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Peer reviewedDavis, Hazel M. – Public Libraries, 1993
Discusses psychographics, lifestyle characteristics, and the cluster system of targeted market analysis and their potential use by public libraries for correlating lifestyles in local communities and collection development. Preliminary studies are reviewed, data verification is discussed, future research is suggested, and six lifestyle tables are…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Community Characteristics, Correlation, Library Collection Development
Peer reviewedDavis, Hazel M.; Altman, Ellen – Public Libraries, 1997
Reports the results of a study of circulation records from 10 communities that were analyzed by Dewey Classification and by subjects to discover whether there is a relationship between community lifestyles and circulation patterns in public libraries. The hypothesis that data on community lifestyles have value for collection development was…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Dewey Decimal Classification, Hypothesis Testing, Library Circulation
