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Syllabus

The Evaluation of Collection Shelving Quality

Quality Shelving Survey

MCG's Response

AASHLD Responses

Analysis

Charts / Graphs

Hand Outs

Methodology Used for the Greenblatt Library Research Study on Quality Shelving

A Benchmark for Quality Shelving:  Weaving Our Way Through the Stacks


 

A Benchmark for Quality Shelving:
Weaving Our Way Through the Stacks


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Marilee Creelan, M.Lib.
mcreelan@mail.mcg.edu

Rebecca R. Fehrenbach, S.L.I.S., M.L.I.S.
rfehrenb@mail.mcg.edu

Jacqueline A. Rodgers, M.S.A.
jrodgers@mail.mcg.edu

Midwest/Southern Chapter
Lexington, Kentucky
October 11, 1998


Quality Shelving Outline

  1. Quality Indicators
  1. Accuracy
  2. Staff
  3. Time and Costs
  1. Results
  1. Rate
  2. Benchmark
  1. Recommendations
  1. Continue with present procedures
  2. Shelf read and Statistics
  3. Benchmark
  4. Further studies
  1. Evaluations
  1. Charts
  2. Significant Differences
  3. Z-test data
  4. Further Study
  1. Goals
  1. Future Benchmarking
  2. Benchmarking Partners

Reference List

Banks, J. (1991). Motivation and effective management of student assistants in academic libraries. Journal of Library Administration, 14(1), 133-154.

Buchanan, H., & Marshall, J. (1996). Benchmarking reference services: Step by step.Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 51(1), 2-13.

Caywood, C. (1992). How to hire library shelvers. School Library Journal, 38, 35.

Kendrick, C. (1991). Performance measures of shelving accuracy. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 17(1), 16-18.

Lowenberg, S. (1989). A comprehensive shelf-reading program. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 15(1), 24-27.

Marshall, J., & Buchanan, H. (1995). Benchmarking reference services: An introduction. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 14(3), 59-73.

Owens, S. (1992). Does shelf-reading affect your library’s image? Ohio Libraries, 5, 14-17.

Pedersen, W. (1989). Statistical measures for shelf-reading in an academic health sciences center library. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 77, 219-222.

Sharp, S. C. (1992). A library shelver’s performance evaluation as it relates to reshelving accuracy [Brigham Young University study, 1988-89]. Collection Management, 17(20), 177- 192.

Sweetland, J. (1988). Time required for shelf reading—A case study. College & Research Libraries, 49, 75-77.

Williams, R. (1990). Computer-assisted instruction for student book shelvers using dBase III+ [presented at CIL Conference’90]. Library Software Review, 10,35-36.

Please view full presentation at: http://www.mcg.edu/Library/MLA/Lexington


Further Reading

Staffing and Training

GIS collection development, staffing, and training. | (review of the literature) | Longstreth, Karl Eric. | The Journal of Academic Librarianship | v. 21 (July ’95) p. 267-74

Highlights of the collection development evaluation program: "training for collection development; collection building by design". | (at the 1992 ALA Conference) | MacEwan, Bonnie J. | Library Acquisitions | v. 17 (Spring ’93) p. 101-3

Shelf Reading

Benchmarking development needs in the LIS sector. | (library and information science) | Garrod, Penny. | Kinnell, Margaret. | Journal of Information Science | v. 23 no2 (’97) p. 111-18

Measuring up to the competition. | (overview of benchmarking and proposed database for special libraries) | Coult, Graham. | Jackson, Lindsey. | Library Association Record | v. 98 (Sept. ’96) p. 471

CD-ROM drive benchmarking: taking a new Tach. | (CD-TACH, a benchmark-tool for Windows 95) | Thompson, Brad. | EMedia Professional | v. 10 (Jan. ’97) p. 60-1

Shelving

Method without madness: shelf-reading methods and project management. | (at the University of Illinois) | Anderson, Dawn R. | College & Undergraduate Libraries | v. 5 no1 (’98) p. 1-13

Take this book and shelve it!. | (interactive instructional program for student shelvers at Norwich University Library) | Heller, Paul C. | Kohler, Stuart. | College & Research Libraries News | no7 (July/Aug. ’96) p. 425-6

Occupation: shelver. | Haddad, Carolyn. | The Unabashed Librarian | no. 96 (’95) p. 3-4

Staff Motivation

Punished by rewards: why incentive programs cannot work. | (staff motivation) | Evans, Kathleen. | The Unabashed Librarian | no105 (’97) p. 15-16

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November 01, 2001