TWIWBTB in your local public libraries

[MarieUrsula]

Out of curiosity, I looked at the online card catalogue for books within the Peninsula Library System (the peninsula south of San Francisco, California).

Eight libraries in the Peninsula Library System have a copy of TWIWBTB. Of these, currently 7 are checked out. Our Susan is a popular person in the libraries here!

How about your local library system?

[cac1936]

Out of curiosity, I looked at the online card catalogue for books within the Peninsula Library System (the peninsula south of San Francisco, California).

Eight libraries in the Peninsula Library System have a copy of TWIWBTB. Of these, currently 7 are checked out. Our Susan is a popular person in the libraries here!

How about your local library system?

I'll check and see. Interesing. Thanks, MarieUrsala.

[counic]

Much to my disappointment, my library system (one of the nation's largest) didn't deem her biography worthy of purchase for any of its 23 branches, nor her two albums. It's not even available from our state's e-book or e-audio databases. Granted, there have been major cutbacks in the library's print and media budgets in the past two years, but I used to be a head librarian in this system and I occasionally encountered a wee bit of intellectual snobbery in collection purchase decisions in the past.

[Lu126]

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I donated one to our main library and will be donating another one to a local library. If I'm reading the library catalog correctly, there are 11 copies in my city. 6 are out, and 5 are available. Various libraries in the city have copies of both Susan's CD's and they are very popular. No surprise there![/B][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]

[kat d]

I checked online and noticed several of the libraries in our city have copies of TWIWBTB and also
large print editions.They also have both IDAD and the Gift cds.The Gift was all checked out,but couldnt find
if books were as it wouldnt update status.I live in Ontario Canada.

[cac1936]

Our city only has one copy of the book and one of the CD. I checked central AR and found a few other systems that had copies.

[Hampsong-Ohio]

Last summer I requested that my local public library order The Woman I Was Born To Be, and I asked to be put of the list so I could check it out. I got a call from the library telling me Susan's autobiography was in and ready for me to check out several days before the book was to be officially released!

In the town where I live the main library, mall branch, and the bookmobile all have Susan's book. The main library's copy and the bookmobile's copy are both checked out. There is a reserve-hold on the bookmobile's copy which is the large-print edition.

The county library system where I live has copies of The Woman I Was Born To Be in six of its branches. One of the copies is the book on CD. Five of the six copies are checked out at the present time.

[Little Lulu]

My local library system has five Gift cds, two are currently out. Six IDAD, two are out. Six copies of TWIWBTB, four are out.

[BarbaraG]

It looks like there are only 5 copies in the Chicago library system, all are out but one - in a closed section?? Confused.

[ksdust]

I donated the book to our local library as they didn't have it. now I see it's checked out as it has been every time I've looked since last fall. a neighboring town (sports rival) has the book and it's not checked out. what's wrong with those people!

[MarieUrsula]

Nice sleuthing, fans. Well, we ARE an "investigative bunch."

[Ponylady]

It looks like there are only 5 copies in the Chicago library system, all are out but one - in a closed section?? Confused.

Oh, we need to work on that. And a big welcome, BarbaraG! I'm in North Sub of Chicago, as is Cicichi, so lets contact our local libraries and see what's up with that! Any other Chicago folks quietly visiting here?

[MarieUrsula]

I stopped by a branch of the South San Francisco library this week. In the "new books" section, I found two copies of TWIWBTB ~ which I did not donate! Happy reading, folks.