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Creating Reader-Friendly Libraries

Experiments finding out what works

Website orientation

  • Purpose of Web site
  • How experiments work

What affects circulation?

  • Principle of Least Effort
  • Essay: Physical access to books
  • Essay: Mental access to books

Past experiments

  • Accessibility
  • Booklists
  • Browsers
  • Displays Face-front
  • Displays of audiobooks
  • Displays of books
  • Displays of new books
  • Displays of videos
  • Front door
  • Genre_shelving
  • Helping patrons
  • Information overload
  • Library size
  • Lists of audobooks
  • Lists of videos
  • New books
  • Overdues
  • Patron selection
  • Posters about audiobooks
  • Readers advisory
  • Reading enjoyment
  • Recommendation_labels
  • Selecting Books
  • Shelves

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Proposed experiments

  • Exp 1: What size of display circulates the most books in a week?
  • Exp 2: Do props effect selection from displays?
  • Exp 3: What amount of shelf "fullness" circulates the most books?
  • Exp 4: Does distance from the entrance effect circulation from shelves?
  • Exp 5: How can we improve circulation from lower shelves?
  • Exp 6: Will library books from lower shelves circulated as well as rotating books?
  • Exp 7: How can we make the nonfiction section more reader-friendly?
  • Exp 8: Will end panel indexes of shelves increase circulation of the aisle?
 
Chris Rippel
Central Kansas Library System
1409 Williams Street
Great Bend, Kansas 67530
620-792-4865
crippel@ckls.org