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We’ve gathered statistics on the most used resources at Gleeson and across all campuses. These don’t include our popular laptops (8,259 Mac and 841 PC checkouts) and items on reserve.

Most circulated print books at Gleeson

1) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition)

2) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

AND Great Books of the Western World edited by Mortimer J. Adler

3) S. Bernardi Opera by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

AND Hillbilly Elegy : a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

4) Diccionario Histórico de la Compañía de Jesús : Biográfico-Temático edited by Charles E. O’Neill and Joaquín Ma. Domínguez

5) Undefeated, Untied, and Uninvited : a Documentary of the 1951 University of San Francisco Dons football team by Kristine Setting Clark

AND Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell

AND Citizen : an American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

AND The Codex of Justinian : a New Annotated Translation, with parallel Latin and Greek text based on a translation by Justice Fred H. Blume

Most circulated Popular Collection*

1) Lincoln in the Bardo : a Novel by George Saunders

2) Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

3) I Found You : a Novel by Lisa Jewell

AND Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) by David Sedaris

4) The Best We Could Do : an Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui

AND I Can’t Make This Up : Life Lessons by Kevin Hart with Neil Strauss

AND Hunger : a Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

AND The Late Show by Michael Connelly

AND Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

*Items added to Gleeson Popular Collection in 2017

Most circulated DVDs

1) Valentin

2) The Fillmore

AND Al Otro Lado = To the Other Side

3) Slaying the Dragon Special Edition : Slicing and Dicing Representations of Asian Women in the Media

4) Treasures from American Film Archives : 50 Preserved Films

5) Lessons from the New Workplace

AND The Fall of the I Hotel

AND Sin Nombre

AND Azucar Amarga = Bitter Sugar

AND José Rizal

AND Spirited Away

AND The Hunting Ground

AND Secreto de Sus Ojos = The Secret in Their Eyes

AND A Newsreel History of the Third Reich

Most circulated board games

1) Cards Against Humanity

2) Monopoly : the Classic Edition

3) Jenga

4) Cranium

AND Bocce Pro Set

AND Trio Toss

AND Giant Tumble Tower

5) Pictionary

Most circulated video games

1) Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol Encore (XBox 360)

2) The Walking Dead (XBox 360)

3) Halo : Reach (XBox 360)

3) Tekken 6 (XBox 360)

3) Grand Theft Auto IV (XBox 360)

3) Red Dead Redemption (XBox 360)

3) L.A. Noire (PS3 game)

3) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)

Most accessed databases*

1) Fusion

2) Proquest Ebook Central (previously called ebrary)

3) Cinahl

4) PsycINFO

5) Statista

*Actually for the year 2016, due to the way our systems are set up.

Top search terms in Fusion*

1) globalization

2) climate change

3) high speed trains +/- California

4) emotional intelligence

5) Richard Serra

* October 2017 to January 2018

Most downloaded articles from USF Scholarly Repository

1) Factors that affect the reading comprehension of secondary students with disabilities by Karen L. Sanford

2) Academic ghostwriting and international students by Shulun Zheng and Jie Cheng

3) Improving bedside shift-to-shift nursing report process by Nina Herceg

4) Improving staff responsiveness to patient-initiated call lights by Doshia B. Williams

5) Implemementing ways to reduce catheter-associated urinary infections (CAUTIs) by Maryam Keyhani

Top resources linked from Fusion searches

1) UWIRE Text

2) JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association

3) Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA)

4) States News Service

5) Journal of Nursing Care Quality

Top resources searched in Journal Finder

1) Harvard Business Review

2) Science

3) Case Studies in Sport Management

4) San Francisco Chronicle

5) Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

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