Some Stats From the 2010-2011 Academic Year

Circulation (Check-outs + Renewals)
31,502

In-Library Usage Count
28,764

Items Lent to Other Libraries
2,779

Items Borrowed from Other Libraries
2,443

Top 25 Most Checked-Out Books (Academic Year) [including reserves]

1. God the Real Superpower: Rethinking Our Role in Missions, by J. Nelson Jennings.
2. A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, by Bill T. Arnold, John H. Choi.
3. Exploring World Mission: Context and Challenges, by Bryant L. Myers.
4. Freedom & Discipleship: Your Church and Your Personal Decisions, by Jerram Barrs, foreword by Graham Cray.
5. The Book of Psalms, by A.F. Kirkpatrick.
6. Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible, by Daniel M. Doriani.
7. Leadership Handbook of Management and Administration, general editor, James D. Berkley.
8. Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer: Spiritual Reality in the Personal Christian Life, edited with introductions by Lane T. Dennis.
9. The Gospel According to John, by D.A. Carson.
10. Luke, by Darrell L. Bock.
11. The Doctrine of God in African Christian Thought: The Holy Trinity, Theological Hermeneutics, and the African Intellectual Culture, by James Henry Owino Kombo.
12. Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934), by J. Nelson Jennings.
13. Genesis, by Gordon J. Wenham.
14. Systematic Theology, by Louis Berkhof.
15. Classical Evangelical Essays in Old Testament Interpretation, edited by Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
16. 1 and 2 Kings, by Iain Provan.
17. Lifespan Development, by Denise Boyd, Helen Bee.
18. Christ-centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, by Bryan Chapell.
19. Putting the Truth to Work: The Theory and Practice of Biblical Application, by Daniel M. Doriani.
20. Career Development Interventions in the 21st Century, by Spencer G. Niles, JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey.
21. Communicating God’s Word in a Complex World: God’s Truth or Hocus Pocus?, by R. Daniel Shaw and Charles E. van Engen.
22. Colossians, Philemon, by Peter T. O’Brien.
23. The New Testament in Antiquity, by Gary M. Burge, Lynn H. Cohick, and Gene L. Green.
24. Dimensions of Multicultural Counseling: A Life Story Approach, by Sara E. Schwarzbaum, Anita Jones Thomas.
25. The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling, by Tracy L. Robinson-Wood.

Top 25 Most Checked-Out Books (Cumulative) [excluding reserves]

1. Luke, by Darrell L. Bock.
2. The Gospel According to John, by D.A. Carson.
3. A New Commentary on Genesis, by Franz Delitzsch, translated by Sophia Taylor.
4. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, by Paul Jouon, translated and revised by T. Muraoka.
5. Hebrews, by William L. Lane.
6. Commentary on the Old Testament in Ten Volumes, by C.F. Keil and F. Delitzsch.
7. Genesis, by Gordon J. Wenham.
8. Matthew, by Donald A. Hagner.
9. The First Epistle of Peter, by Peter H. Davids.
10. Systematic Theology, by Louis Berkhof.
11. Commentaries, by John Calvin, translated by John King.
12. The Book of Deuteronomy, by Peter C. Craigie.
13. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew in Three Volumes, by W.D. Davies and Dale C. Allison.
14. The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text with Introduction, Exposition, and Notes, by William L. Lane.
15. The Gospel According to Matthew, by Leon Morris.
16. Romans, by James D.G. Dunn.
17. The Letter to the Ephesians, by Peter T. O’Brien.
18. Matthew, by D.A. Carson.
19. Trinity Hymnal.
20. John, by George R. Beasley-Murray.
21. Luke, by John Nolland.
22. 1 Peter, by J. Ramsey Michaels.
23. Institutes of the Christian religion, edited by John T. McNeill, translated by Ford Lewis Battles.
24. Let Us Sing: Worshiping God with Our Music, by Lawrence C. Roff.
25. The Message of 1 Peter: The Way of the Cross, by Edmund P. Clowney.

Top 25 Most Heavily Used In-Library Books (Cumulative)

1. ESV Study Bible: English Standard Version.
2. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, by Paul Jouon, T. Muraoka.
3. Commentary on the Old Testament, by C.F. Keil and F. Delitzsch.
4. Genesis, by Gordon J. Wenham.
5. New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis, by Willem A. VanGemeren, general editor.
6. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, by Francis Brown, with the cooperation of S.R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs.
7. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature,  revised and edited by Frederick William Danker.
8. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, edited by G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson.
9. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, edited by G. Johannes Botterweck and Helmer Ringgren, translated by John T. Willis.
10. Williams’ Hebrew Syntax, by Ronald J. Williams, revised and expanded by John C. Beckman.
11. Analytical Key to the Old Testament, by John Joseph Owens.
12. Holy Bible: English Standard Version.
13. A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, by Bill T. Arnold, John H. Choi.
14. Commentaries, by John Calvin, translated by John King.
15. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament, by Daniel B. Wallace.
16. An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, by Bruce K. Waltke and M. O’Connor.
17. Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, by R. Laird Harris, editor, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., associate editor, Bruce K. Waltke, associate editor.
18. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, by Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner.
19. Genesis: A Commentary, by Bruce K. Waltke with Cathi J. Fredricks.
20. The Englishman’s Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament, by George V. Wigram.
21. Deuteronomy, by Christopher J.H. Wright.
22. Genesis, by Kenneth A. Mathews.
23. Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries, translator, T.H.L. Parker ; editors, David W. Torrance, Thomas F. Torrance.
24. Deuteronomy = [Devarim]: The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Translation, by Jeffrey H. Tigay.
25. Exodus, by Douglas K. Stuart.

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