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crl-16567	White, Bruce	Citations and Circulation Counts: Data Sources for Monograph Deselection in Research Library Collections	2017	13	.pdf	application/pdf	8209	235	42	In the 324 range, it was found that many book titles ended with date ranges that citing documents tended to omit: the book Tory and Whig the struggle in the constituencies, 1701–1715 was cited only 7 times under its full title but 12 times as Tory and Whig the struggle in the constituencies. The Association of Research Libraries SPEC Kit 337: Print Retention Deci- sion Making noted that “Citation counts are often used as a criterion” in decisions on deselection; but no specific questions on the topic were asked in the survey of American academic libraries—and the technique barely rates a mention in the summary of re- sults—while the use of circulation data is noted in nearly all of the reports.13 A number of studies on the use of citation data in collection management relates to the analysis of citations by staff or students of a specific institution,14 and these provide useful insights into the value of the collection in specific cases; but the absence of a standard method- ology makes comparisons between these studies difficult.15 Detailed local studies of this kind are labor-intensive; while they can reveal rich insights into the use of library collections by scholars, they are essentially retrospective and not well adapted to the needs of a deselection exercise, which needs to be able to make determinations about all of the books in a collection, most of which will not have been cited by local authors.	cache/crl-16567.pdf	txt/crl-16567.txt