In preparation for ALA’s 2024 Annual Conference and Exhibition June 27–July 2 in San Diego, read up on some facts and figures about the libraries and literature of America’s Finest City. Learn where to spot chandeliers designed by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, the age of the country’s oldest continuously family-owned and -operated bookstore, the number of vampire-themed comic books in San Diego State University’s Comic Arts Collection, and where to find a bronze Cat in the Hat sculpture.