Auditing an academic library book collection

Auditing an academic library book collection

Librarians may use attribute sampling to estimate the maximum portion of a population having an attribute of interest. Advantages of the technique are that the user may examine a very small portion of the population and make an estimate with very low but measurable risk of misstatement.

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of academic librarianship 1996-07, Vol.22 (4), p.267-272
Hauptverfasser: Kiger, Jack E., Wise, Kenneth
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Academic Libraries
Access to Information
Attribute Identification
Auditing
Audits (Verification)
Cataloging
Collection development
Collections
Guidelines
Higher Education
Libraries
Library Acquisition
Library Collection Development
Library Collections
Resource Allocation
Sampling
Strategic Planning
Tennessee University
University libraries
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Zusammenfassung:Librarians may use attribute sampling to estimate the maximum portion of a population having an attribute of interest. Advantages of the technique are that the user may examine a very small portion of the population and make an estimate with very low but measurable risk of misstatement.
ISSN:0099-1333
1879-1999
DOI:10.1016/S0099-1333(96)90116-0