Will,

There are also the IMLS public library data sets that might be useful.

https://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/data-collection/public-libraries-survey/explore-pls-data

Chad

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018, 9:07 AM Becky Yoose <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello Will,
>
> If you haven't checked it out already, Marshall Breeding's site has a
> section listing public libraries at
> https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/uspublic/. The site doesn't rank
> by
> popularity, but each public library's page has some basic statistics, such
> as service population, collection size, and circulation.
>
> Cheers,
> Becky
>
>
> ------------------
> Becky Yoose
> Library Applications and Systems Manager
> The Seattle Public Library
>
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Will Skora <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I was writing to ask if a list of the most popular public libraries' urls
> > (North American preferably) exists and if so, if it can be shared. I
> don't
> > have a specific metric to define 'most popular' (like # of patrons
> served,
> > items in circulation, etc); instead, I'm just trying to informally
> compare
> > public libraries' websites on a couple characteristics and do this
> without
> > having to find all of their URLs.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Will Skora
> >
> > Web Administrator
> >
> > Cleveland Public Library
> >
> > (https://cpl.org)
> >
> > Cleveland Public Library – The People's University<https://cpl.org/>
> > cpl.org
> > Cleveland Public Library houses the largest chess publication library in
> > the world. It includes any type of chess-related document, manuscript,
> > photograph, object, or ...
> >
> >
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