Application of a collection‐control model for scientific libraries

Bani K. Sinha and Richard C. Clelland

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1976, vol. 27, issue 5, 320-328

Abstract: This collection‐control model is based jointly on book age and collection proportion in each of several classes of a subject matter classification system. Application of the model to the physics bookholdings of the Mathematics‐Physics Library of the University of Pennsylvania indicates that the same number of home uses as actually occurred in 1968 could have been generated by a physics collection 60.2 percent the size of the actual collection. It also provides estimates of the number of books to be acquired and weeded during the succeeding year. Opinions of subject‐matter experts should be incorporated into the decision to determine titles to be removed from the active collection.

Date: 1976
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