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Based upon the brief information supplied in the article, "A Guide for Beginning Bibliographers, " 1 the citation technique was utilized, on an experimental basis, by the staff of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba, Canada. While the results indicated that "this technique actually does measure the depth of the collection and consequently, would constitute a valid evaluation tool if the problems encountered could be overcome, " 2 that study also properly identified some of the problems inherent in the use of the instrument. However, other difficulties simply result from unidentified assumptions and inappropriate expectations of the uses of the method. Unfortunately, some of the difficulties noted are derived from the fact that the original article provided only a description of the method, but did not delineate its implementation. Perhaps some clarification of uses and limitations would be aided by a review of the citation technique of collection evaluation procedures (CTCE). In 1979 the University Libraries of the State University of New York at Buffalo included approximately two million volumes to its shelves. These volumes served instructional and research needs primarily of graduate and professional educational programs in the schools of the humanities, social sciences, physical and health sciences (medicine, nursing, dentistry), education, and law. The University Libraries have been, since 1964, a U.S. documents depository, and a depository for New York State documents, supplemented by a complete collection of UN publications, documents of the European Economic Community as well as extensive holdings of British and Canadian documents. The microform holdings, some 600,000 items, include documents, newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and books. The use of the citation technique of collection evaluation method has been limited to the sociology, political science, and social work parts of the University Libraries' collections. While the "stated interests" of each department or school are expressed in the collection development policy in terms of collecting intensity, priority 1 (comprehensive level-regarded as the level necessary for creating or maintaining a ''special collection'') to priority 5 (minimal level-only highly selective purchases, "inadequate in quantity and variety to support undergraduate instruction"), the selection of materials also considers the needs of other departments, schools, and faculties that require, for example, publications with a sociological orientation that may not be included in the ''stated interests of the Sociology Department.'' For the purposes of the evaluation study, those "stated interests" -sociological theory, urban sociology, small group, medical sociology, etc., that are included in the categories of priority 2 (extensive research level) and priority 3 (teaching and research) were used to establish some of the study's limits. From the Choice list of 509 outstanding books of the year (March 1978 to February 1979) that "represented works that should be considered for priority purchase," five titles approximating the'' stated interests'' of the Sociology Department were selected. From each, 20 titles were taken from different and staggered sections of the bibliographies to generate 100 references, representing a variety of critical ~ibliographies, to books,

The Lopez or Citation Technique of In-Depth Collection Evaluation Explicated (Research Note)