Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
A common thread might be approximate acquisition dates? -Mike -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:09 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos And if there's a logical or common thread in that list, John, I'll be damned! (not excepting the two forlorn documentaries in the group) gary And here's UW Seattle's top 20 circs, multiple copies not combined. THE STORY OF VINH - CHKOUT = 581 SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE - CHKOUT = 487 BIG LEBOWSKI - CHKOUT = 459 MULAN - CHKOUT = 445 RUSHMORE - CHKOUT = 419 CASABLANCA - CHKOUT = 408 HIGH FIDELITY - CHKOUT = 406 ERIN BROCKOVICH - CHKOUT = 401 TWELVE MONKEYS - CHKOUT = 400 TOY STORY 2 - CHKOUT = 393 THE MATRIX - CHKOUT = 381 MOULIN ROUGE - CHKOUT = 380 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL - CHKOUT = 378 EMMA - CHKOUT = 376 ANY GIVEN SUNDAY - CHKOUT = 369 SEX AND THE CITY, SEASON 1. - CHKOUT = 364 COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE - CHKOUT = 364 THE DEER HUNTER - CHKOUT = 358 SLEEPY HOLLOW - CHKOUT = 355 THE FALL OF THE I HOTEL - CHKOUT = 349 - John ___ http://www.lib.washington.edu/media On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Pearson, Jeffrey 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 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. Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself. --Francois Truffaut 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Gary, the only rhyme or reason we have up here is that there is no rhyme or reason up here. I am only surprised that there isn't a Jackie Chan/Jet Li film on the UW list. jhs ghand...@library.berkeley.edu 8/18/2011 8:09 PM And if there's a logical or common thread in that list, John, I'll be damned! (not excepting the two forlorn documentaries in the group) gary And here's UW Seattle's top 20 circs, multiple copies not combined. THE STORY OF VINH - CHKOUT = 581 SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE - CHKOUT = 487 BIG LEBOWSKI - CHKOUT = 459 MULAN - CHKOUT = 445 RUSHMORE - CHKOUT = 419 CASABLANCA - CHKOUT = 408 HIGH FIDELITY - CHKOUT = 406 ERIN BROCKOVICH - CHKOUT = 401 TWELVE MONKEYS - CHKOUT = 400 TOY STORY 2 - CHKOUT = 393 THE MATRIX - CHKOUT = 381 MOULIN ROUGE - CHKOUT = 380 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL - CHKOUT = 378 EMMA - CHKOUT = 376 ANY GIVEN SUNDAY - CHKOUT = 369 SEX AND THE CITY, SEASON 1. - CHKOUT = 364 COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE - CHKOUT = 364 THE DEER HUNTER - CHKOUT = 358 SLEEPY HOLLOW - CHKOUT = 355 THE FALL OF THE I HOTEL - CHKOUT = 349 - John ___ http://www.lib.washington.edu/media On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Pearson, Jeffrey 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 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. Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself. --Francois Truffaut 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
Agreed, Gary. Illogic seems to be the common thread with this list. The 2 documentary bookends are thanks to an often re-occuring class given by a UCB PhD grad! I would like to dig through more lists for our top 20 docs, but that will have to wait. - John ghand...@library.berkeley.edu 8/18/2011 8:09 PM And if there's a logical or common thread in that list, John, I'll be damned! (not excepting the two forlorn documentaries in the group) gary And here's UW Seattle's top 20 circs, multiple copies not combined. THE STORY OF VINH - CHKOUT = 581 SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE - CHKOUT = 487 BIG LEBOWSKI - CHKOUT = 459 MULAN - CHKOUT = 445 RUSHMORE - CHKOUT = 419 CASABLANCA - CHKOUT = 408 HIGH FIDELITY - CHKOUT = 406 ERIN BROCKOVICH - CHKOUT = 401 TWELVE MONKEYS - CHKOUT = 400 TOY STORY 2 - CHKOUT = 393 THE MATRIX - CHKOUT = 381 MOULIN ROUGE - CHKOUT = 380 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL - CHKOUT = 378 EMMA - CHKOUT = 376 ANY GIVEN SUNDAY - CHKOUT = 369 SEX AND THE CITY, SEASON 1. - CHKOUT = 364 COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE - CHKOUT = 364 THE DEER HUNTER - CHKOUT = 358 SLEEPY HOLLOW - CHKOUT = 355 THE FALL OF THE I HOTEL - CHKOUT = 349 - John 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.
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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
OK your students have MUCH better taste then Deg's ( Sorry Deg) On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Susan Albrecht albre...@wabash.edu wrote: 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. -- Jessica Rosner Media Consultant 224-545-3897 (cell) 212-627-1785 (land line) jessicapros...@gmail.com 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
I've used circulation information for the reasons cited by many of you - but also as an outreach tool. We've run contests for patrons as to guess - for example - how many video items circulated in a given academic quarter - and the closest guess wins a couple of movie passes (predictable - but effective prize). Or what is the title that is checked out most often - all correct guesses are entered to win...yes - movie passes - this one I expect to run this fall. This sounds trivial on the face - but it is easy to do - and it encourages greater engagement between our patrons and service desk staff. It has also given me the excuse to announce a winner and shout about the startling circulation statistics to a broader audience including library staff who may not view the dvd/blu-ray/vhs collections on an even keel with other collections. The fact that the collection has exponentially greater circulation than any other in the library (particularly given size) is quite an attention grabber! Hmmm... now how do I work in that circ was up nearly 25% last year over the previous year which was also a record breaker? Thanks, Beth Beth Clausen Northwestern University Library -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ball, James (jmb4aw) Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:54 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos I think this year our highest circulating items were Mad Men discs. Last year it was The Wire. Matt __ Matt Ball Media and Collections Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.edu 434-924-3812 On Aug 17, 2011, at 5:19 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. 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
Doesn't anyone watch Citizen Kane or 8 1/2 anymore? On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Pearson, Jeffrey jwpea...@umich.eduwrote: 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 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
As I was new to media when I joined this library 2 ½ years ago, I asked for reports all the time. At that time, we couldn't separate VHS from DVD, which made it a challenge to weed. So I use it for weeding, starting with VHS tapes (generally donated or acquired en masse from other libraries to get us started some 35+ years ago. Anything that had not circulated at all since we switched to Horizon in 2000 was tossed (but then, we are not Berkeley either...). Now I use these lists to see which VHS tapes are most likely to need replacing with DVD if available. Here's a couple of follow-up questions. My predecessor used to ask instructors how many students were in their classes when sending a video over to show in a class. Then she would check the video out that many times to reflect how many students had watched it. Do others do that, or just count the number of checkouts? And how well do your DVDs and VHS tapes hold up? If something has checked out 413 times, how many times did the film have to be repurchased? How many viewings would it stand up to? We have a DVD copy of Hamlet, for instance, that is 5 years old and has circulated 26 times. It needs replacing because it skips badly. Jennifer Foster Media Librarian Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library 361.570.4195 http://vcuhvlibrary.uhv.edu 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
Doesn't anyone watch Citizen Kane or 8 1/2 anymore? As my now adult children are still prone to exclaim, Ew. Citizen Kane is in black white... Mike Tribby Senior Cataloger Quality Books Inc. The Best of America's Independent Presses mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:47 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos 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
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I'm fairly new to this list and have been lurking a bit until I could chime in with something of value. 8 ½ is actually in our list of top 50 circulating feature films. Our top 10 circulating titles include: Scenes From a Marriage Gallipoli Magnum Force (really?) The Deer Hunter Goya's Ghosts Like Water for Chocolate The Godfather Annie Hall The Untouchables Au Revoir les Enfants Citizen Kane does make our top 50 if we only count single copies. Factoring in multiple copies probably drops it into the top 70. Another interesting tidbit is that after about 15 months on our shelves, The Hangover is firmly ensconced in our top 20. Andrew Dorfman Regis University Library From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:47 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos Doesn't anyone watch Citizen Kane or 8 1/2 anymore? On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Pearson, Jeffrey jwpea...@umich.edumailto: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.edumailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edumailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Albrecht Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:12 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edumailto: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.edumailto: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
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Impressive list. Hey never knock a Dirty Harry film though the original remains the best. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Dorfman, Andrew adorf...@regis.eduwrote: I’m fairly new to this list and have been “lurking” a bit until I could chime in with something of value. 8 ½ is actually in our list of top 50 circulating feature films. Our top 10 circulating titles include: ** ** Scenes From a Marriage Gallipoli Magnum Force (really?) The Deer Hunter Goya’s Ghosts Like Water for Chocolate The Godfather Annie Hall The Untouchables Au Revoir les Enfants ** ** Citizen Kane does make our top 50 if we only count single copies. Factoring in multiple copies probably drops it into the top 70. Another interesting tidbit is that after about 15 months on our shelves, The Hangover is firmly ensconced in our top 20. ** ** Andrew Dorfman Regis University Library ** ** ** ** *From:* videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] *On Behalf Of *Jessica Rosner *Sent:* Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:47 AM *To:* videolib@lists.berkeley.edu *Subject:* Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos ** ** 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
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To answer Jennifer Foster's queries: For us, we never check out a film as many times as there are students in a class when there's a classroom screening. That's a fairly unusual way of approaching at it, I think. Also, for us, if the report shows 413 circs of a title, that would represent circs of the ONE copy. IOW, if an item has worn out and needed to be replaced, the new copy would be cataloged and barcoded separately, so the circ statistics would start anew. So to get what you're talking about, we'd need to add together circs for all formats and copies. For us, that would be the most complicated with 12 Monkeys, which have owned in VHS, *laserdisc* and DVD formats and which has gone missing a number of times. And Jessica, Citizen Kane gets used a ton here still. It's one of the few titles for which we own two copies. Susan at itty bitty Wabash From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Foster, Jennifer Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:50 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos As I was new to media when I joined this library 2 ½ years ago, I asked for reports all the time. At that time, we couldn't separate VHS from DVD, which made it a challenge to weed. So I use it for weeding, starting with VHS tapes (generally donated or acquired en masse from other libraries to get us started some 35+ years ago. Anything that had not circulated at all since we switched to Horizon in 2000 was tossed (but then, we are not Berkeley either...). Now I use these lists to see which VHS tapes are most likely to need replacing with DVD if available. Here's a couple of follow-up questions. My predecessor used to ask instructors how many students were in their classes when sending a video over to show in a class. Then she would check the video out that many times to reflect how many students had watched it. Do others do that, or just count the number of checkouts? And how well do your DVDs and VHS tapes hold up? If something has checked out 413 times, how many times did the film have to be repurchased? How many viewings would it stand up to? We have a DVD copy of Hamlet, for instance, that is 5 years old and has circulated 26 times. It needs replacing because it skips badly. Jennifer Foster Media Librarian Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library 361.570.4195 http://vcuhvlibrary.uhv.edu 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.
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I too am new to this list. I have been lurking and especially appreciate all of the copyright expertise that people are so willing to share. Our top 20 circulating video list is quite different because we are a technical college. Our interpersonal communications course, nursing and allied health, ESL, and safety emphasis is reflected. And the Band Played On is the only feature film in the top 20. HIV educational package. Fish! : catch the energy, release the potential! Personal accountability the QBQ. And the band played on. Business of paradigms. When it's the worst: irate callers. Making a great impression. Fluke 88 automotive meter: self-paced training program. Fabulous fundamentals: Mastering technology. Passion for customers. English for beginners: Russian V. 1 High impact eye safety. HIPAA : privacy compliance. Flight of the buffalo: soaring to excellence, learning to let employees lead. Framing floors stairs. English for beginners: Russian V. 2 Who moved my cheese? High impact fall prevention. Framing walls. Jane Blume Bellingham Technical College From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:39 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos Impressive list. Hey never knock a Dirty Harry film though the original remains the best. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Dorfman, Andrew adorf...@regis.edumailto:adorf...@regis.edu wrote: I'm fairly new to this list and have been lurking a bit until I could chime in with something of value. 8 ½ is actually in our list of top 50 circulating feature films. Our top 10 circulating titles include: Scenes From a Marriage Gallipoli Magnum Force (really?) The Deer Hunter Goya's Ghosts Like Water for Chocolate The Godfather Annie Hall The Untouchables Au Revoir les Enfants Citizen Kane does make our top 50 if we only count single copies. Factoring in multiple copies probably drops it into the top 70. Another interesting tidbit is that after about 15 months on our shelves, The Hangover is firmly ensconced in our top 20. Andrew Dorfman Regis University Library From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edumailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edumailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:47 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edumailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos Doesn't anyone watch Citizen Kane or 8 1/2 anymore? On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Pearson, Jeffrey jwpea...@umich.edumailto: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.edumailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edumailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Albrecht Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:12 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edumailto: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.edumailto: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
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And here's UW Seattle's top 20 circs, multiple copies not combined. THE STORY OF VINH - CHKOUT = 581 SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE - CHKOUT = 487 BIG LEBOWSKI - CHKOUT = 459 MULAN - CHKOUT = 445 RUSHMORE - CHKOUT = 419 CASABLANCA - CHKOUT = 408 HIGH FIDELITY - CHKOUT = 406 ERIN BROCKOVICH - CHKOUT = 401 TWELVE MONKEYS - CHKOUT = 400 TOY STORY 2 - CHKOUT = 393 THE MATRIX - CHKOUT = 381 MOULIN ROUGE - CHKOUT = 380 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL - CHKOUT = 378 EMMA - CHKOUT = 376 ANY GIVEN SUNDAY - CHKOUT = 369 SEX AND THE CITY, SEASON 1. - CHKOUT = 364 COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE - CHKOUT = 364 THE DEER HUNTER - CHKOUT = 358 SLEEPY HOLLOW - CHKOUT = 355 THE FALL OF THE I HOTEL - CHKOUT = 349 - John ___ http://www.lib.washington.edu/media On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Pearson, Jeffrey 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 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.
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And if there's a logical or common thread in that list, John, I'll be damned! (not excepting the two forlorn documentaries in the group) gary And here's UW Seattle's top 20 circs, multiple copies not combined. THE STORY OF VINH - CHKOUT = 581 SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE - CHKOUT = 487 BIG LEBOWSKI - CHKOUT = 459 MULAN - CHKOUT = 445 RUSHMORE - CHKOUT = 419 CASABLANCA - CHKOUT = 408 HIGH FIDELITY - CHKOUT = 406 ERIN BROCKOVICH - CHKOUT = 401 TWELVE MONKEYS - CHKOUT = 400 TOY STORY 2 - CHKOUT = 393 THE MATRIX - CHKOUT = 381 MOULIN ROUGE - CHKOUT = 380 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL - CHKOUT = 378 EMMA - CHKOUT = 376 ANY GIVEN SUNDAY - CHKOUT = 369 SEX AND THE CITY, SEASON 1. - CHKOUT = 364 COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE - CHKOUT = 364 THE DEER HUNTER - CHKOUT = 358 SLEEPY HOLLOW - CHKOUT = 355 THE FALL OF THE I HOTEL - CHKOUT = 349 - John ___ http://www.lib.washington.edu/media On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Pearson, Jeffrey 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 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. Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself. --Francois Truffaut 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
Hi all, This is fun. Here's HKUST's top 25 video circulations. They are all feature films, except for an Eric Clapton video. I think our top circulating documentary is The Gate of Heavenly Peace - Carma Hinton's doc about June Fourth. Our VHS version has circulated 384 times; the DVD that we got a couple of years ago, 38 times. 25. WALLACE GROMIT TOT CHKOUT = 454. 24. SCARFACE TOT CHKOUT = 459. 23. RAIN MAN TOT CHKOUT = 468. 22. BLADE RUNNER TOT CHKOUT = 469. 21. LAST TANGO IN PARIS TOT CHKOUT = 471. 20. MARY POPPINS TOT CHKOUT = 472. 19. ERIC CLAPTON TOT CHKOUT = 476. 18. TANGSHAN DA XIONG = The Big Boss [ a Bruce Lee movie] TOT CHKOUT = 484. 17. LOVE STORY TOT CHKOUT = 507. 16. HONG GAO LIANG = RED SORGHUM TOT CHKOUT = 513. 15. FURONG ZHEN = Hibiscus Town TOT CHKOUT = 522. 14. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS TOT CHKOUT = 523. 13. THE GODFATHER TOT CHKOUT = 537. 12. DEAD POETS SOCIETY TOT CHKOUT = 553. 11. THE SECRET OF NIMH TOT CHKOUT = 570. 10. ANIMAL FARM TOT CHKOUT = 583. 9. LES NUITS FAUVES = SAVAGE NIGHTS TOT CHKOUT = 594. 8. Homme et une femme. = MAN AND A WOMAN [French romantic movie from the 60s] TOT CHKOUT = 597. 7. CHARLOTTE'S WEB TOT CHKOUT = 617. 6. CLOSE MY EYES TOT CHKOUT = 655. 5. SHUSHAN = Zu : warriors from the magic mountain [A Tsui Hark movie] TOT CHKOUT = 655. 4. BAMBI TOT CHKOUT = 657. 3. DUMBO TOT CHKOUT = 763. 2. JING CHA GU SHI = POLICE STORY [a Jackie Chan movie from the 1980s] TOT CHKOUT = 815. 1. SHA FU= THE WOMAN OF WRATH TOT CHKOUT = 982. And if there's a logical or common thread in that list, John, I'll be damned! (not excepting the two forlorn documentaries in the group) gary And here's UW Seattle's top 20 circs, multiple copies not combined. THE STORY OF VINH - CHKOUT = 581 SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE - CHKOUT = 487 BIG LEBOWSKI - CHKOUT = 459 MULAN - CHKOUT = 445 RUSHMORE - CHKOUT = 419 CASABLANCA - CHKOUT = 408 HIGH FIDELITY - CHKOUT = 406 ERIN BROCKOVICH - CHKOUT = 401 TWELVE MONKEYS - CHKOUT = 400 TOY STORY 2 - CHKOUT = 393 THE MATRIX - CHKOUT = 381 MOULIN ROUGE - CHKOUT = 380 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL - CHKOUT = 378 EMMA - CHKOUT = 376 ANY GIVEN SUNDAY - CHKOUT = 369 SEX AND THE CITY, SEASON 1. - CHKOUT = 364 COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE - CHKOUT = 364 THE DEER HUNTER - CHKOUT = 358 SLEEPY HOLLOW - CHKOUT = 355 THE FALL OF THE I HOTEL - CHKOUT = 349 - John ___ http://www.lib.washington.edu/media On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Pearson, Jeffrey 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 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. Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself. --Francois Truffaut 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.
[Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
FO-REST GUP?...there is positively no hope for this generation. gary 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. Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself. --Francois Truffaut 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
We ran these kinds of reports some years ago when I was trying to advocate for more money (and, more importantly, more respect) for film in the academic setting. I think it may also have had to do with getting supporting data for purchasing the FMG package (or going in with ASU on a pilot to do a sort of PDA thing with FMG). At the same time we were doing similar stuff with our print collection and finding things like less than 10% of some of our foreign language titles circulated in their first 5 years on the shelf. 40% to 60% were considered REALLY high numbers for book collections to have circulated in the first 5 years. We found that we didn't own a film title that hadn't circulated at least once. We couldn't say that (not even close) for any of our other collections. I don't remember what the top circulated titles were. mb Michael Brewer Team Leader for Instructional Services University of Arizona Libraries brew...@u.library.arizona.edu -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:15 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
Hi deg, I do this kind of thing. From here would you use this info to PR your collection or get any other information that patrons might find useful? Or PR the titles that are not in the top 250, but are in other 'top lists'.Are you going to publish the top 250 or 100? I agree with Gary Forest Gump! - But really it was made in 1994, and won 6 academy awards, so is it 'this generation'? lorraine Ohio U 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
FOREST GUMP 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. -- Jessica Rosner Media Consultant 224-545-3897 (cell) 212-627-1785 (land line) jessicapros...@gmail.com 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
Requesting video circulation data is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna' get. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jessica Rosner jessicapros...@gmail.comwrote: FOREST GUMP On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Deg Farrelly deg.farre...@asu.eduwrote: 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
Maybe it's the neighborhood. We also see a lot of use on the 'Killing Us Softly' - but far more checkouts on Zoot Suit than Forrest Gump. Brigid Duffy Academic Technology San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132-4200 E-mail: bdu...@sfsu.edu On Aug 17, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Deg Farrelly 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
And a lot of MILK too I bet. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Brigid Duffy bdu...@sfsu.edu wrote: Maybe it's the neighborhood. We also see a lot of use on the 'Killing Us Softly' - but far more checkouts on Zoot Suit than Forrest Gump. Brigid Duffy Academic Technology San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132-4200 E-mail: bdu...@sfsu.edu On Aug 17, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Deg Farrelly 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 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.
Re: [Videolib] Snapshot of highest used videos
I think this year our highest circulating items were Mad Men discs. Last year it was The Wire. Matt __ Matt Ball Media and Collections Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.edu 434-924-3812 On Aug 17, 2011, at 5:19 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.
