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crl-11502	Axford, H. William	Rider Revisited	1962	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1699	52	69	W I L L I A M A X F O R D IN 1940 Fremont Rider, then librarian of Wesleyan University, published a study which showed that, taken as a whole and on the average, American col- lege and university libraries tended to double their holdings every fifteen years.1 Given the facts that in 1900 Harvard University was the only university in the United States possessing over 500,000 vol- umes in its library and that there were 25 universities listing over a million vol- umes in their libraries by 1960, it seems appropriate to check and see how far Rider's axiom of library growth is still operative. T h e degree of correspondence be- 3 Berelson, Bernard, Graduate Education in the United States (New Y o r k : McGraw-Hill, 1960), p. 280.	cache/crl-11502.pdf	txt/crl-11502.txt