Blog-tastic!

Our blog has received more than 10,000 pageviews since its creation last July!

The top five most popular individual posts to date are:

1. World Book Day 2011 (386)
2. I'm a Celebrity Librarian...Get Me Out of Here! (331)
3. Titanic Anniversary (293)
4. What do you love about your SMU Library? (255)
5. New e-books available (132)

Thank you to all our followers and viewers!

An interesting statistic for today...

During academic year 2009/10, our three SMU Libraries received a total of 231, 241 visits!

Top five most popular SMU Library databases!

Following on from our top five most borrowed books post, we can now reveal details of our top five most popular databases, from September 2009 through to the end of June 2010...

1. Ebsco Business Source Premier
2. PsycARTICLES
3. Art Full Text
4. Science Direct
5. Education Research Complete

All of the above are available both on and off-campus, and if you need any help using them please contact your subject librarian!

Top five most borrowed books from SMU Libraries!

From September 2009 through to the end of June 2010, the five most borrowed books from our libraries were:

1. 'Exploring Corporate Strategy' by Gerry Johnson, Kevan Scholes & Richard Whittington
2. 'Management and Organisational Behaviour' by Laurie J. Mullins
3. 'Research Methods in Education' by Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion & Keith Morrison
4. 'Ways of Learning : learning theories and learning styles in the classroom' by Alan Pritchard
5. 'The Theory and Practice of Change Management' by John Hayes

The above titles (except for no.4) are also available as e-books through our library catalogue!