{"id":5329,"date":"2018-12-10T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2018-12-10T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:39:07","slug":"how-many-books-are-there-in-bc-library-what-is-the-oldest-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/10\/how-many-books-are-there-in-bc-library-what-is-the-oldest-one\/","title":{"rendered":"How many books are there in BC Library? What is the oldest one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5305\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5305\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-3-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"How many books are there in BC Library? What is the oldest one?\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-3-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How many books are there in BC Library? What is the oldest one?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the latest Factbook, at the end of fiscal year 2017, there were 2,326,205 books available from O&#8217;Neill Library. Defining what a &#8220;book&#8221; is gets kind of tricky (librarians love to nerd out on this stuff), but the oldest printed book in our collection is Jean Gerson\u2019s De Spiritualib[us] Nupciis (On Spiritual Marriage). It has been digitized and is available to read online: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BurnsOldestBook\">bit.ly\/BurnsOldestBook<\/a>. The oldest item we have is a Mesopotamian clay tablet from 2000-3000 BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest Factbook, at the end of fiscal year 2017, there were 2,326,205 books available from O&#8217;Neill Library. Defining what a &#8220;book&#8221; is gets kind of tricky (librarians love to nerd out on this stuff), but the oldest printed book in our collection is Jean Gerson\u2019s De Spiritualib[us] Nupciis (On Spiritual Marriage). It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/10\/how-many-books-are-there-in-bc-library-what-is-the-oldest-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How many books are there in BC Library? What is the oldest one?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,14],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-boston-college","tag-bc-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5362,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}