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Direct linkLyons, Lucy E. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005
Over 500 libraries have employed OCLC's iCAS and its successor Automated Collection Assessment and Analysis Services (ACAS) as bibliometric tools to evaluate monograph collections. This examination of ACAS reveals both its methodological limitations and its feasibility as an indicator of collecting patterns. The results can be used to maximize the…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Science, Publications, Library Automation
