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Changing the Way a Health Sciences Library Thinks About Popular Reading Collections Marlena Barber, MLIS • Megan Inman, MLIS • William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library • A popular reading collection containing health sciences related leisure reading titles was created in July of 2011 at William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library. • The library set out to determine how the new collection was utilized through the analysis of the books’ circulation statistics and a review of the collection’s cost-to-benefit ratio. • In-house uses and renewals were not included in the data collection. • Forty reports were run, assessing the Popular Reading collection in multiple areas. Top checkouts over data collection period Total number of checkouts each fiscal year Time of year for most frequent checkouts Total number of checkouts: 571 Total cost of the collection: $2718.54* FY 11-12 247 FY 12-13 FY 13-14 50 100 150 200 250 146 178 $445.74 $481.65 $1791.14 FY 11-12 FY 12-13 FY 13-14 *Cost of annual subscription to Prevention ($27.97/year) and Health ($23.97/yr) magazines not included in total cost. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun / by Gretchen Rublin. Cutting for Stone : A Novel / by Abraham Verghese Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex / by Mary Roach Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife / by Peggy Vincent Year of Wonders : A Novel of the Plague / by Geraldine Brooks The House of God / by Samuel Shem The Deadly Dinner Party & Other Medical Detective Stories / by Jonathan A. Edlow. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right / by Atul Gawande The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals / by Michael Pollan. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales / by Oliver Sacks Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's / by John Elder Robison Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--The Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction / by Jena Pincott. Moloka'i / by Alan Brennert • The Popular Reading Collection had the highest amount of checkouts in FY 2011-2012. • The month of July had the highest number of checkouts for 2 fiscal year periods. • The cost per checkout for the collection is $4.76. • Circulation statistics were analyzed in multiple areas to establish the role that this book type has within the overall collection. • Reports were compiled using the SirsiDynix Symphony ILS examining the fiscal years from 2011 to June 2014 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 8

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Changing the Way a Health Sciences LibraryThinks About Popular Reading Collections

Marlena Barber, MLIS • Megan Inman, MLIS • William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library

• A popular reading collection containing health sciences related leisure reading titles was created in July of 2011 at William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library.

• The library set out to determine how the new collection was utilized through the analysis of the books’ circulation statistics and a review of the collection’s cost-to-benefit ratio.

• In-house uses and renewals were not included in the data collection.

• Forty reports were run, assessing the Popular Reading collection in multiple areas.

Top checkouts over data collection period

Total number of checkouts each fiscal year Time of year for most frequent checkouts

Total number of checkouts: 571

Total cost of the collection: $2718.54*

FY 11-12

247

FY 12-13 FY 13-14

100

150

200

250

146

178

$445.74

$481.65

$1791.14

FY 11-12 FY 12-13 FY 13-14

*Cost of annual subscription to Prevention ($27.97/year) and Health ($23.97/yr) magazines not included in total cost.

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun / by Gretchen Rublin.

Cutting for Stone : A Novel / by Abraham Verghese

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex / by Mary Roach

Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife / by Peggy Vincent

Year of Wonders : A Novel of the Plague / by Geraldine Brooks

The House of God / by Samuel Shem

The Deadly Dinner Party & Other Medical Detective Stories / by Jonathan A. Edlow.

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right / by Atul Gawande

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals / by Michael Pollan.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales / by Oliver Sacks

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's / by John Elder Robison

Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--The Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction / by Jena Pincott.

Moloka'i / by Alan Brennert

• The Popular Reading Collection had the highest amount of checkouts in FY 2011-2012. • The month of July had the highest number of checkouts for 2 fiscal year periods. • The cost per checkout for the collection is $4.76.

• Circulation statistics were analyzed in multiple areas to establish the role that this book type has within the overall collection.

• Reports were compiled using the SirsiDynix Symphony ILS examining the fiscal years from 2011 to June 2014

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