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Value Added: Book Covers Provide Additional Impetus for Academic Library Patrons to Check Out Books

Author(s) -

Steven Knowlton,

Lauren N. Hackert

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

library resources and technical services

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.342

H-Index - 24

eISSN - 2159-9610

pISSN - 0024-2527

DOI - 10.5860/lrts.59n3.112

Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , value (mathematics) , academic library , circulation (fluid dynamics) , library science , measure (data warehouse) , computer science , column (typography) , world wide web , information retrieval , database , engineering , telecommunications , mechanical engineering , frame (networking) , machine learning , aerospace engineering

Publishers attract readers to books and inform them about the books’ contents by adding information to the books’ covers. In many academic libraries, the dust jackets of cloth-bound books are discarded. This study was a physical inventory of 1,319 recently published books in an academic library, and comparison of circulation statistics between different cover types. By every measure, books with publisher-supplied information on the cover circulated at a higher rate than books with plain covers. The implications of our findings for collection management are discussed.

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