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Check out our publications related to library checkout data from the Seattle Public Library.

2025

December

“The Canon in Circulation: Tracking the Reception of Norton Anthology Authors in Library Checkout Data.”
Neel Gupta, Daniella Maor, Karalee Harris, Emily Backstrom, Hongyuan Dong, and Melanie Walsh. Computational Humanities Research (2025): 1510–22. DOI.
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@inproceedings{guptaCanonCirculationTracking2025,
  title = {The {{Canon}} in {{Circulation}}: {{Tracking}} the {{Reception}} of {{Norton Anthology Authors}} in {{Library Checkout Data}}},
  shorttitle = {The {{Canon}} in {{Circulation}}},
  booktitle = {Computational {{Humanities Research}}},
  author = {Gupta, Neel and Maor, Daniella and Harris, Karalee and Backstrom, Emily and Dong, Hongyuan and Walsh, Melanie},
  editor = {Arnold, Taylor and Fantoli, Margherita and Ros, {and} Ruben},
  year = 2025,
  volume = {3},
  pages = {1510--1522},
  doi = {10.63744/P6qPH135jhY2},
  urldate = {2025-12-10},
   url={https://anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0003/the-canon-in-circulation-tracking-reception-of-in/}
}

August

“Seattle Public Library’s Open Checkout Data: What Can It Tell Us About Readers and Book Popularity More Broadly?”
Neel Gupta, David Christensen, and Melanie Walsh.
Journal of Open Humanities Data 11, no. 1 (2025). DOI.
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@article{guptaSeattlePublicLibrarys2025,
  title = {Seattle {{Public Library}}'s {{Open Checkout Data}}: {{What Can It Tell Us About Readers}} and {{Book Popularity More Broadly}}?},
  shorttitle = {Seattle {{Public Library}}'s {{Open Checkout Data}}},
  author = {Gupta, Neel and Christensen, David and Walsh, Melanie},
  year = 2025,
  month = aug,
  journal = {Journal of Open Humanities Data},
  volume = {11},
  number = {1},
  issn = {2059-481X},
  doi = {10.5334/johd.332},
  urldate = {2025-12-10},
  url = {https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.332}
}

2023

“Where is all the book data?”
Melanie Walsh.
Public Books 2025.