We did this in 2010, primarily in order to help me with the process of deciding on items to upgrade to DVD. Stats were for circs since 2004 when we switched our ILS. The results were a bit surprising to me at first -- our highest circulated item to that point was a a VHS copy of Annenberg's CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE, which had circulated 103 times. But then I realized, unlike Deg's situation, our stats *did* include both standard circs and reserve circs, and that item had been used a ton for course reserve. Next highest were also VHS -- AMERICAN TONGUES and a segment of THE STORY OF ENGLISH, again, frequent reserve items.
The top DVDs were all feature films, topped by A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE GODFATHER, PT. 2, and BLADE RUNNER. So do you have more hope for the world now, Gary, with those top three? Forrest Gump was 24th on our list. ;) Susan at Wabash 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.
