{"id":404,"date":"2019-05-30T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=404"},"modified":"2020-02-12T20:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T20:27:01","slug":"of-interest-new-oclc-report-on-canadian-presence-in-the-published-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2019\/05\/30\/of-interest-new-oclc-report-on-canadian-presence-in-the-published-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Of interest: new OCLC report on &#8220;Canadian presence in the published record&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi all, this week, you may have heard the visiting colleagues from Library and Archives Canada refer to a new report from the research division at OCLC. The report is entitled &#8220;Maple Leaves: Discovering Canada Through the Published Record&#8221;\u00a0[<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oclc.org%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fresearch%2Fpublications%2F2019%2Foclcresearch-maple-leaves-discovering-canada-through-published-record.pdf&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFPlSGvhDT0Sco8YCM2YfPeFyVeEg\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>\u00a0to pdf].\u00a0The analysis in the report is based on WorldCat holdings data, as of January 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe report offers fascinating statistics, supported by detailed definitions and explanations, including but not limited to:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How many Canadian publications exist (approximately 10.9 million)<\/li><li>Most popular Canadian authors and published works, by library holdings, including comics authors (hint: the #1 English-language author lives in central Alberta)<\/li><li>Most popular Canadian vocalists and albums (hint: Raffi, but not&nbsp;<em>only&nbsp;<\/em>Raffi)<\/li><li>Trends in publishing, such as most published Canadian authors by decade<\/li><li>Presence of Canadian publications in other countries&#8217; libraries, and other languages<\/li><li>Numbers of publications in different indigenous languages<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, this week, you may have heard the visiting colleagues from Library and Archives Canada refer to a new report from the research division at OCLC. The report is entitled &#8220;Maple Leaves: Discovering Canada Through the Published Record&#8221;\u00a0[link\u00a0to pdf].\u00a0The analysis in the report is based on WorldCat holdings data, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}