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Peer reviewedMcGrath, William E. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1986
Discusses the issue of centralization or decentralization of academic library collections, and describes a statistical analysis of book circulation at the University of Southwestern Louisiana that yielded subject area clusters as a compromise solution to the problem. Applications of the cluster model for all types of library catalogs are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Centralization, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping
