"Of Making Many Books There Is No End": Bibliometrics and Libraries.

Potter, William Gray

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Publication Date: 1988

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"Of Making Many Books There Is No End": Bibliometrics and Libraries.

Potter, William Gray

Journal of Academic Librarianship, v14 n4 p238a-38c Sep 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, Online Catalogs, Statistical Distributions, Validity

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Language: English

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