Author:
Knowlton Steven A.,Hackert Lauren N.
Abstract
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.
Publisher
American Library Association
Subject
Library and Information Sciences,Information Systems
Cited by
6 articles.
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