I think it would always be internationally interesting to be able to access lending data for libraries in any locale. So it may be useful if we could have some property on Wikidata indicating whether or not the library keeps lending records, and if so, how far back they go. For this reason I can also imagine it may be useful to create items for defunct libraries, if the lending archives still exist.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 4:37 PM Frederick Noronha < fredericknoronha@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for that, Nemo. Useful pointers...
Just one query: if there is a tiny library in some village somewhere, would we assume that someone, someday might not be interested in finding out information about it too?
FN
On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 15:24, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
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Nice encouragement, but there are about 14k known "libraries" in Italy, of which over 2500 university libraries (although most of those don't have even one librarian)... https://anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/
Is there some international standard to draw a line somewhere? If not, I suppose Italian contributors will keep working on Wikidata instead, where such information is easier to manage.
Federico
Frederick Noronha, 06/04/19 12:22:
Dear all: Please help to build list of libraries in your part of the
world.
Some links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries
Indian Wikipedians, this could do with some love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_India
This seems impressive to me (but I don't know how many are missing): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Australia
And here's a listing from Nigeria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_Nigeria
Fredericknoronha
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