What has the response been to the HAPLR Ratings?
Overwhelming would be a good description to the response to the first edition. The web site (HAPLR-Index.com) averages about 1,000 unique annual visitors per month. The visitors are from all over the globe, but primarily from the U.S. of course. Press coverage has also been excellent. In the last several years, scores and scores of newspapers covered the index with feature or front-page coverage about their local librarys rankings.
Overwhelming would be a good description to the response to the first edition. The web site (HAPLR-Index.com) averages about 1,000 unique annual visitors per month. The visitors are from all over the globe, but primarily from the U.S. of course. Press coverage has also been excellent. Over the years, hundreds of newspapers covered the index with feature or front-page coverage about their local librarys rankings.
