The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 32, August 8, 2004, Article 5

PITTSBURGH LIBRARIES TOUR

  As the "Great Numismatic Libraries of Pittsburgh" tour
  approaches, a timely study reports that "Pittsburgh is the
  third most literate city in the United States behind Minneapolis
  and Seattle, according to a study of reading behavior released
  yesterday.  The city finished sixth last year in the first such
  survey of reading done by the University of Wisconsin-
  Whitewater.

  The other top 10 cities were Madison, Wis., Cincinnati,
  Washington, D.C., Denver, Boston, Portland, Ore., and San
  Francisco.

  Finishing last among the 79 metro areas with populations of
  200,000 or more was El Paso, Texas. That city also was at
  the bottom last year when 64 metro areas were surveyed.

  Helping to boost Pittsburgh's ranking was its fourth-place
  finish in library use, one of five categories devised to chart
  reading activity."

  [The top cities are all well-populated with E-Sylum readers.
  If there were a survey targeting numismatic literary, I wonder
  what city would come out of top?   And what if we extended
  the survey internationally?  Where are the greatest
  concentrations of numismatic bibliophiles? -Editor]

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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