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Matrix Models and the Search for Structure in Subject-Majors Circulation: A Methodological Study.
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McGrath, William E.; And Others – Library and Information Science Research, 1988
Four models for conceptualizing a circulation matrix containing the number of books borrowed according to subject and majors of student borrowers compare (1) majors; (2) subjects; (3) disciplines, suppressing the distinction between majors and subjects; and (4) majors with subjects. Results of multidimensional scaling analysis of the models are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Circulation, Library Collections
Circulation Clusters--An Empirical Approach to Decentralization of Academic Libraries.
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McGrath, William E. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1986
Discusses the issue of centralization or decentralization of academic library collections, and describes a statistical analysis of book circulation at the University of Southwestern Louisiana that yielded subject area clusters as a compromise solution to the problem. Applications of the cluster model for all types of library catalogs are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Centralization, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping