Abstract
Maintaining reliable records of book losses in a university library is a difficult and time-consuming activity. It is the responsibility of the librarian to find an efficient method to monitor losses. A history of the various methods used by Purdue University's General Library over the past twenty-five years is presented, from a complete inventory to various sampling methods. This paper is a revision of Monitoring Book Losses in a Large Academic Library: Four Methods which was presented to The Four State Universities Circulation Counterparts Group and appeared in Research in Education in November, 1981.
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