Top Tens of 2014: Fun Library Facts

Twin Cities Library likes to reflect on the past year by collecting some silly, serious, or just generally odd statistics for your reading pleasure. Below are a selection of our favorite bits of data, courtesy of Google Analytics and our library’s circulation system, Aleph.

Website Stats
We had online visitors from all 50 states and 171 countries this year. Where did all these people come from?

2014 Top Ten Countries with Visitors to our Website (Besides the US)

1. United Kingdom (Queen Elizabeth? Is that you?)
2. India
3. Philippines
4. Pakistan
5. Australia
6. Canada
7. Malaysia
8. Kenya (Saint Mary's University's Christ the Teacher Institute for Education and Maryknoll Institute of African Studies are located in Nairobi, Kenya.)
9. Jamaica (Saint Mary's University has a partnership with the Catholic College of Mandeville located in Jamaica.)
10. South Africa

SuperSearch Stats
We had 196,368 unique searches in SuperSearch between 1/1/14 and 12/10/14. There were definitely some repeated searches, but overall, there were 167,204 unique search queries put into SuperSearch. The average time spent in SuperSearch? 10 minutes and 37 seconds.

2014 Top Ten Searches
Search articles, books, and more all at once... (this is the generic text in the search box...it was searched over 1,300 times.)

1. supersearch
2. dogs (several of our librarians use this word as a sample search when testing things in SuperSearch.)
3. leadership
4. writing center
5. cats (the rest of the librarians use this word as their sample search. Guess we have more dog lovers than cat lovers in the library. A shame.)
6. autism
7. project management
8. ayahuasca
9. narrative therapy

Circulation Stats
Our circulation system has been kept busy this year, with 3,543 checkouts of 1,925 unique materials from our library – including our collections of books, videos and DVDs, and assessment tests. Even more popular was out collection of eBooks, which are available online for all students.

Most Popular Books & Videos

1. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. (34 loans)
2. Three approaches to psychotherapy [video]. (25 loans)
3. Childhood [video]. (24 loans)
4. The world of abnormal psychology [video]. (16 loans)
5. Couples counseling [video]. (12 loans)
6. The secret life of the brain [video]. (11 loans)
7. Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. (11 loans)
8. Handbook of psychological assessment. (10 loans)
9. Axis: journal of Lasallian higher education. (9 loans)
10. The neuroscience of human relationships. (9 loans)

Most Popular Assessment Tests

1. Family Environment Scale manual: development, applications, research. (32 loans)
2. Psychodiagnostik: Tafeln [a.k.a.: the Rorschach test]. (29 loans)
3. BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory. (28 loans)
4. Thematic Apperception Test. (21 loans)
5. CPI manual: California Psychological Inventory. (20 loans)
6. BAI, Beck anxiety inventory. (16 loans)
7. BASC 2: Behavior assessment system for children. (14 loans)
8. House-tree-person drawings: an illustrated diagnostic handbook. (13 loans)
9. MMPI-2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2. (13 loans)
10. PRQ: parenting relationship questionnaire manual. (12 loans)

Most Popular eBooks

1. Differentiated literacy coaching. (157 clicks)
2. Emotional intelligence for project managers. (135 clicks)
3. How to manage conflict in the organization. (89 clicks)
4. Handbook of lifespan development. (65 clicks)
5. Leaching change. (61 clicks)
6. The essential guide to employee engagement. (38 clicks)
7. Understanding by design. (37 clicks)
8. Personality, stress, and coping. (36 clicks)
9. Spirituality, values, and mental health. (36 clicks)
10. Marriage and family therapy: A practice-oriented approach. (31 clicks)

Spot the (Website) Differences

Waiting for the bus? Bored? Need to entertain a child? Great! Spot the differences between our old and new library website.

Select the image below to compare the old version of the library website from 4:00pm, Wednesday, and the new version of the library website from 4:01pm, Wednesday. Bonus points if you can spot the pun trifecta.

We're all ears for your feedback. Contact us with the good, the bad, and the ugly!

Top Tens of 2013: Amusing Library Statistics

Twin Cities Library likes to reflect upon the past year by finding data like Weirdest Search Terms that Led You to Us. Enjoy.

Below are a selection of our favorite tongue-in-cheek and more useful statistics, courtesy of Google Analytics and our library system Aleph.

2013 Top Ten Weirdest (or Awesomely Misspelled) Search Terms that Landed Someone on our Website

1. help
2. centralize sticky notes
3. kualitative and kuantitative research
4. laptop chairs in mn
5. quntitative research
6. smumn blackbiarf  (I like to imagine this is a type of disease that causes retching)
7. "controlled vocabulary" city of  (oooh I'd move there in a heartbeat!)
8. ebsco sorry this ebook is in use
9. blind date with a book umn
10. www.popularmagz.com

2013 Top Ten Countries with Visitors to our Website (Besides the US)

1. United Kingdom
2. India
3. Philippines
4. Pakistan
5. Malaysia
6. Canada
7. Jamaica (Saint Mary's University has a partnership with the Catholic College of Mandeville located in Jamaica)
8. Kenya (Saint Mary's University's Christ the Teacher Institute for Education and Maryknoll Institute of African Studies are located in Nairobi, Kenya)
9. Australia
10. South Africa

2013 Top 13 Most Checked Out Titles
In 2013 we acquired 676 new items - and those are only physical items like books, DVDs, dissertations, and assessment tests. We brought you thousands of new items if you count the journal articles we got access to!

1. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. THE BIG WINNER with 9 loans (a lot, considering our loan period is 60 days). The APA came out with the much anticipated  fifth edition of their seminal, and sometimes controversial, manual.
2. Business law and the legal environment (8)
3. The child psychotherapy treatment planner (7)
4. Three approaches to psychotherapy, Strupp - DVD (7)
5. Three approaches to psychotherapy, Meichenbaum - DVD (6)
6. The complete adult psychotherapy treatment planner (6)
7. Developmental psychopathology: From infancy through adolescence (5)
8. Transformational leadership styles of laboratory medical directors - dissertation (4)
9. Lean in: Women, work, and the will to lead
10. The nearly departed: Minnesota ghost stories and legends
11. BIA, Beck Anxiety Manual - assessment test (4)
12. The mind traveller, Oliver Sacks - DVD (4)
13. Factors contributing to the exits from the superintendency in Minnesota - dissertation (4)

2013 Top Ten Mobile Devices Used to Access our Website

Mobile isn't king though - the traditional desktop computer still is. 92% of you accessed our website using a desktop computer. 4.4% accessed us from a phone, and 3.6% access us from a tablet. It'll be interesting to see if these numbers shift in the future. Check back in a year!

1. Apple iPad
2. Apple iPhone
3. Apple iPod
4. T-Mobile G2 Touch HTC Sapphire
5. Samsung Galaxy SIII
6. Samsung Galaxy SII
7. Motorola Droid Razr 4G
8. Samsung Galaxy S IV
9. Google Nexus 10
10. Opera Mini for S60

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Remember the days before SuperSearch? We don't like to think about that dark period, either. SuperSearch launched on May 11, 2013, and changed the way you (and we) do academic research. In early September we began keep statistics on SuperSearch, some of which are Top Ten worthy.

2013 Top Ten Search Terms/Phrases Used in SuperSearch

1. Search articles, books, and more all at once....  The big winner with 702 searches!! (This is the generic filler text in the SuperSearch box...y'all must be hitting search first! I do that, too.)
2. autism
3. dogs (LOL, this is the text Rachel always types in when she needs to test something or do a sample search. HER favorite term showed up in the top ten, the rest of ours didn't. Hmph.)
4. strong interest inventory
5. autism and education
6. MBTI
7. stroke
8. ACOs (affordable care organizations)
9. apa
10. leadership

New Library Website Launches

Go on, feast your eyes. Chances are you’re reading this paragraph in the blog feed embedded in our new website. Lovely isn't it?

Our new library website is easy to use, requires fewer clicks, and gives you instant access to SuperSearch.
Take a short video tour, and then blast off into awesome.

Let us know what you think of the new site - feedback is most definitely welcome. 

Top Tens of 2012: Internet, Memes, and More

In 2012, a few librarian-related memes came out. It makes sense, really. The Internet is the home of cat memes and librarians gravitate toward cats at parties, so it was only a matter of time before the two morphed into one. Scroll to the bottom of the page to gaze at the popular Ryan Gosling + libraries meme.

But first, on a less sexy but still terrible fascinating note, here's what Google Analytics has told us about our online users and their habits for 2012. Oh, and we've had 32,308 unique users visit our site so far this year (stats from January 1st to December 10th). We feel almost as pretty and popular as Ryan Gosling. Almost.

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2012 Top Tens: Searching for TC Library’s Website from the Internet
Hm. People seem to be searching for Blackboard and not the Library. Sad. Next year, maybe our searchers will consider using quotation marks around their search phrases, LOL.

1. smumn blackboard
2. smumn library
3. smumn.edu blackboard
4. qualitative vs quantitative research
5. blackboard smumn
6. smumn blackboard login
7. smumn.edu
8. saint mary's university of minnesota
9. qualitative vs quantitative

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2012 Top Tens: Top Ten States using TC Library’s Website (excluding MN and WI)

1. Illinois wins! - 1,146
2. California - 808
3. New York - 557
4. Michigan - 544
5. Texas - 524
6. Florida - 420
7. Ohio - 396
8. Colorado - 394
9. Pennsylvania - 371
10. Georgia - 350

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2012 Top Tens: Top Ten International Superpowers using TC Library’s Website (excluding US)

1. United Kingdom wins! - 255
2. (not set) - 230 (I'll go ahead and assume this is North Korea.)
3. India - 229
4. Canada - 188 (eh? Fourth?)
5. Philippines - 164
6. Australia - 124
7. Malaysia - 116
8. Jamaica - 108
9. Kenya - 106
10. Saudi Arabia - 100

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2012 Top Tens: Most Popular TC Library Webpages

1. TC Library Homepage
2. Databases A-Z
3. Counseling & Psychology Resources
4. Articles
5. Education Resources
6. Marriage & Family Therapy Resources
7. Books & Videos
8. Blackboard/Engage & Library Resources
9. TC Library Homepage (alternate URL for homepage)
10. Nurse Anesthesia Resources

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Don't worry, here's Ryan Gosling. In fact, here's a whole blog of Ryan Gosling.

TC Library: Mobilized

Resources are within reach with Twin Cities Library's NEW mobile website! Access this mobile-friendly site using any smartphone or tablet (e.g. iPad) with Internet access. On this website, you can:

• Search for articles, ebooks, and more
• View your checked-out items
• Renew and request materials
• Watch video tutorials
• Get library hours and directions
• Ask us a question

The website was developed by Twin Cities Librarians, and its features were ordered based on student and faculty preferences as evidenced by our mobile website usability study.

For easy access on the go, bookmark the site or use the "MOBILE WEBSITE " link at www.smumn.edu/tclibrary.

Try it out, and let us know what you think.

Mobile Website Survey

This happens to me All. The. Time. I wake up at 2am thinking "what are TC Library’s hours on Thursday?" If only I was able to check their hours on my smartphone and go back to bed…but I cannot so I spend hours lying awake pondering the hours of operation. My cat hates it.
For this reason alone, TC Library is developing a mobile website. OK, actually, mobile computing puts learning into the hands of students, anytime, anywhere. Mobile content is convenient, proactive, and available at the user’s point of need. Higher education via mobile is the future.
In order to meet your needs and wants, please take this brief survey asking what you would like to see and do on TC Library’s mobile website. TAKE THE SURVEY HERE! Heck, you can even take it on your phone if you scan the QR code.

Website Unavailable 11/26

Hi Library Lovers, TC Library's Website will be inaccessible for a few hours this coming Friday. Read why below.

Original from: Mike Montgomery

The Information Technology Department is planning for a network outage on Friday, November 26th, 7am - 9am. This outage will affect network connectivity to the following services.

• Users residing off-campus (not physically present at the Minneapolis or Winona campus buildings) will not be able to get to Blackboard, Tegrity, Webmail, Webtools, or WWW2 pages.
• Users residing on the Winona Campus will have No off-campus internet or access to FSDirect (SchoolDude)
• Users residing at the Minneapolis Campus should not be affected.

Revisions to Web site

TC Library has improved our Web site based on your constructive feedback and suggestions. Below is list outlining the main changes. Please contact us if you have any questions--and we would love additional comments and feedback!

• Homepage - Article searching: The new default on the main page searching tabs allows you to search articles first. Choose a broad topic from the dropdown menu to see a page with database recommendations. If you know the database in which you'd like to search, select the link "Databases A to Z" under the dropdown menu.
  • You can also access links to Journal Finder and our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) article from here.
• Homepage - Book & Video searching: No longer the default tab on the homepage. Click the Books & Videos tab to search for these items.
• Homepage - top-of-page dropdown menus: Articles, Books & More leads you to pages specifically designed to help you find those different types of items.
• Homepage - top-of-page dropdown menus: Research Help is the new, more intuitive name for the old tutorials tab.
• Events: The old Events dropdown menu is now a Web page located under the About Us dropdown menu.
• Articles page: Find it by mousing over Articles, Books & More. The tabs explained:
  • Find Article Databases: Lets you choose a broad topic from the dropdown menu to see a page with database recommendations.
  • Find a Specific Article: Lets you use Journal Finder.
  • Request an Article: Lets you go to our ILL form.

If you so desire, we also have a short video introduction to our Web site available here. While not as creative as a Lady Gaga video, we feel it still has a respectable amount of artistic merit.

Coming soon: NEW WEB SITE

Hello SMU Community!

Mark your calendars and get out your bottles of celebratory champagne. It is with bated breath and much excitement that TC Library announces the introduction of our new Library Web site during the month of March!

TC Library’s new Web site features improved navigability, new databases, a new library catalog interface, new services, and additional tutorials. Some highlights include:

• Catalog and database searching from the homepage.
• Research tutorials in html, PDF, video, and mp4 format.
• Consistent dropdown menus on every page.
• Web 2.0—follow us online.

Be sure to click over to www.smumn.edu/tclibrary during the month of March. We hope you’ll like what you see!!

(The image above is a sneak peek of what one little section of our new homepage might look like.)