Citation analysis of faculty publications, doctoral dissertations, and preliminary doctoral qualifying briefs produced by faculty and students of the Biology Department, Temple University, is used to assess journal use in the Biology Library during the years 1975-1977. There are 3739 citations to 336 journals in the combined sources ranking. The distribution of citations in each user group ranking and the combined sources ranking takes the form of a Bradford distribution; slope and x-intercept values are given for each ranking. Sixty highly cited titles are examined in detail. Dissertation citations are dependent on active faculty participation in the doctoral program. Citations in qualifying briefs cover a broader range of topics and interests than either of the other two sources. Citation frequencies of volumes published in the periods 1960-1969 and 1970-1977 are examined. The post-1960 citation frequency for 51 titles is 80% or higher. Several collection maintenance and development decisions have been made, based on the results of this study. Citation analysis is shown to be a useful tool in assessing actual and potential journal use by a heterogeneous clientele in a departmental library.

Patterns of journal use in a departmental library: A citation analysis

This paper catalogs laws and regularities of empirical nature which are in the domain of study of information science and which have been published in professional literature. No attempt has been made to critically assess or evaluate their validity in terms of reported empirical evidence. Selected applications of some of these laws and regularities are listed at the end.

Information Science Laws and Regularities: A Survey

The availability and use of international documentation in Yugoslav libraries

The publications and documents of the United Nations family of organizations are indispensable to many students, researchers and librarians. To users however, the bibliographic access to the materials can appear to be a nearly impenetrable thicket. The purpose of this analysis is to provide insight into the Status of bibliographic control of those materials within the United Nations System, and to examine the potential for and make recommendations concerning further coordination of bibliographic control, and the enhancement of user access. In this context \"bibliographic control\" is intended to mean the activities directed to ensure the recording of descriptive, subject, and analytical Information concerning a body of documentation, and the organization of that Information by manual or computer-aided techniques with a view to efficient use. \"Coordination in bibliographic control of United Nations documentation\" covers the policies through which a uniform approach to bibliographic control of the documentation is adopted throughout the United Nations system. The United Nations family of organizations examined here include the:

Documentation of the United Nations System: Results of a Survey, and Consequent Recommendations

An examination of the occurrence of data elements within the various indexes and bibliographies produced by the 15 intergovernmental organizations of the United Nations system revealed a classic Bradford distribution. Interestingly, in this case the data is the number of types, not tokens. Implications for bibliographic unification are discussed.

Luciana Marulli

Papers

Bradford distribution of data elements

Documentation of the United Nations System: Results of a Survey, and Consequent Recommendations