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Peer reviewedRouse, Sandra H.; Rouse, William B. – Information Processing and Management, 1979
Analyzes the half-life of book use through analysis of over 10,000 regional and statewide interlibrary loan requests. Correcting for the growth of the literature, this study indicated that the half-lives of monographs may increase from lower to higher levels of the hierarchy in a library network. (CWM)
Descriptors: Books, Information Needs, Information Utilization, Interlibrary Loans
