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Peer reviewedBurgin, Robert – Library and Information Science Research, 1989
Outlines the general techniques of Guttman scale analysis and briefly describes its uses in social science research. To illustrate the potential application to library science, a Guttman scale of restrictiveness in dealing with overdue books is developed and data from a 1986 survey of public libraries are fitted into the scale. (23 references)…
Descriptors: Library Science, Library Surveys, Mathematical Models, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedStrubbe, Lisa Aren – Library and Information Science Research, 1989
Describes a study at the University of Michigan that examined the extent of serials duplication among branch and divisional libraries, the portion of the serials budget made up of duplications, and the relationship between duplication and serials characteristics. Ways to avoid serials duplication are suggested based on the findings of this study.…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Collection Development, Library Expenditures
Peer reviewedWallace, Danny P.; Boyce, Bert R. – Library and Information Science Research, 1989
Describes a study that compared holdings figures from the OCLC database to productivity measures from the "Journal Citation Reports" section of "Science Citation Index" and publisher circulation figures to determine whether there is a systematic relationship between easily gathered holdings and circulation figures and less…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Evaluation Criteria, Library Circulation, Library Collection Development
Peer reviewedBrooks, Terrence A.; Forys, John W., Jr. – Library and Information Science Research, 1986
Circulation time-series data from 50 midwest academic libraries were used to test 110 variants of 8 smoothing forecasting methods. Data and methodologies and illustrations of two recommended methods--the single exponential smoothing method and Brown's one-parameter linear exponential smoothing method--are given. Eight references are cited. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Library Administration
Peer reviewedFidel, Raya – Library and Information Science Research, 1993
Reviews the literature on qualitative methods in information retrieval research. Qualitative research is shown to be noncontrolling, holistic and case oriented, about processes, open and flexible, diverse in methods, humanistic, inductive, and scientific. Relevance to library and information science and sources of information on qualitative…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedMolyneux, Robert E. – Library and Information Science Research, 1986
Reviews studies done on academic library growth in attempt to clarify three reasons for failure of these analyses to result in usable projections of library size. Highlights include patterns in library growth (hypothetical exponential and arithmetic growth), Fremont Rider's studies of growth, and literature on growth after Rider. (28 references)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
