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Peer reviewedPotter, William Gray – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1988
Describes the basic concepts of Lotka's law of scientific productivity, Bradford's law of scatter, and Zipf's law of word occurrence. The discussion covers the validity of these laws and useful applications of each law to specific library applications. (13 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Indexing, Library Collection Development, Library Planning
