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Download full textGoldhor, Herbert – 1985
The Index of American Public Library Circulation dates back to 1939, and the Index of American Public Library Expenditures to 1951. These indexes are based on annual reports from a sample of all American public libraries serving more than 25,000 people each. Using the 1982 American Library Directory, the researchers identified 1,586 public…
Descriptors: Correlation, Foreign Countries, Indexes, Library Circulation
Naylor, Richard J. – Library Journal, 1987
Statistics on book budgets, population served, and collection size of individual public libraries in New York State were correlated with their circulation data to examine efficiency of scale for mid-size libraries. Findings show that circulation increases erratically with increased book budgets and size of population, but consistently with…
Descriptors: Budgets, Correlation, Library Circulation, Library Collections
