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The purpose of this investigation is to show the feasibility of spectral methods in the field of information science, in particular for the analysis of library circulation data. Using the software package MATLAB we applied the discrete Fourier transform to obtain frequency information about the noisy time series of circulation data. Over a time span of two academic years we could clearly detect...