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Unveiling the list of the most ILL\u2019d titles each year is always fun. And it\u2019s particularly special this year, as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of OCLC interlibrary loan. Today\u2014many services, upgrades and enhancements later\u2014about 280 million requests have been processed, including last year\u2019s 6.9 million.<\/p>\n
Here’s a look based on our 2018 data.<\/p>\n
We unveiled our latest list of the most popular ILL requests last month in Jacksonville, Florida, at the OCLC Resource Sharing Conference<\/a>. The resource sharing community always enjoys comparing what\u2019s popular on the OCLC ILL system with other notable book lists. In fact, watching the traffic on the ILL system has become popular enough that my colleague Tony Melvyn issues a monthly top 10 monographs list to the ILL listserv<\/a>.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s list is almost all new. Eight of the ten titles appear for the first time. The only repeats are The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck<\/em>, which moved up to #5 from #8 and A Gentleman in Moscow<\/em>, which dropped to #8 from #3.<\/p>\n Here are some other observations:<\/p>\n Another interesting list that I looked at was Amazon\u2019s 2018: This Year in Books<\/a>, which lists the most sold books across all formats\u2014Kindle, print, audiobooks, and subscriptions. The company breaks the list into fiction and non-fiction. The ILL request traffic on our system tracked this list pretty closely, with our top seven titles appearing on one of the lists.<\/p>\nLooking at interlibrary loan requests, 2018 edition. #OCLCnext <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n This year, for the first time, I thought I would include the list of the top 2018 serials from which articles were requested. There\u2019s a heavy bent towards medical journals, which is understandable given the need for the most current research information.<\/p>\n What interesting numbers and trends in ILL do you see? Let us know on Twitter with #OCLCnext.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related posts…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unveiling the list of the most ILL\u2019d titles each year is always fun. And it\u2019s particularly special this year, as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of OCLC interlibrary loan. Today\u2014many services, upgrades and enhancements later\u2014about 280 million requests have been processed, including last year\u2019s 6.9 million. Here’s a look based on our 2018 data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[30,32],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-sharing","category-trends","tag-ill","tag-resource-sharing"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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