A Formula for Estimating Collection Use

Stephen J. Turner
1977 College and Research Libraries  
A method is presented to estimate the proportion of books in a library which are responsible for the determination of the circulation performance rate of that library. The method is applied to a university library and to a public library with the finding that for the two libraries examined a much smaller proportion of the collection determines the circulation performance rate of the university library than for the public library.
doi:10.5860/crl_38_06_509 fatcat:36s5mgs7znhhtg46il456en5ca