I get a VHS and DVD report about once a year - sometimes using different variables. I use it to decide on second copies, streaming title purchases, DVD upgrades, and stuff like that. Our all-time leader had been Titicut Follies for documentaries (Eyes on the Prize next) and Do the Right Thing for features. Since we converted almost all features to home-use for students a few years ago All About My Mother is the new champ - one of our two copies circulated 461 times.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Deg Farrelly <deg.farre...@asu.edu> wrote: > An interesting bit of data (I think) > > A couple weeks ago I found myself wondering, for no apparent reason, what our > most used videos are. So I asked our head of Access Services (Circulation) > to run a list for me. From a list of all the videos in all the locations in > ASU Libraries, she generated a list of the top 250 titles by total > circulation. > > The list is all circulation (minus Reserve use) since we changed to a new > online system 15 years ago. It does not differentiate between video formats. > That could be done but we did not do so in this investigation. > > The resulting list does not include Reserve use because it’s stored elsewhere > in the system and cannot be extracted by title. Titles with multiple copies > held in different libraries are not aggregated into a single count. So > multiple copies of Still Killing Us Softly (and some other titles) appear > twice on the list. > > But the results are interesting even so. > > Of 250 titles, more than half (60+%) are feature films - 151 > > * The most borrowed title is Still Killing us Softly (419 circs if you > aggregate the copies, 218 for one copy) > * The most borrowed Feature Film: Forest Gump (310) > * The lowest circ of the top 250 titles is 95 uses. > > Anyone else run data like this? > > deg farrelly > Arizona State University > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, > preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and > related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective > working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication > between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and > distributors. > -- Chris Lewis Media Librarian American University Library 202.885.3257 For latest Media Services News visit our blog at http://aulibmedia.blogspot.com or on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/American-University-Library-Media-Services/132559226823103 even Twitter http://twitter.com/aulibmedia Please think twice before printing this e-mail. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
