+ "We did it from a limited-edition "Short-Title List" printed by the White House Historical Society, using LibraryThing's 700-odd library data sources"
+ The White House 1963 Library contain 1,700 books
Why Did Hey Do It? We'll allow Tim's words to do all the talking here. However, ResourceShelf does offer kudos and congrats on superb thinking by LibraryThing. It was the right idea at precisely the right time.
Tim Spalding concludes:
As fun as it was to do, it's perhaps a shame we don't have similar collections for all the presidents since then. However interesting, it would be a shame if the White House Library forever remained a 1960s relic.
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