tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post6120385687289234585..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Fix This Stat, Stat!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-63101078212879353342011-08-04T14:47:46.344-05:002011-08-04T14:47:46.344-05:00The McConnell Center seems to have a staff of two,...The <a href="http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/SLIS/mcconnellcenter/" rel="nofollow">McConnell Center</a> seems to have a staff of two, so I doubt it has the resources to count and categorize every children’s book published in the country when the industry can’t even manage that.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/" rel="nofollow">Cooperative Children's Book Center</a> at the University of Wisconsin issues annual statistics about the authorship of all the books it receives for review. Even if that's a reasonable cross-section of all books for young readers published in a year, however, it's almost certainly not <i>every</i> book published.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-52862907077187958312011-08-04T10:25:55.750-05:002011-08-04T10:25:55.750-05:00Hmmm... I wonder if the McConnell Center would be ...Hmmm... I wonder if the McConnell Center would be a resource for at least a decent guess on how many new children's and YA books are pubbed in a given year: <br /><br />http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/SLIS/mcconnellcenter/Gwendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05774768214058868450noreply@blogger.com