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The Effects of Extended Loan Period, Released Time, and Incentive Pay on Increasing Shelving and Shelf-Reading Productivity of Student Assistants in Academic Libraries

The purpose of this research was to determine if an extended loan period, released tine, and incentive pay increased the student assistants' shelving and shelf-reading rates. The first quasi-experiment utilized loan, time, and pay given across the board as motivators. Because the population for this study was small, a questionnaire, intended to strenghten the study's results by identifying additional libraries which effectively use similar motivational techniques, was mailed to the forty private university libraries throughout Texas. A second questionnaire polled the student participants about their feelings about shelving and shelf-reading and about the motivators used in the study. The second quasi-experiment motivated the student assistants by pay tied to productivity. Gender, grade point average, and academic classification were control variables for this study.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc330606
Date05 1900
CreatorsBanks, Julia Ann
ContributorsTotten, Herman L., Thomas, L. Fred (Lawrence Fred), Minites, John J., Cleveland, Donald B., 1935-, Nichols, Margaret Irby, Carroll, Dewey Eugene
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatxii, 190 leaves : ill., Text
RightsPublic, Banks, Julia Ann, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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