Book Use as a Bradford-Zip£ Phenomenon
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The Bradford distribution is introduced and explained; its ambiguity, arising from two different conceptions, and relationship to the Zipf distribution are discussed. The general situation that might be expected to yield such a distribution is described and shown to fit the interaction between book users and books available for use in a library. Circulation data from a major research library are then shown to follow the verbal rather than the graphical formulation of Bradford's law. Some possible implications are discussed.
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