University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Motivation to Select Books: A Study of Annotated and Unannotated Booklists in Public Libraries
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis study tested the effect of annotated and unannotated booklists on the circulation of non-fiction books by adult public library patrons. It was hypothesized that the circulation of a given group of books in a public library will be significantly greater when a booklist is present than when no booklist has been used, because booklists are an effective way to bring to the attention of adult patrons a finite number of books within a much larger collection and will motivate them to borrow these books. In addition, it is hypothesized that an annotated booklist will increase circulation of the books on that list significantly more than an unannotated booklist, because the use of annotations gives an adult patron a description of the content of the books.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Library Science
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Golden, Gary A.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8324562
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69481