Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés. The report examines the number of NALD Library documents, in both English and French, which are viewed and downloaded by visitors to the websites NALD, NALD@Work, BDAA and BDAA@uTravail.
The growth in the number of document downloads is a result of both increased usage and continued expansion of NALD’s full-text document holdings. This growth also indicates a high and growing demand for relevant, full-text documents by the Canadian literacy and essential skills community.
Documents from this list originated from different regions of Canada. They are representative of the NALD Library and its learning and research materials.
| # | Title of Document | # of downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Academic Studies English: Support Materials and Exercises for Grammar—Part I: Parts of Speech | 112,666 |
| 2 | How To Kit—Environmental Print Games by NWT Literacy Council | 13,403 |
| 3 | Changing the Way We Teach Math—A Manual for Teaching Basic Math to Adults by Kate Nonesuch | 12,249 |
| 4 | Money Math - Everyday Math Skills | 2009 by NWT Literacy Council | 12,094 |
| 5 | Kitchen Math - Everyday math Skills | 2009 by NWT Literacy Council | 11,839 |
| 6 | Bridging the Gap Between Literacy and Technology—Education Component—Evaluation Tools | 9,742 |
| 7 | Academic Studies English: Support Materials and Exercises for Writing Letters | 9,341 |
| 8 | English-as-a-Second Language Tutor Training Kit: A learner-Centred Approach to Tutoring Adult ESL Learners Tutor Training Manual by Myrina Rutten-James | 7,505 |
| 9 | Action Research in Workplace Education—A Handbook for Literacy Instructors by Maurice Taylor | 7,079 |
| 10 | Simply Math - Everyday Math Skills | 2009 by NWT Literacy Council | 6,700 |
| 11 | How To Kit—Readers Theatre by NWT Literacy Council | 5,407 |
| 12 | The ESL Computer Book—Microsoft Word 2003 by Kathy Burnett | 5,332 |
| 13 | Family Math Fun! by Kate Nonesuch | 4,321 |
| 14 | Adult ESL Learners Facilitator Training Manual by Myrina Rutten-James | 3,531 |
| 15 | Hot To Kit - "Get Caught Reading" & other literacy promotion ideas by NWT Literacy Council | 3,456 |
| 16 | Novel Study - Two Old Women by Velma Wallis - English 120 developed by NWT Literacy Council | 3,376 |
| 17 | Adult ESL Learners Facilitator Training Manual by Myrina Rutten-James | 3,210 |
| 18 | Relating Canadian Language Benchmarks to Essential Skills—A Comparative Framework by Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks | 2,720 |
| 19 | The ESL Computer Book—The Internet: Using Microsoft Explorer Developed by Kathy Burnett, Edited by Gerry Mills | 2,688 |
| 20 | Bridging the Employment Gap - Ready for Work by Simcoe/Muskoka Literacy Network |
2,572 |