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crl-12129	Christ, John M.	Functional Analysis and Library Science	1969-04-30	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2955	142	47	College and Research Libraries JOHN M. CHRIST Functional Analysis and Library Science Functional analysis is a tool with significant positive implications for library research because of: (1) its facility for investigating the social system of which the librar.y is an integral part; and (2) its direction towards heuristic considerations and metaphysical theory long neg- lected in library science. The sociological approach to function- al analysis has a greater degree of rele- vance for library research than the mechanistic approach because the meth- od is more closely related to the type of phenomena and social system which comprises the library as an institution.	cache/crl-12129.pdf	txt/crl-12129.txt