October 11 is National Coming Out Day

October 11 marks the anniversary of the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987, and every year since then, it has been celebrated as National Coming Out Day, and October more generally as Coming Out Month. We thought we’d take the opportunity to highlight just a small number of the library’s many LGBTQ-related resources. A shout-out to Bentley PRIDE for reminding us of Coming Out Day, and contributing suggestions!

Our collections include a wealth of books, films, and e-resources. We’ve hand-picked some suggestions for you to start with: just check out our Pinterest board we’re calling “Out in the Stacks.” Never read Alison Bechdel’s award-winning graphic memoir Fun Home, or seen the classic documentary The Celluloid Closet? Check them out, or try some recent acquisitions like It Gets Better, a book of essays stemming from Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project.

Or take a look at the Gender & Sexuality section of our streaming film database, Films on Demand, to see videos ranging from interviews with transgender people to documentaries on LGBTQ people in Latin America and the Arab world.

For even more books, check out the complete list of winners of the Lambda Literary Award, given to books that make a significant contribution to LGBTQ literature and nonfiction.

For more information about the history of National Coming Out Day, take a look at the Human Rights Campaign’s website.

Our Top 10 Most Popular Books, DVDs & Audiobooks for 2011/2012

Once again, it’s time to announce the Bentley Library Top 10!  Each May we query our database to find out which books, audiobooks and DVDs have circulated the most times during the academic year.

This year, it came as no surprise that some of our most circulated books and audiobooks have also been hits at the theater and on TV, including The Hunger Games trilogy, The Help, A Game of Thrones and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.  We’ve also come to expect appearances by authors Michael Lewis and Malcom Gladwell, whose popular works of nonfiction are perennial favorites here at the Bentley Library.  You’ll note that this year our DVD Top 10 is actually a “Top 17”, but we had a number of films tied for the top spots and we didn’t want to leave any of your favorites off the list.  Lastly, we’re really excited about the addition of two new lists – Downloaded eBooks and Downloaded Audiobooks.  We’ve only had our downloadable book service for about a month, but we are already logging some impressive statistics.

Without further adieu, here are the the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2011-2012 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks, Popular DVDs, Downloadable eBooks and Downloadable Audiobooks:

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

  1. THE MARRIAGE PLOT by Jeffrey Eugenides  [check availability]
  2. STATE OF WONDER by Ann Patchett [check availability]
  3. THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern [check availability]
  4. STEVE JOBS by Walter Isaacson [check availability]
  5. MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs [check availability]
  6. A GAME OF THRONES by George R. R. Martin [check availability]
  7. THE BIG SHORT by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  8. THE LEFTOVERS by Tom Perrotta [check availability]
  9. THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett [check availability]
  10. THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks

  1. THE HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay) by Suzanne Collins [check availability]
  2. MULTINATIONAL BUSINESS FINANCE by David K. Eiteman [check availability]
  3. LIAR’S POKER by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  4. THE FACEBOOK EFFECT by David Kirkpatrick [check availability]
  5. OUTLIERS by Malcom Gladwell [check availability]
  6. BOND MARKETS, ANALYSIS AND STRATEGIES by Frank J. Fabozzi [check availability]
  7. AN UNQUIET MIND by Kay Redfield Jamison [check availability]
  8. FREAKONOMICS by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner [check availability]
  9. THE SOCIAL ANIMAL by David Brooks [check availability]
  10. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE by Daniel Goleman [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [CD and Playaway]

  1. BOSSYPANTS by Tina Fey [check availability]
  2. SERIOUSLY – I’M KIDDING by Ellen DeGeneres [check availability]
  3. 11/22/63 by Stephen King [check availability]
  4. THE BIG SHORT by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  5. THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC by Julie Otsuka [check availability]
  6. DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY by P. D. James [check availability]
  7. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
  8. THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett [check availability]
  9. BLINK by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]
  10. BRANDWASHED by Martin Lindstrom [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection

  1. WALL STREET [check availability]
  2. THE SOCIAL NETWORK [check availability]
  3. DEXTER [check availability]
  4. THE WIRE [check availability]
  5. BREAKING BAD [check availability]
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Top 10 Downloaded eBooks
*check availability by logging-in at http://ezp.bentley.edu/OverDrive/bentleyu

  1. CALICO JOE by John Grisham
  2. A GAME OF THRONES by George R. R. Martin
  3. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R. R. Martin
  4. THE DRESSMAKER by Kate Alcott
  5. THE POWER OF HABIT by Charles Duhigg
  6. NAKED by David Sedaris
  7. SONG OF SOLOMON by Toni Morrison
  8. BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS by Katherine Boo
  9. THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC by Julie Otsuka
  10. DEFENDING JACOB by William Landay

Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks
*check availability by logging-in at http://ezp.bentley.edu/OverDrive/bentleyu

  1. THE HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay) by Suzanne Collins
  2. 1984 by George Orwell
  3. CALEB’S CROSSING by Geraldine Brooks
  4. DEFENDING JACOB by William Landay
  5. LITTLE BEE by Chris Cleave
  6. LORDS OF FINANCE by Liaquat Ahamed
  7. THE SHACK by William Paul Young
  8. TOO BIG TO FAIL by Andrew Ross Sorkin
  9. FREAKONOMICS by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  10. HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carnegie