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class="entry-title">By the Numbers: Literary San Diego</h1><h2>Facts and figures about the libraries and literature of America’s Finest City</h2> <p class="article-header__publishing-info"> <span class="publishing-info__byline"> By <a href="https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/authors/megan-bennett/">Megan Bennett</a> | </span> <span class="publishing-info__date">June 3, 2024</span> </p> </div> <div class="article-container"> <div class="article-body"> <div class="article-body__social-share"><div class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/06/03/by-the-numbers-literary-san-diego/" data-a2a-title="By the Numbers: Literary San Diego"><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Famericanlibrariesmagazine.org%2F2024%2F06%2F03%2Fby-the-numbers-literary-san-diego%2F&linkname=By%20the%20Numbers%3A%20Literary%20San%20Diego" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" 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height="647" src="https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/btn-seuss.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Photo of the bronze Dr. Seuss and Cat in the Hat statue outside Geisel Library, the main library of University of California San Diego" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/btn-seuss.jpg 970w, https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/btn-seuss-300x200.jpg 300w, https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/btn-seuss-200x133.jpg 200w, https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/btn-seuss-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The Dr. Seuss and Cat in the Hat statue outside Geisel Library, the main library of University of California San Diego <span class="credit">Photo: Felix Lipov</span> </figcaption></figure><p><em>The American Library Association’s 2024 Annual Conference and Exhibition will be held June 27–July 2 in San Diego.</em></p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana; color: #ac585e; font-size: 150%;"><strong>4</strong></span><br /> Number of crown-shaped chandeliers designed by author L. Frank Baum for the Hotel del Coronado, located on San Diego Bay. The hotel, where Baum frequently stayed as a guest, is said to have inspired the Emerald City in his famous 1900 novel, <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</em>.</p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana; color: #ac585e; font-size: 150%;"><strong>4,000</strong></span><br /> Age in years of the Babylonian clay tablets in the Hervey Family Rare Book Room at San Diego Public Library’s Central Library. The tablets are impressed with cuneiform, a writing system dating back to ancient Mesopotamia.</p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana; color: #ac585e; font-size: 150%;"><strong>128</strong></span><br /> Number of years that Warwick’s, the country’s oldest continuously family-owned and -operated bookstore, has been open. Four generations have run the store since William T. Warwick opened it in Mankato, Minnesota, in 1896. The shop moved to San Diego’s La Jolla neighborhood in 1939.</p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana; color: #ac585e; font-size: 150%;"><strong>7.5</strong></span><br /> Height in feet of the bronze Cat in the Hat sculpture outside Geisel Library, the main library of University of California San Diego (UCSD). The cat poses with longtime local and prolific author and cartoonist Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. UCSD holds the Dr. Seuss Collection, comprising more than 20,000 items related to Geisel’s work.</p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana; color: #ac585e; font-size: 150%;"><strong>1513</strong></span><br /> Publication year of the oldest book in the rare book collection of the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library. The book is an edition of ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle’s <em>De Natura Animalium</em>.</p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana; color: #ac585e; font-size: 150%;"><strong>10,000</strong></span><br /> Number of vampire-themed comic books available in the J. Gordon Melton Vampire Collection, part of San Diego State University’s Comic Arts Collection. Melton, a renowned religious scholar with a passion for vampire lore, wrote 2021’s <em>The Vampire Almanac.</em></p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana; color: #ac585e; font-size: 150%;"><strong>8,000</strong></span><br /> Number of people who attended the 2023 San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books. 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