Who won a Colin at the Library in 2015/2016?

Yes, we're here on the red carpet at the Gardner-Harvey Library once again to award this year's Colins, the award given to the items most checked out from the library during the previous academic year.  The award is named after Colin Gardner, one of the two namesakes of the library (George Harvey is the other, but really, the Georges? That wouldn't work).

We added 1194 items to our collection last year, plus some reserve items that just circulate briefly.  Which of them were used the most?

Entrants in the awards had to be added to the collection from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.  Here are some top ten lists in the following categories, along with the number of circulations per item:

Top ten textbooks

1. Leadership (BTE 401) - 42 (and the winner of the Colin!)
2. Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach - 26
3. Theatre: the Lively Art (THE 191) - 24
4. Human Biology (BIO 161) - 23 (so close!)
5. A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America (IDS 159) - 21
6. Personal Finance (BTE 117) - 18
7. Applied Fluid Mechanics (ENT 310) - 15
8. Marketing: the Core (BTE 105) - 15
9. What is Your Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (IDS 159) - 12
10. Ethics in a Computing Culture (CIT/CSE 262) - 12

Top ten fiction titles

1. Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee - 6  (and the winner of the Colin!)
2. Uprooted, Naomi Novik - 5
3. Seveneves, Neal Stephenson - 5
4. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho - 5
5. Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee (copy 2) - 4
6. Winter, Marissa Meyer - 4
7. Career of Evil, Robert Galbraith - 4
8. The Nest, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney - 4
9. Before the Fall, Noah Hawley - 4
10. Circling the Sun, Paula McLain - 3

Top ten non-fiction titles

1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo - 8  (and the winner of the Colin!)
2. The Official Guide for GMAT Review 2016 - 8
3. The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review, 2016 - 7
4. CPT 2016 Professional Edition - 6
5. Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari - 5
6. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates - 5
7. Rising Strong, Brenae Brown  - 5
8. Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson - 5
9. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance - 4
10. Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History, Guy Lawson - 4

Top five juvenile books (many tied with one check out)

1. What Pet Should I Get?, Dr. Seuss - 4  (and the winner of the Colin!)
2. Your Voice Is All I Hear, Leah Scheier - 2
3. The Story of Diva and Flea, Mo Willems - 2
4. Be a Friend, Salina Yoon
5. Freedom in Congo Square, Carole Boston Weatherford

Top ten DVDs

1. Game of Thrones, Season 1 - 5  (and the winner of the Colin!)
2. Penny Dreadful, Season 1 - 4
3. Salam Neighbor - 3
4. Citizen USA - 2
5. 300 - 2
6. Spider-Man (Tobey Macguire/Kristen Dunst) - 2
7. The Room (Tommy Wiseau) - 2
8. Do the Right Thing - 2
9. School Daze - 2
10. It Follows - 2

Top five pieces of equipment

1. A close match among five iPad charging blocks and cables (26 checkouts was the highest)

And that ends the Colin Awards for 2016!  A big congratulations to our winners and to all the nominees!