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Buckland, M.K.; Woodburn, I. – 1968
As part of a project designed to construct a mathematical model of the operation of an academic library, a research team determined the usefulness of a quantitative approach to making decisions about the number of copies of each item that a university library should provide. Using the reserve collection of the University of Lancaster Library as a…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Decision Making, Information Utilization, Library Materials