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An approach to library circulation control based on the motivational factors underlying the borrowers' noncompliance with book withdrawal procedures resulted in the installation of a self-service charge-out system.The number of books withdrawn without being checked out and the number of borrowers who admitted to this practice decline significantly.The statistical procedure (chi square) used to analyze these data tests the null hypothesis that the new system has no effect and that the results are merely due to chance.The conclusion is that there is less than one chance in a thousand of obtaining these statistical values if the system were not actually effective.LIBRARY CIRCULATION CONTROL has traditionally depended on procedures which policed and restricted the borrowers' activity. 1 Surveillance and measures which force the borrower to comply with the rules comprise the modus operandi for keeping track of library holdings which leave the library premises.Innovations in control have relied on technological devices 2 which contribute to increased costs of operation and which seem to stimulate the borrowers to new heights of ingenuity in efforts to outwit the system.3 Loretto Heights College, located in D enver, Colorado, is .afour-year liberal arts college primarily for women.The enrollment is about 900.A library survey in 1968 disclosed that 41 percent of the respondents admitted
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