Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Developing a novel recommender network-based ranking mechanism for library book acquisition. |
| Authors: |
Wu, Fan1 misfw@mis.ccu.edu.tw, Hu, Ya-Han1 yahan.hu@mis.ccu.edu.tw, Wang, Ping-Rong1 misyhu@ccu.edu.tw |
| Source: |
Electronic Library. 2017, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p50-68. 19p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Academic libraries, *Bibliometrics, *Collection development in libraries, *Decision making, *Data analysis, Literature, Statistics |
| Geographic Terms: |
Taiwan |
| Abstract: |
Purpose Most academic libraries provide book recommendation services to enable readers to recommend books to the libraries. To facilitate decision-making in book acquisition, this study aimed to develop a method to determine the ranking of the recommended books based on the recommender network.Design/methodology/approach The recommender network was conducted to establish relationships among book recommenders and their similar readers by using circulation records. Furthermore, social computing techniques were used to evaluate the degree of representativeness of the recommenders and subsequently applied as a criterion to rank the recommended books. Empirical studies were performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed ranking system. The Spearman’s correlation coefficients between the proposed ranking system and the ranking obtained using reader circulation statistics were used as performance measure.Findings The ranking calculated using the proposed ranking mechanism was highly and moderately correlated to the ranking obtained using reader circulation statistics. The ranking of recommended books by the librarians was moderately and poorly correlated to the ranking calculated using reader circulation statistics.Practical implications The book recommender can be used to improve the accuracy of book recommendations.Originality/value This study is the first that considers the recommender network on library book acquisition. The results also show that the proposed ranking mechanism can facilitate effective book-acquisition decisions in libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
