« Future of the catalog | Main | WorldCat Biographies »

Children's book week

Childrensbookweek In honor of Children's Book Week I did a scan of WorldCat looking at records which had the Audn fixed-field element set to 'j' for Juvenile.  The result is slightly different from the 'OCLC Top 1000' Childrens list, since I only counted holdings for records that had a 'j'.  Works such as Twain's Huckleberry Finn aren't at the top of this list, since many records for Huckleberry Finn don't have the Audn field set to 'j'.  Here's the list from highest held by libraries to lowest:

Mothergoose2 NightbeforeAlice   Andersen WindMadeline Wizard Treasureisland Blackbeauty Winnie

I found 58,000 holdings associated with these Mother Goose's, on down to 15,000 for Winnie-the-Pooh.   One thing I realized compiling this list is that audience can be more closely associated with the expression than the work.  In particular I found Latin translations of Winnie-the-Pooh marked juvenile, which seems questionable, while the work as a whole certainly fits.

--Th

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83459bf2269e200e5508ac7828833

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Children's book week:

Comments

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been saved. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them.

My Photo

June 2009

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
  1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30