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crl-11577	Piternick, George	Library Growth and Academic Quality	1963	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3439	123	60	College and Research Libraries Library Growth and Academic Quality THE LATE FREMONT RIDER's famous ob- servations and conclusions on library growth1 were re-examined in a recent article by H. William Axford in this journal.2 Axford sought to find whether or not the growth of university libraries since 1946 was maintaining the pace Rider found typical for the period be- fore 1940, and whether or not Rider's warning that libraries must double in size every fifteen or twenty years in order that their parent institutions might con- tinue to maintain high academic rating is indeed valid. If, however, certain rank orders of library data for the twenty institutions (omitting M.I.T. and CalTech because they have academic offerings in only a 6 Axford, op .	cache/crl-11577.pdf	txt/crl-11577.txt