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Main Author: McGrath, William E.
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1986
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ342813
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  • Circulation Clusters--An Empirical Approach to Decentralization of Academic Libraries. McGrath, William E. Academic Libraries Centralization Cluster Analysis Cluster Grouping Decentralization Higher Education Library Catalogs Library Circulation Library Collections Multidimensional Scaling 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 described. (CDD)