[PW] Library Growth Trends

[Bob Boyce]

Michael--
 For smaller libraries, I would suggest individual library histories. Also, state library histories might prove useful. These might provide a healthy corrective to trends in the largest libraries.
Bob Boyce
Reference Department, Lincoln NE City Libraries
r.boyce at LincolnLibraries.org



-----Original Message-----
From: "Michael Hart" hart at pglaf.org
Sent 1/7/2008 11:10:37 AM
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Subject: [PW] Library Growth Trends

Library Growth Trends Throughout History
I am interested in the history of libraries and their growth,
but I realize that other than for the world's largest several
libraries, data on the size of their holdings over a century,
or even more, might not be all that easily available.
In pursuit of such information, I am collecting up a hundred-
year stack of alamanacs, etc., that usually list the largest,
at least in one country, libraries, but I would love to see a
similar listing from other sources, other countries, etc.
If you have any idea of various sources where I might find an
assortment of such data, however incomplete, please tell me.
I am hoping there just might be a few people of like interest
that we might be able to locate enough data for extrapolating
the missing data and making some possible projections.
Thanks!!!
Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg
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