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What next?
- More focused use factor/ratio of borrowings to holdings studies: focus on call number areas in which there were more/less than one standard deviation from the mean.
- Citation analysis: faculty publications and student theses.
- How to: Any/all of these variables may be analyzed: types of resources cited, age of cited resources, library holdings, number of citations per publication, subject areas of cited journals, language of citations, impact factor of cited journals, and cost per circulation. (Hoffman and Douchette, 2012).
- Limitations: not all works consulted are necessarily cited, author may cite publications used marginally; citations by be made to curry favor with stars in the field; extraneous citations may be used to increase the length of the work; students may simply use readily-available sources. (Sylvia, 1998)
- Correlation study of library use and student learning (often represented by GPA).
- Limitations: Difficult to isloate reasons for students' academic achievement.
- Some disciplines focus far more upon journal access than book checkout.
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