug":"resources-to-encourage-reading-with-the-library-100-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/resources-to-encourage-reading-with-the-library-100-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources to encourage reading with The Library 100 list"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month, OCLC published a great list based on our own original research: The Library 100<\/a>\u2014Top Novels of All Time. It\u2019s a list of the novels that more libraries have on their shelves than any others.<\/p>\n

The research was based on holdings information in WorldCat<\/a>, which lets you search the collections of thousands of libraries around the world. The hard part of the research wasn\u2019t counting the libraries that had a copy \u2026 it was \u201cclustering\u201d lots of variations, editions, and translations of books. That way, a 1964 French translation of Pride and Prejudice<\/em> counts the same as an English version from 2006. The important part isn\u2019t the specific edition or version\u2014it\u2019s the fact that this is a novel that thousands of libraries have decided to keep in their collections.<\/p>\n

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Free resources to help promote novel reading in your library<\/h2>\n
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Photo by Betsy Butler, Knowledge & Issues Strategist, Ohio Public Employees Retirement System<\/p><\/div>\n

One thing we wanted to make sure to include with the list is a way for libraries to use it locally. There\u2019s a librarians\u2019 kit here<\/a>, full of free, downloadable materials. You can see here<\/a> how one librarian used them to \u201cspruce up\u201d her Little Free Library!<\/p>\n

The kit includes<\/a>:<\/p>\n