Top 1,000 interlibrary loan requests

OCLC has mined data collected through use of the WorldCat Resource Sharing service to provide member libraries with lists of the most-requested monographs and journal titles requested through the service. The lists below show the most-requested monographs (books) and journal titles (articles) requested via OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing over a one-year period, from 1 July 2011 through 30 June 2012. The Excel spreadsheets of the top 1,000 titles for each format type include the OCLC record number, the title, and the number of request for the item and the OCLC number of the requested item.

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Top monographs

1. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
3. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
4. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
5. Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
6. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
7. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
8. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
9. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Thinking by Susan Cain
10. Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

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Top articles

1. Personality and individual differences
2. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
3. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
4. Social Science & Medicine
5. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
6. Dissertation Abstracts International. A, The Humanities and Social Sciences
7. Neurology
8. Journal of Homosexuality
9. Dissertation Abstracts International. B, The Sciences and Engineering
10. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

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