The Top Ten Lists

5 10 2007

lettermanI am the kind of person who likes lists.  Why?

1.  They provide a sense of organization
2.   They are easy to read
3.   And so on….

For those of you who are like me and enjoy a tasty list from time to time, here is a list of library items ranked by how often they have been checked out at the Circulation Desk.  Data goes back to the start of our current library system in 2001.

Most Popular Library Items for Check-Out

  1. Laptop computer (19,267 times)
  2. Laptop computer (17,609)
  3. Study room key (1,698)
  4. Laptop computer (1,368)
  5. Study room key (1,069)
  6. Study room key (664)
  7. Study room key (611)
  8. Study room key (580)
  9. Study room key (511)
  10. Headphones (498)

Okay, not too exciting.  And it proves what we already know: providing laptop computers for students to use in the library has been very popular from the beginning.  What books, however, are the top ten circulators?

Most Popular Library Books for Check-Out

  1. T-Factor Fat Gram Counter (271)
  2. Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World (198)
  3. Secondary Mathematics Instruction (187)
  4. Very Hungry Caterpillar (184)
  5. Where the Wild Things Are (152)
  6. Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day (146)
  7. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (130)
  8. Smoky Night (126)
  9. Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become (123)
  10. Frank the Fish Gets His Wish (118)

Much more interesting and very eclectic.  This represents, I surmise, books that are used as reserve readings for classes and popular children’s books used in lesson planning.  (These children’s books, by the way, are housed in the Curriculum Library on the second floor of the Lally Building.)


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