At first, I searched for Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. 9 records were found, 5 which matched my title. I added the number of libraries worldwide for those 5 libraries and came up with 2,956 owning libraries. I switched to Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher so things would be more straight forward (not multiple records). 1,817 libraries worldwide owned that book. Brookings Public Library was listed at the top, I'm assuming because it is the library closest to me. It was found in their Young Adult collection under Asher, the author's last name. Its call number was YA ASH. Aberdeen - Alexander Mitchell Public Library owned 3 copies and a CD, making it the top library.
The call number/class descriptors were as follows:
LC: PZ7.A8155 (Not sure what this means)
Dewey: Fiction and 813.6 (Literature and rhetoric).
When I clicked on the author's name, it came up with the same book translated into German, Czech, Spanish, and Polish. The only other book that he seems to have written is Going Pro With Logic Pro 9, a book on interactive media.
Subject descriptors were suicide, high schools, schools, and interpersonal relations. When I clicked on each one, it gave me a nice list of other books dealing with those subjects.
Congrats on conquering WorldCat searches. Now you know how to look for books worldwide. You're right, libraries closest are listed first, so SD libraries will be first in alphabetical order (if there are SD libraries). Then it's by region, then by other states in alphabetical order. LC is Library of Congress cataloging, which most universities use. The P's are literature. This is a good resource for finding books and interlibrary loaning them through the State Library. Thanks for your comments.
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