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I would imagine the number of books is misleading. WorldCat has many duplicates (a difference among bib records as small as a space or a comma can create another record for the same book) and many have different editions. Ellen Chapman On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:55 AM, MacDonald, Sara <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Dear ARLIS-L, > > A faculty member has asked me how she could go about finding the number of > books and articles written about Picasso. An approximate number would be > fine. > > Searching EBSCOhost with Picasso in the subject retrieves 10,598 articles. > (Today, anyway.) > > A search of WorldCat finds 20,887 books with Picasso as a named person in > the subject. > > Any other ideas? She just wants to toss off a number to make an impression > but would like some research behind it. :-) > > Thank you! > > Sara > ------------------- > Sara J. MacDonald, Public Services Librarian > The University of the Arts - University Libraries & Archives > 320 S Broad St - Philadelphia PA 19102 - USA > http://library.uarts.edu/ http://library.uarts.edu/mobile > [log in to unmask] 215-717-6282 > Like us! http://www.facebook.com/UArtsLibraries > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining > ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative > matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy > Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- |))| Ellen Chapman |((| Hawaii Congressional Papers Collection |))| University of Hawaii at Manoa Library |((| 808-944-7656 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~