New Article: “At Your Leisure Pilot Project: Providing Leisure Reading Materials to a University Community through an Academic and Public Library Initiative”
The following article was recently published by Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research.
Title
Authors
Suzanne van den Hoogen
StFX University
Kristel Fleuren-Hunter
Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library
The People’s Place Library
Source
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research
Vol. 12, No. 1 (2017)
Abstract
Leisure reading collections were once as integral to academic libraries as they currently are to public libraries. This article examines the results of a partnership between an academic and a public library to provide access to leisure reading materials to a university community through a one-year pilot project. Data were collected using circulation statistics, gate counts, and comment cards in the form of book inserts. During the pilot, gate counts increased by 6%, and 91% of participants indicated that they would continue to use the collection often or sometimes. The pilot was officially adopted as a new service at the end of the one-year trial period.
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Filed under: Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.