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Peer reviewedRouse, William B. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Discusses the purpose of mathematical models and reviews the phases of the modeling process--defining performance, representing the problem, predicting performance, estimating parameters, defining optimization criterion, determining solution, and implementing results. Reviews of book-use, resource allocation, and library network models are…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Circulation, Library Networks, Mathematical Models
Axford, H. William, Ed. – 1973
These proceedings include four articles intended to familiarize librarians with many facets of operations research and how they might be applied to their institutions. The first paper provides a brief definition of operations research. The second presentation, by Ralph Shoffner, relates, in the form of concrete examples, the questions one asks…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bookkeeping, Conference Reports, Cost Effectiveness
