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The Yellow Books, 1887 . Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 18 May 2016.
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“Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in
circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
In the library, "circulation" means a lot of things. What's sometimes called the "library card desk" is also known as "circulation". When we look at a book's record, we count how many times it has checked out as its "circs". The library's collection floats (items checked out at one branch and returned at another stay at the branch at which they are returned), but its items circulate.
Some surprises for us on on our top circulating biography list! Many are new, but there are some that have been out quite a while. Keep in mind when you peruse this list that some books written about specific people are not shelved in the Biography section (i.e., not filed under Biography and the subject's last name) - for example, a new biography called Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is filed in the 800s (Literature, in Dewey Decimal Classification); Bruce Springsteen's memoir, Born to Run, is in the 700s (Arts & Recreation); and a biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman, is filed in the 300s (Social Sciences).
Top
Circulating Biography
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1.
Prince Charles by Sally
Bedell Smith
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2. Al
Franken by Al Franken
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3.
The Secrets of My Life by Caitlyn Jenner
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4. The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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5. Coach
Wooden and Me by Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar
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6. Settle
For More by Megyn Kelly
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7. Teacher
Man by Frank McCourt
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8. Grace
Notes by Katey Sagal
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9. Cravings
by Judy Collins
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10. Charlton Heston by Marc Eliot
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11. Bossypants by Tina Fey
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12. Black Lotus by Sil Lai Abrams
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13. No Life For a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleaveland
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14. A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
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15. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
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16. Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
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17. Are You Anybody? by Jeffrey Tambor
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18.
Portraits of Courage by George W. Bush
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19. Ernest Hemingway by Mary V. Dearborn
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20. Being a Dad Is Weird by Ben Falcone
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21. Richard Nixon by John A. Farrell
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22. Dig If You Will the Picture by Ben Greenman
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23. The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester
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24 Elizabeth
Bishop by Megan Marshall
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25. Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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What's a good biography you've read recently? Did you find one as riveting as Salvador Dalí seemed to find his own (below)?
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Salvador Dali reading his biography, 6 May, 1959. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/102_533903/1/102_533903/cite. Accessed 4 Aug 2017. |
