Study on circulation counting in Kitano Hospital medical library (1978-1982)

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A study was carried out to determine whether the collection of books and periodicals is efficiently done, by analyzing the rate of utilization by hospital staff members such as physicians, surgeons, medical technologists, nurses, pharmacists and other personnel.The total number of medical books and periodicals utilized by the hospital staff from 1978 to 1982 was 15, 530, of which 74% was material possessed by out library, and 26% was that of other medical libraries. This indicates a considerably efficient collection of books and periodicals for the requirement as a whole, but in 4 out of 21 medical branchs in our hospital the utilization rates for the periodicals possessed by other libraries were over 40%, indicating insufficient collection in these areas. On the other hand, 36 (15%) of the 244 periodicals possessed by this library were not utilized over the 5-year period studies.These observations indicate that such a qualitative and quantitative analysis of circulation counting would be useful for refining the book and periodical collection in a library with a restricted budget.
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