OPL's Most Wanted books: Here's why you wait for months

If you decided you wanted to get your hands on an Ottawa Public Library hard copy of the Michelle Obama memoir Becoming in January, your hold joined more than 1,400 others on a four-month wait-list.
“We had a good indication that this was going to be very popular, we had pre-ordered a lot of copies,” said Ann Archer, OPL manager of content services. But they hadn’t anticipated just how ferocious the demand for the title would become.“It is the publishing phenome