大学キャンパスの中心と図書館の立地

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It is an important problem for the availability of an academic library whether a library is accessible for its clientele or not. But as a library collection grows larger and larger, it becomes more and more difficult to find the appropriate place for the library to build new large building. This paper tries to decide the center of a campus arithmetically, and examines the way of measuring the degree of nearness between the center and the library. The center of the gravity of population, which is computed in the census, is applied as one of the way to decide the center of a campus. The point which minimize the traffic of university members is also considered. To indicate the degree of nearness from the center, centrality index and centrality deviation value are devised. These ideas are applied to actual universities and co-value lines are drawn on campus maps.