Doesn't anyone watch Citizen Kane or 8 1/2 anymore? On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Pearson, Jeffrey <jwpea...@umich.edu>wrote:
> OK, here is our top 20. Multiple copies not combined, which accounts for > Amelie at both 4 and 14 (total 531 circs). Forrest Gump came in at position > 265, with a still respectable 166 circs... > > The prestige > Requiem for a dream > The Royal Tenenbaums > Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain > The lion king > Memento > American psycho > Good Will Hunting > Aladdin > The Shawshank redemption > The usual suspects > Rushmore > Wedding crashers > Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain > Anchorman > The departed > The wire. Season one, disc 1 > City of God > Mulholland Dr. > > - Jeff P. > U of Michigan > > -----Original Message----- > From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto: > videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Albrecht > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:12 AM > To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu > Subject: Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos > > 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. > 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. > -- Jessica Rosner Media Consultant 224-545-3897 (cell) 212-627-1785 (land line) jessicapros...@gmail.com
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