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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc330606 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Banks, Julia Ann |
| Contributors | Totten, Herman L., Thomas, L. Fred (Lawrence Fred), Minites, John J., Cleveland, Donald B., 1935-, Nichols, Margaret Irby, Carroll, Dewey Eugene |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | xii, 190 leaves : ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Banks, Julia Ann, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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