The following is a list of the top OneSearch search term at each campus (and the CUNY-wide OneSearch instance) between 03/01/2016 and 03/31/2016, organized by the number of times the query had been searched at that library:

• “social media” (275)
• 50 essays (169)
• “thirty years war” (112)
• jane austin (103)
• phillips “urban social work” (86)
• “gun control” (84)
• room key (83)
• adhd / children / education (79)
• the irish holocaust (63)
• carolyn rovee-collier (61)
• social mobility / united states (57)
• factory workers (54)
• souls of black folk (43)
• soylent green (38)
• water (37)
• poverty / poor / accountant* (31)
• youth video games (26)
• college readiness (23)
• english only (18)
• asian american career development: a qualitative analysis (10)
• america dancing (7)
• “cambridge associates” (4)

(The slashes indicate that the keywords were entered into individual search boxes on the Advanced Search screen.)

When we performed the top search in that library’s instance of OneSearch, we found some interesting audiovisual material, including a lot of news coverage about the role of social media during natural disasters (such as Hurricane Sandy) and social revolutions (such as the Arab Spring).

If you haven’t explored all that OneSearch has to offer, what are you waiting for!?

The following is a list of the top OneSearch search term at each campus (and the CUNY-wide OneSearch instance) between 02/01/2016 and 02/29/2016, organized by the number of times the query had been searched at that library:

• ellis island (205)
• interpersonal spacing (136)
• washington state (120)
• phillips “urban social work” (119)
• “code switching” (78)
• “social media” (76)
• french revolution (75)
• wilderness therapy (60)
• the industrial diet (55)
• world music global journey (52)
• road to brown (48)
• global warming (47)
• culture and personality (36)
• climate change (25)
• willowbrook state school (25)
• octavia butler (21)
• beginning algebra tobey (20)
• lipkind, william (17)
• postpartum depression (12)
• black panthers huey newton (8)
• the death and life of the great american school system (8)
• the functional art (5)

When we performed the top search in that library’s instance of OneSearch, we found some great photos, including this one from the Library of Congress:

If you haven’t explored all that OneSearch has to offer, what are you waiting for!?

The year 2015 marked the first full calendar year during which we had our discovery system, OneSearch, up and running across the CUNY libraries. It was a big year, with over 3.7 million searches performed across the University!

If you’re curious about the types of searches performed in an individual campus’s instance of OneSearch, you can access the back office and find all kinds of reports, statistics, and analytics about our users’ experiences with and behaviors within OneSearch. (More information about accessing OneSearch reports is available on the OLS Support Site.)

However, we think it’s also fun to see the big picture! The following is a list of the top search term at each campus (and the CUNY-wide OneSearch instance) between 01/01/2015 and 12/31/2015, organized by the number of times the query had been searched at that library:

henry ford constribution (3,997)
bibliographic and web tools for alternative media. (609)
interpersonal space (606)
gentrification (455)
stereotype threat (446)
spider silk treat damaged nerves (412)
arranged (392)
eliot t s / prufrock (351) *
spread of christianity (285)
fatherless children (265)
self awareness (244)
climate change (238)
students with traumatic brain injury (187)
who moved my cheese (183)
your college experience (162)
schmidt, elizabeth. peasants (161)
ocd treatment (122)
globalization (115)
public housing race poverty (98)
death penalty (58)
pro choice (54)
miss america pageant (31)

* In the reports, slashes (“/”) indicate separate search fields used within the “Advanced Search” screen.

Feel free to peruse the OneSearch back office for local statistics and check out the OLS statistics dashboard for more number-y goodness!