Archive for the 'Statistics' Category

Popular Items 2008–09

We recently received a message from a student who was curious about which items in the Library’s collection were the most popular. I ran a report on our system and came up with the following results. These are the items that circulated the most from July 2008 through June 2009, excluding items on reserve and Bibles.

[Note: These circulation statistics are for individual physical items, not bibliographic entities. For example, we have 3 copies of Genesis 1–4 by Collins that circulate, but the 10 circulations listed here came from just one particular copy. Producing this kind of report based on multiple copies being counted together is a convoluted task.]