A Statistical Model of Book Use and its Application to the Book Storage Problem
A. K. Jain, F. F. Leimkuhler, Virgil L. Anderson · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1969
A statistical model is presented for describing the distribution of book uses in a research library. This model is used to attack the problem of book storage in a research library. A rule which says that a book goes to the storage collection if it is not used for k consecutive years after its acquisition in the library is studied. A similar rule for transferring active books from the storage to the active collection is also examined. Examples are provided to illustrate some of the results.