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crl-12897	Leach, Steven	The Growth Rates of Major Academic Libraries: Rider and Perdue Reviewed	1976	12	.pdf	application/pdf	6072	333	69	In fact, this may be asserted as almost axiomatic: unless a college or univer- sity is willing to be stagnant, unless it is willing not to maintain its place in the steady flow of educational devel- opment, it has to double its library in size every sixteen years, or there- abouts.a Here, Rider appropriated the truism that there exists a direct correlation be- tween continuous library growth and the educational effectiveness of any uni- versity, combined it with his conclusion about the past rate of library growth, and thereby constructed a seemingly in- contestable argument from which he ex- trapolated his hypothesis about the rate of future library growth. The 1965 Purdue study of library growth in a sense verified Rider's hypathesis and its use as a predictive tool.	cache/crl-12897.pdf	txt/crl-12897.txt