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7 February 2007

What libraries can learn from bookstores

Category: Clippings

From “What libraries can learn from bookstores: Applying bookstore design to public libraries” by Chris Rippel (INFOcus, January 2007):

In Why we buy: the science of shopping, Paco Underhill writes, “Take a look at that [bookstore] wall, over near the information desk. What do you see? This week’s New York Times ‘Best seller list,’ or rather a grimy copy of it, taped up. Next to it is a rather grimy photocopy of the Modern Library list of the so-called one-hundred top novels of the twentieth century. Have you ever seen a more pathetic display of such useful and interesting information?” Underhill advises that such lists should be reproduced in large print for easy reading over displays of books on the list.

via LISnews

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