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Silverman, B. W.; Wilson, J. D. – Journal of Documentation, 1987
This study estimates the proportion of academic and public library acquisitions in the United Kingdom for which a UK MARC record is available at the time of cataloging. A beta-binomial model is used to attribute standard errors to each estimate and to compare differences between the two types of libraries. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations