I've noticed something about the library's movies. Certain titles circulate like crazy for years without being damaged, lost, or stolen. How crazy, you ask? Like one copy of Sabrina added in 2003 that has circ'd 161 times and 22 times last year! Or Being There, which might have the all-time record at 171 total checkouts. And it's not just classics. There's a copy of Memento that has 115 checkouts. So maybe movies aren't being stolen quite as often as we think.
What books are getting this many circulations in a lifetime? It turns out, not many. In a sample of 400 items in the catalog that have over 150 total checkouts, only 17 items are books. I'm sure many books are just as popular or more popular than movies, but a book may actually be more fragile than a disc, despite the perception that DVD's don't last.
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Ooh, nice stats! That'll give me something to tell people who complain about the scratched ones...
ReplyDeleteInteresting, I never would have known.
ReplyDeleteOr ... there may be more copies of the books ...
ReplyDeleteThose are interesting stats - good that we can get them and put them to use!
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ReplyDeleteWhoops, typo.
ReplyDeleteMore copies of books and more overall selection of books has a lot to do with it, but maybe this indicates that the DVD budget could use a little more of the pie?