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crl-14702	Lowry, Charles B.	Reconciling Pragmatism, Equity, and Need in the Formula Allocation of Book and Serial Funds	1992	18	.pdf	application/pdf	8128	345	51	19 Put simply, this is the difference between internal variables generated by programs within the insti- Book and Serial Funds 131 tution and external variables such as the price of library materials or the citation characteristics of the individual discip- lines.20 A large variety of variables are in use in library allocation formulas, but a handful have dearly become dominant, including number of students or num- ber of student credit hours, cost of mate- rials, number of faculty, circulation by department or subject area, number of courses offered by a department, and the number of students majoring in a de- partment or subject area. College and Research Libraries Reconciling Pragmatism, Equity, and Need in the Formula Allocation of 5ook and Serial Funds Charles B. Lowry The literature of formula allocation has several central themes which the matrix formula described here addresses.	cache/crl-14702.pdf	txt/crl-14702.txt