Year in Review: Most searched & borrowed resources of 2023

Calling holiday revelers! The Library’s got your back with electronic wonders 24/7, no matter where you are in the world. Articles, e-books, e-journals, newspapers, databases, libguides, e-book displays – content comes in all shapes and sizes. During the holiday break, take advantage of our collection. McGill students, faculty, and staff have can access it all. Dive into the festive spirit by exploring our online video and film libguide and the online audio & discographies libguide. They’re loaded with streaming resources that’ll jazz up your well-deserved downtime. Feeling a bit curious about what other folks have read or need a spark of joy for work or play? Check out the 2023 roundup below – it’s a treasure trove of inspiration! Special thanks to Associate Dean, Collections, Joseph Hafner; Director Collections, Louis Houle; and Associate Librarian Amanda Wheatley for their help in compiling the lists.🌟

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20 most borrowed e-books on McGill Overdrive / Libby*

1. The Girl in His Shadow: A Novel
2. Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
3. Yellowface: A Reese’s Book Club Pick
4. Really Good, Actually: A Novel
5. Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
6. Tastes Like War: A Memoir
7. Foster
8. Fourth Wing
9. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: A Memoir
10. Love, Theoretically
11. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
12. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
13. Hello Beautiful: Oprah’s Book Club
14. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
15. Meet Me at the Lake
16. Romantic Comedy: A Novel
17. Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
18. Birnam Wood: A Novel
19. Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
20. My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

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20 most borrowed audiobooks on McGill Overdrive / Libby*

1. Fourth Wing (unabridged)
2. Purposeful Empathy: Tapping Our Hidden Superpower for Personal, Organizational, and Social Change (unabridged)
3. Iron Flame (unabridged)
4. Yellowface (unabridged)
5. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It (unabridged)
6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (unabridged)
7. The Mountain is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (unabridged)
8. You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type (unabridged)
9. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate (unabridged)
10. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (unabridged)
11. Our Wives Under the Sea (unabridged)
12. The Creative Act: A Way of Being (unabridged)
13. The Marlow Murder Club (unabridged)
14. Happy Place (unabridged)
15. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between (unabridged)
16. Don’t Let Her Stay (unabridged)
17. Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard (unabridged)
18. Hell Bent (unabridged)
19. The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic: A Novel (unabridged)
20. A Far Wilder Magic (unabridged)

*McGill Library OverDrive collections can now be borrowed and viewed using the Libby app. Multiple libraries (for example, your local public library) can also be added.

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Top tracks from Naxos Music Library (streaming audio)

• CAGE, J.: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (B. Berman)
• LÉONIN / PÉROTIN: Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral (Tonus Peregrinus, Pitts)
• HILDEGARD VON BINGEN: Hymns / Sequences / Antiphones / Responds (Oxford Camerata, Summerly)
• SCHUMANN, R.: Frauenliebe und -leben / Liederkreis (J. Norman, Gage)
• STRAVINSKY, I.: Symphony of Psalms / BOULANGER, L.: Psalms (Monteverdi Choir, London Symphony, Gardiner)
• ADES, T.: Tevot / Violin Concerto / 3 Studies from Couperin / Dances from Powder Her Face (Rattle, Ades)
• SEITZ, F.: Violin Concertos, Vol. 1 – Nos. 1-5 (Hyejin Chung, Warren Lee)
• BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 (Mitsuko Uchida, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, K. Sanderling)
• STRAVINSKY, I.: Symphony of Psalms / BOULANGER, L.: Psalms (Monteverdi Choir, London Symphony, Gardiner)
• HILDEGARD VON BINGEN: Hymns / Sequences / Antiphones / Responds (Oxford Camerata, Summerly)
• SCHUMANN, R.: Missa sacra / 4 Doppelchörige Gesänge, Op. 141 (Swedish Radio Choir, Hammarström, Putniņš)
• BEETHOVEN, L. van: Missa solemnis (Pasztircsák, Harmsen, Davislim, Weisser, RIAS Chamber Chorus, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, R. Jacobs)

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10 most borrowed films on McGill Kanopy (streaming video)

1. Cannibali, I
2. Leviathan
3. Il Sorpasso
4. Suburban Birds
5. Mamma Roma
6. When Two Worlds Collide
7. Ash Is Purest White
8. Devi
9. Perfumed Nightmare
10. The Sacrifice

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20 most accessed journals

1. Nature
2. Science
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society
4. New England Journal of Medicine
5. Nature Neuroscience
6. Angewandte Chemie International Edition
7. The Lancet
8. Nature Genetics
9. Science of The Total Environment
10. Cell
11. Nature Methods
12. Nature Medicine
13. Neuron
14. NeuroImage
15. Environmental Science & Technology
16. Organic Letters
17. Journal of Cleaner Production
18. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
19. The Journal of Organic Chemistry
20. Journal of Chemical Education

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20 most accessed academic e-books

1. Oxford English Dictionary
2. Natural Language Semantics
3. The Jews
4. Medical-Surgical Nursing in Canada – E-Book
5. Minaret
6. The Golden Ass
7. Robinson Crusoe
8. A History of Modern Latin America
9. Braiding Sweetgrass
10. Grove Music Online
11. Development Economics
12. Calculus
13. Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications (Second Edition)
14. Measurements and Their Uncertainties
15. Indigenous Writes
16. Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice, Third Edition
17. Dermatology: 2-Volume Set (Fourth Edition)
18. A History of Spain
19. Race after Technology
20. Hidden Riches

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20 most viewed McGill Library Guides

1. Getting Started with SPSS
2. Citation guides
3. Learn R
4. Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews, and other Knowledge Syntheses
5. Rayyan for Systematic Reviews
6. Newspapers
7. Health Sciences Mobile Apps and Technology Guide
8. Evidence-Based Practice Resources – Interactive Guide
9. Nursing
10. Theses & Dissertations
11. Écriture inclusive
12. MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing
13. Management and Business
14. Scholarly Journal Publishing Guide
15. Artificial Intelligence
16. Industry Research
17. Text mining for searching and screening the literature
18. WCOM 206 Communication in Engineering
19. Finance
20. Writing Lab Reports

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20 most searched terms in the catalogue

1. Uptodate
2. Pubmed
3. Criterion on Demand
4. African Origin of Civilization
5. Science
6. Factiva
7. Nature
8. New England journal of medicine
9. Shifting Nicaraguan mediascapes
10. Loeb Classical library
11. Globe and mail
12. Web of Science
13. New York Times
14. Reese Music in the Renaissance
15. JSTOR
16. Kanopy
17. Nicaragua’s Turning Point
18. Chicago Manual of Style
19. The Economist
20. Middle East Politics and Government

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