Bentley Library Top 10 Most Popular Books, DVDs & Audiobooks of 2016/17

Lisa

Bentley Library Top 10Welcome to the 8th annual Bentley Library Top 10! 

At the end of every academic year we query the library’s circulation system to rank the library’s most popular books, audiobooks, DVDs and OverDrive downloadable books based on the number of times they have been borrowed (excluding items placed on reserve for a class). Think of these as the library’s very own “bestseller” lists!

This year you’ll find a handful of titles that were popular across multiple formats. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult,  Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, Today Will be Different by Maria Semple, Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, and The Whistler by John Grisham all ranked on the book, eBook and digital audiobook lists.

John Brooks’s book Business Adventures was published back in 1969, but it just made its first appearance in our Top 10 two years after Bill Gates named it his favorite business book. And making a remarkable fifth appearance on the most circulated books list is Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis! It’s a little unusual to not have any television series place in the Popular DVD rankings (not even Game of Thrones!), but what’s not surprising is that movies based on books scored big.

We hope you enjoy this glimpse into the reading and viewing habits of the Bentley community as much as we do, and that you’ll be inspired to borrow something that appears here. There were many ties in the rankings, so you have even more to choose from.

Browse the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2016-2017 in the categories of Popular Reading, Stacks (regular book collection), Audiobooks, Popular DVDs, OverDrive Downloaded eBooks and OverDrive Downloaded Audiobooks.

 

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

 

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks

  • 1. LIAR’S POKER: RISING THROUGH THE WRECKAGE ON WALL STREET by
  • Michael Lewis [check availability]
  • 2. HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carneige [check availability]
  • 3. (tie) THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR: A BOOK OF PRACTICAL COUNSEL by Benjamin Graham
  • [check availability]
  • 3. (tie) THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL LEARNING: WITH APPLICATIONS IN R by
  • Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie & Robert Tibshirani [check availability]
  • 5. (tie) THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE: RESTORING THE CHARACTER ETHIC by
  • Stephen R. Covey [check availability]
  • 7. (tie) GETTING TO YES by Roger Fisher and William Ury [check availability]
  • 7. (tie) MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS by Carol S. Dweck [check availability]
  • 7. (tie) FAST FOOD NATION: THE DARK SIDE OF THE ALL-AMERICAN MEAL by Eric Schlosser
  • [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) BUSINESS ADVENTURES by John Brooks [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) HILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS by J.D. Vance
  • [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF TIDYING UP by Marie Kondo [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944: THE CLIMACTIC BATTLE OF WORLD WAR II by
  • Stephen E. Ambrose [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs
  • [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) ELON MUSK: TESLA, SPACEX, AND THE QUEST FOR A FANTASTIC FUTURE by
  • Ashlee Vance [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) INTRODUCTORY TIME SERIES WITH R by Paul S.P. Cowpertwait & Andrew V. Metcalfe
  • [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) RECLAIMING CONVERSATION: THE POWER OF TALK IN A DIGITAL AGE by
  • Sherry Turkle [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS by Ted Chiang [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) THE 48 LAWS OF POWER by Robert Greene [check availability]
  • 10. (tie) THE LEAN STARTUP by Eric Ries [check availability]

 

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks [Compact Disc]

 

Top 10 Most Circulated DVDs from the Popular DVD Collection

 

Top 10 Downloaded eBooks [OverDrive]

 

Top 10 Downloaded Audiobooks [OverDrive]

 

View previous Bentley Library Top 10 lists:

Memorial Day Weekend Closing: Saturday 5/27 – Monday 5/29

Lisa

In observance of the Memorial Day holiday, the library will be closed Saturday, May 27 through Monday, May 29, 2017.  The library will reopen at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 30.

For more information about our summer hours, please view the hours calendar. Have a great holiday weekend!

Summer Session Hours: May 22 – August 11

Lisa

The library’s summer session hours are in effect from May 22 – August 11:

Sunday
1:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Monday – Thursday
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Friday
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Saturday
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Hours are subject to change on holidays, holiday weekends and when classes are not being held.  The Deloitte Cafe/Einstein’s has closed for the summer. For more information about the library and help desk hours please view our online hours calendar.

“Out in the Stacks”: Books & DVDs on Display for LGBT Pride Month

Jaimie

Many of you may already know that June is LGBT Pride Month! The month of June was chosen to commemorate the historic Stonewall Riots, which took place in NYC on June 28, 1969. Hundreds of Pride Parades & Marches will soon take place across the globe, including the Boston Pride Parade on June 10th. If you’re interested in marching with the Bentley PRIDE delegation, you can register online here, or contact coordinator Tony Martin at amartin@bentley.edu .

The library is celebrating Pride Month with a display of almost 170 titles related to the LGBTQIA+ community. We chose a mix of fiction (including many graphic novels!), non-fiction, movies, and documentaries to try to provide a wide variety of voices and perspectives. The titles in this display engage with gender and sexual identity in myriad ways – academic or personal, joyous or difficult, sometimes all at once.

Come browse the display in the library lobby – titles will rotate so please ask at the Reference Desk if you’d like to see all the books/movies that are currently available! You can also see the full list of titles in our online catalog. If you see an item you want to check out, hit the “Request It” button to place a hold. Keep an eye on our social media to get recommendations, and to find links to items you can read or watch online!

Special Library Hours: Thursday, May 11 – Sunday, May 21

Lisa

Thursday, May 11 (last day of exams)
close at 6:00 p.m.

Friday, May 12 – Sunday, May 21

Monday – Thursday:
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m

Friday:
8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
(open at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, May 12)

Saturday & Sunday:
CLOSED

Please note that the Deloitte Café/Einstein’s closes for the summer at at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 11.

Library hours will change again on Monday, May 22. For more information about summer hours at the library and help desk please view the online hours calendar.

Resource of the Month: BrowZine

Kimberly

BrowZine is a free web and/or mobile application that allows users to browse, read, and follow academic journals from the Library’s collection. BrowZine allows users to read articles in a format that is optimized for their device. BrowZine is accessible via a Web browser and/or on Android, iOS, and Kindle Fire devices. You can also use this resource to find similar journals for ideas for new paper topics, to find places to publish or to just raise your awareness of what is being discussed in your field.

Users can:

  • Keyword search for journals (current and back issues) by subject, title, or ISSN, or browse via a subject list.
  • Curate their own collections using the My Bookshelf function to save journals for easy browsing
  • Use the My Articles function to save citations/articles for further investigation.

Expanded options for each citation include the ability to export citations to a citation manager such as Endnote or Refworks and the ability to share a link with a colleague or student.

Most of the titles available through BrowZine are available in full text through the current issue, but for a few titles, you may come across an embargo to online access indicated by an orange banner at the top of the journal’s issue.

For an embargoed title that the Bentley Library has in hardcopy, Faculty can use the Library’s Scan on Demand service to request a copy.

For more information about BrowZine: Check out

Getting Started with BrowZine Video

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Resource of the Month provides a very brief introduction to a useful website or Library resource, highlighting key features you should know about. If you would like more information about this resource (or any of the library’s databases), please contact us for research assistance. 

Book Dedications in Appreciation to Our Graduating Students

Lisa

What would we do without our student assistants? They are here when we open the doors at 7:30 a.m. and close at 2:00 a.m. During exams we leave the overnight operation of the library in their trusted hands. We rely on them to help library users, wrestle with temperamental equipment, shelve and retrieve books (over and over and over again), facilitate Interlibrary Loan requests, and assist with the processing of every book and DVD we purchase. There’s so much more we could list, but suffice it to say that the library could not run without them.

It is a Bentley Library tradition to show appreciation to our graduates with a book or film dedication. Each student is invited to select an item that is meaningful to them, which is then affixed with a special bookplate in their name. This year, dedications have been made on behalf of these Class of 2017 graduates:

Adria Clanton-Thuon

Matt Glynn

Brandy Gwin

Analiz Henriquez

Janet Huang

Sully Jimenez

Sam Jung

Grace Litam

Kyla Reslock

Andrew Smith

A display of their selections will be available in the Popular Reading area. You can also view the photo album on Facebook and our Student Employee Dedications Pinterest board.

Congratulations and best wishes to our seniors, and thank you to all of our student employees for your hard work and commitment to the library.

New Arrivals! Books, Audiobooks, DVDs & eBooks Acquired in April

Lisa

Check out the new books, DVDs and audiobooks that were added to the shelves in April! Go to the New Books & DVDs page to browse the new arrivals by subject or format. When you see something you want, click the “Request” button to place a hold on it.

Interested in downloading or streaming ebooks and digital audiobooks? You can use the OverDrive app to download books to your computer or mobile device, or read/listen to books online in your browser via the library’s OverDrive site.  For help using OverDrive, view their Getting Started page or visit the Reference Desk for personal assistance.