{"id":3911,"date":"2021-02-04T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2021-03-01T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:07:30","slug":"books-we-read-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/books-we-read-in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Books We Read in Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3912\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/02\/BWR_Stats-192x300.png\" alt=\"Books We Read statistics infographic\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/02\/BWR_Stats-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2021\/02\/BWR_Stats.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/>Launched in August 2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/\">Books We Read site<\/a> will continue to serve the virtual Cook Campus in its fifth semester in Spring 2021. In addition to a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/about-us\/timeline\/\">brief timeline<\/a> posted on the site, here are some statistics, focusing on the online environment, with data collected with Google Analytics from 3\/16\/2020 through 12\/31\/2020.<\/p>\n<p>The homepage was viewed <strong>1,415<\/strong> times out of the total <strong>10,652<\/strong> page views for the site as a whole, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a> page as most popular (<strong>501<\/strong> page views). Adding the <strong>303<\/strong> views of the page <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/resources\/how-to-find-ebooks-at-rutgers-and-beyond\/\">How to find eBooks at Rutgers and beyond<\/a> indicates that it was worth showcasing Rutgers resources by rehashing existing content from the RUL page and various LibGuides to our target audience.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular blog, out of a total of <strong>90<\/strong> so far, was a guest post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/from-humans-to-gods-a-trip-through-the-history-of-humankind\/\">From Humans to Gods: a Trip Through the History of Humankind<\/a> written by Susana Echeverri Herrera, a Reference Assistant at Douglass. The next two popular ones are <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/summer-time-for-audiobooks\/\">Summer: Time for Audiobooks<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/classics-for-the-coronavirus\/\">Classics for the Coronavirus<\/a>. The most popular book reviews on a single title (a.k.a. staff picks) were <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/staff-picks-one-hundred-years-of-solitude\/\">Staff Pick: One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/summer-reads-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy\/\">Summer Reads: The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a>. The most frequently visited ones featuring collections were <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/resources\/audiobooks-for-quarantine\/\">Audiobooks for Quarantine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/escapist-reads-fantasy-edition\/\">Escapist Reads: Fantasy Edition<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/summer-with-new-jersey-books-and-authors\/\">Summer with New Jersey books and authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/people\/\">Books We Read team<\/a> also supported projects and cohosted virtual events partnering with NBL librarians and staff as well as other Rutgers groups. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/past-projects\/banned-books-week-2020\/\">The six posts related to Banned Books<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/category\/rugrat\/urban-sketching\/\">the six posts on Urban Sketching<\/a>, promoting and documenting <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/gallery\/banned-books-week-2020-banned-books-we-read\/\">the event<\/a> for those who were unable to participate, were well received. Guest bloggers included librarians <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-books-week-2020-banned-no-more\/\">Nancy Kranich<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-books-week-2020-what-is-a-zine\/\">Megan Lotts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to expanding another popular topic called <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/category\/science-communication\/\">Science Communication<\/a>, experimenting with ten posts in Fall 2020, including two by guests Stephanie Bartz and Megan Lotts. Again, a major goal is to drive traffic to existing RUL resources by publicizing them in an easily digestible format, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/citerul\/\">finding and citing quotes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/cite-right-images\/\">handling images properly<\/a>, both drawing upon respective LibGuides by their authors.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by a fun Fall workshop the team hosted for the Work\/Study Students Professional Development (organized by Rose Barbalace and Chiaki Mills), this series has shown a great potential for offering our students topics they need (in that case how to cite sources), and reaching out to the community at large with topics of common interest, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/predatory\/\">predatory publishing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/citizen-science-workshop\/\">citizen science<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/cannabis\/\">marijuana resources at Rutgers<\/a>. Another result of this collaboration was our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/category\/stressbusters\/\">virtual stressbuster series<\/a>, including a post welcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/dotus\/\">DOTUS, aka Presidential Dogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bookmark the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/\">Books We Read site<\/a>, or follow our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sebslfl\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BWR_Chang\">Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[A version of this post was also submitted to New Brunswick Library News.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in August 2019, the Books We Read site will continue to serve the virtual Cook Campus in its fifth semester in Spring 2021. 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