I not sure what people think the trouble with use studies is.
Of course, I don't believe that browse stats by themselves are enough
to base collection development decisions on, but in conjunction with
check-out stats, they can certainly give one a notion of the
"usefulness" of a title.  If current issues and bound volumes of a
journal title have been browsed once and checked-out twice in a 3
year period and the title costs over $1,000.00 per year, then I think
one has a reasonable case for cancelling that sucker.  What is the
trouble with that?

Donna Lively
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