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In this part of the citation, it says that this library is "ranked in the top five amongst research libraries in North America." The University of Illinois claims to be the third largest in North America and doesn't mention either Berkeley or Toronto like this article does. It uses these ARL stats as a reference. (I can't find anything on their site that is more recent than 2007-2008). Toronto claims ten million volumes while Illinois claims eleven million. Are the ARL stats out of date? Are we counting other things? If so, shouldn't we use a source like the ARL? If not, then how is something like this resolved? By looking at university websites? How would we resolve conflicting claims?
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-- Antigrandiose ( talk) 05:48, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
The point of the second bullet was not in reference to Toronto or the US/North America, but rather to point out that the first sentence states that Berkeley is the "third largest academic library in the United States" but lists three libraries that are bigger. Sorry for any confusion and/or ambiguity. -- Antigrandiose ( talk) 00:12, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
We need a section about their journals, books, monographs publishing program. Thaks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 18:20, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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In this part of the citation, it says that this library is "ranked in the top five amongst research libraries in North America." The University of Illinois claims to be the third largest in North America and doesn't mention either Berkeley or Toronto like this article does. It uses these ARL stats as a reference. (I can't find anything on their site that is more recent than 2007-2008). Toronto claims ten million volumes while Illinois claims eleven million. Are the ARL stats out of date? Are we counting other things? If so, shouldn't we use a source like the ARL? If not, then how is something like this resolved? By looking at university websites? How would we resolve conflicting claims?
Interesting notes:
-- Antigrandiose ( talk) 05:48, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
The point of the second bullet was not in reference to Toronto or the US/North America, but rather to point out that the first sentence states that Berkeley is the "third largest academic library in the United States" but lists three libraries that are bigger. Sorry for any confusion and/or ambiguity. -- Antigrandiose ( talk) 00:12, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
We need a section about their journals, books, monographs publishing program. Thaks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 18:20, 13 January 2015 (UTC)