Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Members, Books, Events

The Shakespeare and Company Project makes three datasets available to
download in CSV and JSON formats. The datasets provide information about
lending library members; the books that circulated in the lending library;
and lending library events, including borrows, purchases, memberships, and
renewals. The datasets may be used individually or in combination site
URLs are consistent identifiers across all three. The DOIs for each
dataset are as follows: Members (https://doi.org/10.34770/nsa4-3t76);
Books (https://doi.org/10.34770/079z-h206); Events
(https://doi.org/10.34770/rtbp-kv40). All data is related to the
Shakespeare and Company bookshop and lending library opened and operated
by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1919–1962. For version 1.1 of the Shakespeare
and Company datasets, we augmented and refined our data, and added two new
fields to the events dataset. We added 859 addresses to the members
dataset, seven books and 230 eBook links to the books dataset, and 1,290
events to the events dataset. We also reduced the number of members in the
members dataset from 5726 to 5601 by merging records that belonged to the
same member and removing mistaken records. In all three datasets, we
corrected mistakes—for example, publication dates of books, VIAF links for
members—and added missing dates. The two new fields in the events dataset
provide the duration of borrowing events in days (when possible) and the
source type or types of every subscription and borrowing event: lending
library cards, logbooks, address books. To represent events that have
multiple sources, we made three fields in the events dataset multivalued:
source_citation, source_manifest, source_image. For more specific
information, see change logs included with the individual datasets.