International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
- 제6권1호
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- Pages.5-8
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- 2014
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- 2288-4920(pISSN)
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- 2288-4939(eISSN)
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An Attempt to Find Potential Group of Patrons from Library's Loan Records
- Minami, Toshiro (Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences, Kyushu University Library) ;
- Baba, Kensuke (Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences, Kyushu University Library)
- 투고 : 2013.12.09
- 심사 : 2014.02.14
- 발행 : 2014.02.28
초록
Social networking services that connect a person to other people are attracting our attention and various types of on-the-network services are provided. Library has been playing a role of social media by providing with materials such as books and magazines, and with a place for reading, studying, getting lectures, etc. In this paper, we present a method for finding candidates of groups of the library's patrons who share interest areas by utilizing the loan records, which are obtainable by every library. Such a homogeneous group can become a candidate for a study group, a community for exchange ideas, and other activity group. We apply the method to a collection of loan records of a university library, find some problem to be solved, and propose measures for more detailed solutions. Even though the potential group finding problem still remains a lot of problems to be solved, its potential importance is very high and thus to be studies even more for future applications.