Recent Items Stats for June
Recent Items added to WorldCat lists for the month of June are now available.
To preview these lists: navigate to your library's WorldCat profile page via the "Library info" link on the item details page. Then click the 'All recent additions by this library to WorldCat' link on the library profile to view the entire list.
Stats for the month of June:
- There were 13,627 institutions that added a new item to WorldCat in June.
- Of those, 813 did not have an existing recent items list, so WorldCat automatically created a new list.
- 12,814 recent items lists were updated.
The 5 most popular items added to WorldCat in June were:
The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes, added by 2,137 WorldCat libraries.Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Horse in the House, added by 1,943 WorldCat libraries.
The Frog Scientist, added by 1,904 WorldCat libraries.
Tricking the Tallyman, added by 1,882 WorldCat libraries.
along for the ride, added by 1,801 WorldCat libraries.
On July 6, 2009 at 5:14 PM Gary Perlman said:
It's fun to see the most popular items added to WorldCat, but these items are almost always kids' books, typically fiction. How about stats for different audiences: juvenile versus non-juvenile, fiction versus non-fiction? Or, what new DVDs are being added (maybe broken down by audience)? That might give more types of people reasons to check out their libraries.
On July 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM Laura
said:
Thanks for your feedback Gary. We are looking in to other interesting offerings within the recent items area, such as the ones you suggested above.
On July 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM AMH said:
I concur with Gary - especially since young folks are less likely to be seraching for theses kinds of things online. If you catalog DVDs then you would be onto something.
On July 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM CRaig said:
Why do recent additions stop at 500 for libraries? Are these the first 500 or the last 500 added for the month?
On July 20, 2009 at 2:40 PM Alice Sneary
said:
Hi CRaig. In the "recent additions" lists for libraries, each list shows the most popular 500 items of the materials that a library adds to WorldCat the previous month. WorldCat determines popularity by the number of libraries who own an item.
On July 23, 2009 at 5:43 AM Sarah said:
I would like to see this added as well. Thanks
Sara
On August 28, 2009 at 6:26 PM hbpl said:
I would like to see a list of recent items by young adult available as an RSS feed for our library young adult blogs.
Thanks.
On September 2, 2009 at 9:05 AM Debbie Mohr said:
Is there documentation anywhere about how these lists are created and how often and when they are updated?
It would be helpful to know more about the process in order to decide whether we want to link to our library's list of recent items added. Thanks.
On September 2, 2009 at 9:55 AM Laura
said:
Hi hbpl & Debbie,
Thanks for inquiring about the recent items feature on WorldCat.org. This feature is still in the early stages - and we are working to evolve it over the upcoming months.
- We are working on creating breakdowns of this list, such as fiction, young adult, etc.
- Currently, the lists are updated monthly, we are working to increase this frequency to weekly (if not more often).
- As Alice noted in an earlier comment, the lists show the most popular 500 items that the library has set holdings on in WorldCat in the past month. Popularity is determined by the number of other WorldCat libraries that also own the item.
Please let us know what other things would be valuable for you within this feature. For example, what other info would be helpful in the RSS feed?