id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14449 Kaser, David Quantitative Criteria for Adequacy of Academic Library Collections: A Reprint of a C&RL Classic 1989-03-01 1 .pdf application/pdf 529 26 59 A paper reporting their deliberations was published in CRL in 1965, and for a quarter of a century that paper has played a semi- nal role in our thinking regarding quanti- tative standards for academic libraries. That experi- ence led us in 1959 to adopt in ACRL' s first set of college library standards the figure of 50,000 as the minimum number of vol- umes that every college library should own. cache/crl-14449.pdf txt/crl-14449.txt