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crl-11502	Axford, H. William	Rider Revisited	1962-06-30	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1699	74	78	W I L L I A M A X F O R D IN 1940 Fremont Rider, then librarian of Wesleyan University, published a study which showed that, taken as a whole and on the average, American col- lege and university libraries tended to double their holdings every fifteen years.1 Given the facts that in 1900 Harvard University was the only university in the United States possessing over 500,000 vol- umes in its library and that there were 25 universities listing over a million vol- umes in their libraries by 1960, it seems appropriate to check and see how far Rider's axiom of library growth is still operative. I n the accompanying table are listed the university libraries with over a mil- lion volumes in 1960, their holdings in 1946, the number of volumes added dur- ing the fifteen-year period, and the per- centage increase in library holdings.	cache/crl-11502.pdf	txt/crl-11502.txt