{"id":253,"date":"2011-05-27T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-05-27T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:33:06","slug":"physics-faculty-and-students-love-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2011\/05\/27\/physics-faculty-and-students-love-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Faculty and Students Love Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book circulation is a common measure of success for libraries.\u00a0 Recently we did a quick study on the use of physics books in Rodgers Library.\u00a0 We wanted to know if the books we acquired are meeting needs of students and faculty for learning, instruction and research.\u00a0 Are books being checked-out?\u00a0 Well the answer if you believe in the MO test, yes.\u00a0 An experiment was run in class QC (physics) in May 2011.\u00a0 Test A:\u00a0 at random pulled three books from the shelves and examined date due slips.\u00a0 Results showed that all three books circulated since 2002.\u00a0 Repeat the experiment.\u00a0 Test B:\u00a0 again at random pulled three QC books from the shelves and checked the date due slips.\u00a0 In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> test, results showed much the same as all three books circulated since 2005.\u00a0 Even while the data is a bit thin, the study demonstrates the value of the physics collection.\u00a0 Results from this study are not at all that surprising, since Rodgers Library seeks to closely match new book selections with instruction and research going on in UA\u2019s Department of Physics and Astronomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book circulation is a common measure of success for libraries.\u00a0 Recently we did a quick study on the use of physics books in Rodgers Library.\u00a0 We wanted to know if the books we acquired are meeting needs of students and faculty for learning, instruction and research.\u00a0 Are books being checked-out?\u00a0 Well the answer if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2011\/05\/27\/physics-faculty-and-students-love-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics Faculty and Students Love Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11],"tags":[4030,4029,4031],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-science","tag-books","tag-circulation","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}