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Most Searched For

Each month (ish) we check to see which library items are the most-reserved, most in demand (Most Wanted). We also keep an eye on which catalogue items are the most searched for, and the two sort of match up! Here’s a list of the top 10 young adult Easyfind catalogue searches  from June:

  1. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
  2. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
  3. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
  4. Naruto #56, Masashi Kishimoto
  5. Matched, Ally Condie
  6. Divergent, Veronica Roth
  7. Naruto #55, Masashi Kishimoto
  8. Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction
  9. City of Lost Souls, Cassandra Clare
  10. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

Spelling things correctly increases the chance of getting the results you want*: here are some words and names that sent people on wild goose chases – choclate, tradgedy, Stephanie Meyer (our old friend), Selean Gomez, cognative.

* Although Easyfind does helpfully suggest spelling alternatives for you!

What people are looking for

Here’s a Top 10 list of the most popular searches on the library’s Easyfind catalogue in January 2012, followed by some examples of “when good searches go wrong” (don’t try those at home).

Top 10 Easyfind Searches

  1. the hunger games
  2. hunger games
  3. harry potter
  4. tintin
  5. cherub
  6. downton abbey
  7. diary of a wimpy kid
  8. game of thrones
  9. geronimo stilton
  10. road code

Other interesting popular searches include: Eragon, Glee, Robert Muchamore, Cassandra Clare, Naruto, and building android apps.

Strays, Orphans and Waifs 🙁

  1. downtown abbey
  2. dairy of a wimpy kid
  3. the book theif
  4. kattyperry
  5. confessions of gerogia nicholson
  6. business inteligence
  7. blood promsie
  8. roald dahi
  9. fittle princesses fittle princsses fittl princsses
  10. the weeknd

<3 typos

Maxed out your reserves on your library card?

Do you often find yourself juggling your ten reserves? If ten’s not enough to keep track of the things you want to read then My Discoveries on the Easyfind catalogue may be the way to go.

Once you’ve got a My Discoveries login (have a look at this tutorial to find out how to create one), you can create lists (“To Read”, or “For School” for example), and add things to those lists, referring back to them when you’re out of things to read. A list looks a little something like this:

mydiscoverieslist

Selecting an item from the list takes you to the catalogue record, and from there you can reserve it. Pretty easy!

To find out more, have a look a the Wish Lists tutorial here.