The article summarizes the results of a bibliometric exercise carried out by staff and students of the Department of Librananship, Victoria University of Wellington. References in 12 bibliographical journals published in the late 1970s were analysed by form, date and country of publication, in order to test various hypotheses. The group results showed a citation pattern similar to studies in the fields of English literature and history with considerable variation from Price's 'norm of scholarships' in citation practice. They also suggest that citation analysis alone gives an inadequate measure of the use made by biblio graphers of their sources.