Research question
- Will end panel indexes of shelves on the aisle increase circulation of the aisle?
Research shows that booklists will circulate books. End panels indexes combine on one sheet of paper a variety of booklists of the books down the aisle.
Previous research
- Summary at http://tinyurl.com/l6z6pv of The effect of a booklist on the circulation of fiction books which have not been borrowed from a public library in four years or longer by Nancy B. Parrish, Master Thesis, North Carolina, 1986. ,Vol. 8, #4, October 1938, pp. 480-490.
- Appendices to print version of this document give examples of end panel indexes.
- "'Aisle read' end panel guides for regular fiction shelves."
- "'Aisle read' end panel guides for regular fiction shelves."
Testing Hypothesis
- Circulation per title of aisles with aisle guides will be higher that circulation per title of aisles without aisle guides and all other fiction shelves.
Instructions for conducting the experiment (Print version)
- Randomly select two fiction aisles.
- Create an "aisle read" end panel guide for each side of one aisle. Feel free to modify the lists.
- Post the guides on each side of that aisle.
- For three months, measure the number of books returned in the aisle with the guides, aisle without the guides, and all other regular fiction shelves.
- To receive credit for completing this experiment, email as an attachment the completed circulation tables on print version of this document.
- Optional completing the worksheet called "Exp8AisleReads" in the Excel spreadsheet.
What a failed experiment looks like in the Excel spreadsheet
