A use statistic for collection management: The 80/20 rule revisited

Britten, William A.

doi:10.1016/0364-6408(90)90061-x

Cited by 20 publications

(11 citation statements)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Finally the 80/20 rule, or more generally, the 80/100x rule, or even 1000/100x rule; 0 < x < 1, 0 < 6 < 1 (Britten, 1990;Burrell, 1985;Egghe, 1986;Mankin & Bastille, 1981), is nothing but a different mathematical description of the Lorenz curve.…”

Section: A Heuristic Explanation: a Positive Reinforcement Model Betwmentioning

confidence: 97%

Concentration and diversity of availability and use in information systems: A positive reinforcement model

Rousseau

1992

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: A Heuristic Explanation: a Positive Reinforcement Model Betwmentioning

confidence: 97%

Concentration and diversity of availability and use in information systems: A positive reinforcement model

Rousseau

1992

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Having said that, Britten's use of the 80/20 rule (Britten, 1990), which demonstrated that within the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library the idea that 20% of the material accounts for 80% of use, presents a general relationship that can be used in assessing a collection. Britten's conclusion at UT Knoxville resulted in a range of 1.5% to 40.0% of the material purchased accounted for 80% of the circulation (with an average of 21.3% of the new material accounting for 80% of the circulation).…”

Section: Results and Discussion Of What Was Collectedmentioning

confidence: 98%

A dual approach to assessing collection development and acquisitions for academic libraries

Danielson

2012

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

With a growing interest in evaluating the effectiveness of libraries, it is increasingly important that libraries find efficient ways to evaluate the collection development and acquisitions process. This requires a dual approach to explore both what was collected and actually used and also what was not collected which should have been. This study presents a way that both of these areas can be studied for smaller academic libraries and suggests ways these results can be interpreted and used to reallocate scarce budgetary resources or provide evidence for more funds for further developing the collection.

show abstract

“…In particular Kuhlthau (1991) argued that the demand for a resource is largely influenced by external and internal factors that direct the user toward the decision to borrow or not borrow a particular item. This can be interpreted through the Pareto distribution-inspired axiom of the 80/20 rule, in which 20% of collection items accounts for 80% of loans (Britten, 1990;Burrell, 1985;Koch, 1998;Nisonger, 2008;Trueswell, 1969); items are divided according to their popularity. Although the 80/20 rule provides an easy and understandable way of characterizing the popularity of collection items, its crisp definition creates a disadvantage for its interpretation.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%