Trending Book Titles: Lost Animals

This is a spotlight on certain nonfiction titles that have been trending very well in my library. 

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller

A few months ago I noticed that majority of my titles on endangered animals were over 20 years old. I ordered a few recent one include Lost Animals. Most times with new books I will put them on display, but if the topic is too educational I immediately shelved. On impulse I decided to display Lost Animals. I'm excited to say that this title has become extremely popular!

I have only had it for 3 months, but it has checked out 10 times already. One patron even told me how much she enjoyed the book and was glad the library purchased it for our collection. 

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Meals in a Jar: Quick and Easy, Just-Add-Water, Homemade Recipes  by Julie Languille

9781612431635

Published Date: 3/19/13

22 checkouts in 11 months

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In this new series, I'm highlighting nonfiction books that have been checking out well at my library. 

Anything royals is popular at my library. All the scandalous books regarding Charles and Diana's divorce still checkout. When I saw this up and coming book, I knew it would be popular. 

It has circulated 12 times in the last 6 months. 

Trending Book Titles

Hands down one of my favorite parts of being a librarian is collection development. Collection Development is something that I take very seriously and I try to find titles that I know my patrons will love. I can’t help but feel proud when one of the titles I ordered is constantly being checked out. I feel like I have done my job and I am the best librarian in the world (I have a tendency to let this euphoric feeling go to my head…or ego.) Since I am bursting with pride, I thought I would try to spotlight some of the titles that have been big hits. Remember, I am the Reference Librarian so these titles will be nonfiction.

Cookbooks are beyond popular at my branch. Being in a small Southern town, cooking is an art form here. A recent big trend is paleo cooking. In my first few months here (I started in November 2012) there was a steady demand for anything related to paleo. We had absolutely nothing on it, so I order a 5 or 6 titles. Over the last year, these titles have stayed constantly checked out. Paleo Slow Cooker by Arsy Vartanian  has been the title with the most circulations. In the past 12 months it has checked out 20 times. I didn’t even see it for at least 6 months because it had a good size hold list.