id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13064 Turner, Stephen J. A Formula for Estimating Collection Use 1977-11-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 2161 127 66 The estimate will not give us an indica- tion of the rate value, but it will allow us to compute the percentage of books that actually are being used by the pa- trons for circulation. The librarian proceeds by conduct- ing a random sampling of books from the stacks and circulation and then cal- culates the proportionate number of books having last-circulation dates in each sample. cache/crl-13064.pdf txt/crl-13064.txt