Collection Overlap in the LCS Network in Illinois.

Potter, William Gray

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Publication Date: 1986

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Collection Overlap in the LCS Network in Illinois.

Potter, William Gray

Library Quarterly, v56 n2 p119-41 Apr 1986

Twenty-one libraries in Library Computer System participated in collection overlap study. Findings of random sample representing 1% of each collection indicate that high percentage of titles, 69.4%, occurred only once in network and that percentage of each library's collection unique to that library, ranged from 6.1% to 68.4%. (21 references) (EJS)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Higher Education, Library Collections, Library Networks, Library Surveys, Literature Reviews, Online Systems, Research Methodology, Tables (Data)

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Identifiers - Location: Illinois

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