Shelf Check: Shelf Check #151

12/6/07

denese said...: Do you have a link to the article you're referring? I'd love to read it.; December 6, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Emily Lloyd said...: Hi. "Only wanting contact"--a blog post at at the PHM3 blog--mentioned "an older study that found that patrons who had received service from a reference librarian who managed to touch their hand during the interaction (while handing them a slip of paper perhaps) consistently rated the service they received as better than those in a control group who received the same service, but did not have their hand touched during the interaction" on Dec. 2. Unfortunately, no link to the study. I haven't tried to find it yet--but if the ref desk is slow tonight...; December 6, 2007 at 4:45 PM