The effects of high median age on currency of resources in community college library collections

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 316-339

  Perrault, Anna H ^a   Madaus, Richard ^a   Armbrister, Ann ^a   Dixon, Jeannie ^a   Smith, Rhonda ^a  

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EID: 0033240913     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.60.4.316     Document Type: Article

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23. Ibid., 665.
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27. Ibid., 694.
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37. Richard W. Trueswell, "A Quantitative Measure of User Circulation Requirements and Its Possible Effect on Stack Thinning and Multiple Copy Determination," American Documentation 16 (Jan. 1965): 20-25; -, "Determining the Optimal Number of Volumes for a Library's Core Collection," Libri 16 (1966): 49-60; -, Analysis of Library User Circulation Requirements (Amherst, Mass.: Univ. of Massachusetts, 1968); "User Circulation Satisfaction vs. Size of Holdings at Three Academic Libraries," College & Research Libraries 30 (May 1969): 204-13; -, "Growing Libraries: Who Needs Them? A Statistical Basis for the No-Growth Collection," in Farewell to Alexandria: Solutions to Space, Growth, and Performance Problems of Libraries, ed. Daniel Gore (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pr., 1975): 72-104. (This last paper summarizes the previous research conducted by Trueswell.)
38. Richard W. Trueswell, "A Quantitative Measure of User Circulation Requirements and Its Possible Effect on Stack Thinning and Multiple Copy Determination," American Documentation 16 (Jan. 1965): 20-25; -, "Determining the Optimal Number of Volumes for a Library's Core Collection," Libri 16 (1966): 49-60; -, Analysis of Library User Circulation Requirements (Amherst, Mass.: Univ. of Massachusetts, 1968); "User Circulation Satisfaction vs. Size of Holdings at Three Academic Libraries," College & Research Libraries 30 (May 1969): 204-13; -, "Growing Libraries: Who Needs Them? A Statistical Basis for the No-Growth Collection," in Farewell to Alexandria: Solutions to Space, Growth, and Performance Problems of Libraries, ed. Daniel Gore (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pr., 1975): 72-104. (This last paper summarizes the previous research conducted by Trueswell.)
39. Richard W. Trueswell, "A Quantitative Measure of User Circulation Requirements and Its Possible Effect on Stack Thinning and Multiple Copy Determination," American Documentation 16 (Jan. 1965): 20-25; -, "Determining the Optimal Number of Volumes for a Library's Core Collection," Libri 16 (1966): 49-60; -, Analysis of Library User Circulation Requirements (Amherst, Mass.: Univ. of Massachusetts, 1968); "User Circulation Satisfaction vs. Size of Holdings at Three Academic Libraries," College & Research Libraries 30 (May 1969): 204-13; -, "Growing Libraries: Who Needs Them? A Statistical Basis for the No-Growth Collection," in Farewell to Alexandria: Solutions to Space, Growth, and Performance Problems of Libraries, ed. Daniel Gore (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pr., 1975): 72-104. (This last paper summarizes the previous research conducted by Trueswell.)
40. Richard W. Trueswell, "A Quantitative Measure of User Circulation Requirements and Its Possible Effect on Stack Thinning and Multiple Copy Determination," American Documentation 16 (Jan. 1965): 20-25; -, "Determining the Optimal Number of Volumes for a Library's Core Collection," Libri 16 (1966): 49-60; -, Analysis of Library User Circulation Requirements (Amherst, Mass.: Univ. of Massachusetts, 1968); "User Circulation Satisfaction vs. Size of Holdings at Three Academic Libraries," College & Research Libraries 30 (May 1969): 204-13; -, "Growing Libraries: Who Needs Them? A Statistical Basis for the No-Growth Collection," in Farewell to Alexandria: Solutions to Space, Growth, and Performance Problems of Libraries, ed. Daniel Gore (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pr., 1975): 72-104. (This last paper summarizes the previous research conducted by Trueswell.)
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44. Ibid., 93.
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47. Ibid., 128.
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50. -, Collection Management, 176.
51. Ibid., 177.
52. Ibid., 181.
53. Line and Sandison, "'Obsolescence' and Changes in Literature over Time," 302.
54. Aridaman K. Jain, "A Statistical Study of Book Use Supplemented with a Bibliography of Library Use Studies" (Ph.D. diss., Purdue University, 1967).
55. Ibid., 125.
56. George V. Hodowanec, "Literature Obsolescence, Dispersion, and Collection Development," College & Research Libraries 44 (Nov. 1983): 421-43.
57. Ibid., 425.
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60. Line and Sandison, "'Obsolescence' and Changes in Literature over Time," 284.
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