id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14065 Bensman, Stephen J. Journal Collection Management as a Cumulative Advantage Process 1985-01-01 17 .pdf application/pdf 12166 493 52 The paper argues that these laws are operative not only in library usage but also in the social stratification of scholarship, and it poses the hypothesis that the concentration of journal usage in academic libraries is par- tially a reflection of the process of the formation of scholarly elites. This study involved the anal- ysis of monograph usage at the Hillman Library, a central research library empha- sizing the humanities and social sciences, as well as of journal usage at six branch sci- ence and engineering libraries. cache/crl-14065.pdf txt/crl-14065.txt