World Library History
What Washington DC building is the largest library in the United States, holding almost twice as many volumes as the second-largest?
The Library of Congress
A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?
The Polar Express.
True or False: One of the most overdue library books in the world was returned after 122 years.
True.
In 2011 Camden School of Arts lending library in Australia had a first edition of Charles Darwin’s Insectivorous Plants returned to them. The book had been checked out in 1889 and had lain among the book collection of a retired veterinarian before the library stamp was noticed and the book returned, some 122 years late.
True or False:
In 1962, the library moved into the Sodus Township Hall.
True.
Featuring the classic character of Miss Marple, "The Body in the Library" is a detective novel by what British author?
Agatha Christie.
This book title is recorded as the most stolen book from public libraries.
Guinness Book of World Records.
A large portion of what 2001 Yann Martel novel features the title character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?
Life of Pi
True or False: Librarians used to have to learn a specific style of handwriting.
True.
“Library hand” was a specific rounded style of cursive script that was developed to standardize handwriting, and was taught in schools for librarians from the 19th century into the mid-20th century.
This building, in 1939, is where the Sodus Township Library was founded and housed.
The second floor of the Sodus Fruit Exchange.
This famous actor and theatrical producer also wrote plays and sonnets such as "Othello" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
William Shakespeare
Between 1883 and 1929, what Scottish-American titan of the steel industry funded more than 2,500 libraries bearing his name?
Andrew Carnegie
This 1986 novel by Winston Groom was made into a film in 1994. Actor Tom Hanks, plays the iconic main character as the film follows several decades in the life of a slow-witted and kindhearted Alabama man.
Forrest Gump.
True or False: The Imagination Library is a free children's book gifting program started by Shania Twain.
False. Dolly Parton is the correct answer.
This person is the current Board President of the Sodus Township Library.
Erica Santiago
The town of Pepin, Wisconsin is home to a museum honoring what author of the Little House books, most famously "Little House on the Prairie"?
Laura Ingalls Wilder
As of 2020, this is the number of public libraries in the entirety of the United States.
17,454 public libraries.
What series of massively popular books took "Top Prize" as the most commonly banned book by the American Library Association from 2000 to 2009?
Harry Potter
True or False: The superheroine, Wonder Woman works as a librarian during the day.
False. The correct answer is Batgirl.
This year is when the Sodus Township Library moved into its current building, 3776 Naomi Road.
August of 1970.
This author set his tear-jerking 2012 bestseller, "The Fault in Our Stars," in Indianapolis which is also this author's hometown.
John Green
This country is where the oldest known library is located.
The Library of Ashurbanipal, located in Nineveh, Assyria which is now modern day Iraq.
Prolific author Carl Hiaasen wrote more than a dozen humor-inflected novels dealing with crime, environmentalism, and political corruption in his native Florida. In 2002, he made his first foray into young adult fiction with what four-letter owl-centric novel that was named a Newbery Medal honor book?
Hoot.
True or False: the Daniel Decimal System of classification is widely used in libraries today.
False. The correct answer is the DEWEY Decimal System.
When the Sodus Township Library moved into the 3776 Naomi Road location, it housed this many books.
2,600 books.
"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a holiday novel, not nearly as well known as "A Christmas Carol," by what British author?
Charles Dickens