著者

池内 淳

出版者

三田図書館・情報学会

雑誌

Library and information science (ISSN:03734447)

巻号頁・発行日

no.46, pp.1-36, 2001

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Although the problem of library size is one of the classical issues in the field of libraryscience, there has been very little direct discussion on it. Then, the purposes of this paper areto suggest methodologies for defining optimal library size in the viewpoint of efficiency, and toverify the applicability of those. In this study, two different methodologies were conducted using the statistical data ofJapanese public libraries past four years (1997-2000). Actual analysis was performed in twolevels, which is municipal-level and service point-level. lt was found that the concept oflibrary's efiiciency isn't consistent one. Because optimal library size also differ, when thecombination of variables are differed, even if it used the same methodology.