Face Out: The Effect of Book Displays on Collection Usage

Camacho, Leticia; Spackman, Andy; Cluff, David

doi:10.1080/08963568.2014.883874

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“…Acknowledging the importance of visually attractive covers, printed placards featuring cover art were printed to replace absent dust jackets or items that were checked out. They noted overall average checkouts per month increased by 58.2%, with the highest change occurring in general business (100% increase) and finance (83% increase) subject areas (Camacho, Spackman, & Cluff, 2014). Another study attached printed covers and summary information for ebooks in their collection, along with Quick Response Codes (QR codes) linking to the ebooks, to wood blocks that were displayed in a prominent location in the library.…”

Section: Marketing E-resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Browsing the Intangible: Does Visibility Lead to Increased Use?

Tingle¹,

Teeter²

2018

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Library collections have become fractured as increased acquisition of ebooks has created hybrid print and digital collections. These developments have implications for user awareness of the most current items in the collection and their ability to understand their relationship to print collections, due to ebooks' absence in the physical library space. At the William M. White Business Library at the University of Colorado, Boulder, collocated displays are deployed in the print stacks to promote awareness of ebook collections and enable browsing and serendipitous discovery. This project revealed the difficulty of assessing ebook collections and their promotion when many platforms are involved.

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Section: Marketing E-resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Browsing the Intangible: Does Visibility Lead to Increased Use?

Tingle¹,

Teeter²

2018

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“…They can work with classroom faculty to design information literacy assignments that require students to explore the resources in the display. In a model similar to the one created by librarians at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library, an online library page that describes the books in the display can be created to complement the display and further drive circulation (Camacho et al , 2014). Building the library collection for such curriculum-focused displays may require librarians to seek funding sources. Librarians should seek opportunities to bring campus-wide initiatives, such as the First-Year Experience, Common Reader and Summer Bridge programs, to the library and take advantage of networking opportunities afforded by membership on campus committees.…”

Section: The Library’s Involvement In the Common Reader Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Library’s Involvement In the Common Reader Programmentioning

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The library and the common reader program: a collaborative effort to college transition

Megwalu

Miller

Haller

2017

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Purpose This paper aims to describe the inception and continuation of a collaborative effort between York College’s Common Reader program and the York College Library. The Common Reader program comprises academic and extracurricular activities designed to help achieve the goals of York College’s First Year Experience Program to assist in the successful transition, achievement and retention of first-year students at York College, The City University of New York. Design/methodology/approach The Common Reader Committee was initially comprising only of participating classroom faculty and Student Development staff. York College Library was invited to help with one of the extracurricular events. Subsequently, the collaboration was considered essential to the success of the Common Reader program. This paper describes the library’s role in supporting the initiative. Findings The library is an active member of York’s Common Reader Committee and is involved in the selection of the Common Reader book; publicity of the program; promotion of library resources and services; and the programming of extracurricular events. Involvement in these areas allows the library to collaboratively build a learning community, integrate information literacy skills into the curricula, nurture the practice of critical reading and help students feel connected in a new academic environment. Originality/value Many colleges have implemented common reading programs, and, in many cases, libraries have been involved in the program in some shape or form. However, at York College, there is a strategic partnership between the library and the Common Reader program. Such a partnership has made it possible for the library to be deeply involved in helping students transition to college life.

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“…Regarding the business discipline specifically, librarians at Brigham Young University observed a significant increase in usage for books featured on display shelves (Camacho et al, 2014). In this experiment, the display shelves included signage identifying the titles as "Recommended Books" in the following subjects: accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, economics, and general business (e.g., "Recommended Accounting Books").…”

Section: Book Displays In Academic Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The literature on book displays in academic libraries is not extensive, but there is enough to show that the impact is generally positive in regard to circulation of physical items (Camacho, Spackman, & Cluff, 2014;Crenshaw, 2014;Jones, McCandless, Kiblinger, & McCabe, 2011;Baker, 2010).…”

Section: Book Displays In Academic Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%