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Volume 65 (2015) Issue 10 Pages 412-417

Data Analysis for Library Marketing : Listening to What Data Say, and Improving Services(<Special feature>Information service improvement based on Data Analysis)

Toshiro Minami

Library services need to be renovated. Most people are able to access to whatever information whenever they need. Thus they have little motivation to visit libraries anymore. Also, the needs themselves vary vigorously. It is impossible for libraries to cope with such a big change of their environment. It is an effective solution to collect data on the patrons, analyze them, and modeling the patrons' needs. In this paper, based on such recognition, we discuss what types of data to collect, how to analyze them, and what kind of information can be obtained in such a process. Our discussions are based on the view of services marketing in order to appropriately recognize the current status of libraries as services organization.

Volume 63 (2013) Issue 2 Pages 51-56

Log analysis of e-resources usage(<Special feature>Logs for practical use)

Sho SATO

With the growth of e-resources including e-journals, the log analysis has increasingly been used as a valid research method. Although it is useful to grasp (understand) the user behaviors that analyzing the usage log data with its comprehensive record of user access, it is difficult to explore the users' intention or motivation. So the combination with other methods is desirable. Bearing different characteristics from citation data, the log data also have come to draw the attention in the field of bibliometrics. However, it's not suitable for research assessment because intentional data manipulation can be easily performed. In Japan, unlike some other countries, large-scale log analysis studies on e-journals have not yet been carried out, which remains a task to be addressed in future.

Volume 65 (2015) Issue 10 Pages 424-429

Improvement of library operations by log analysis of the link resolver(<Special feature>Information service improvement based on Data Analysis)

Takanori Hayashi

By analyzing the access log of the link resolver, it is possible to grasp the service well used, it is possible to lead to improvement in the user's behavior grasping and services. In this paper, in order to contribute to the improvement of library operations through log analysis of the link resolver, it showed the method of log analysis as an example the SFX. Specifically, obtained using a statistical output function that SFX has, aggregate number of bibliographic databases what the user try to get article by, and journal title that search from a specific bibliographic database were not available online. This makes it possible to clarify the aspects of utilization that links information resources that cannot be grasped only usage statistics of electronic journals, it can contribute to improve operations.

Volume 60 (2010) Issue 6 Pages 236-241

Development of a recommendation system to promote of utilization of libraries(<Special feature>Data mining methodologies and application for libraries)

Tetsuro AOTO

In late years various information are provided on Internet, which causes the decrease of the students learning by themselves using correct information. In addition, there isn't enough information which book is necessary for their classes. These are also the reasons the decrease of the users of libraries. Therefore, we decided to develop a new book-recommendation system to increase library users. In this paper, we report the developed system which recommend books for students based on the information of the syllabus which are familiar to them, and evaluate it.

Volume 62 (2012) Issue 10 Pages 422-427

Business archives as assets : the need to work out value-added use and some further issues(<Special feature>Current states of the Archives in Japan)

Yuko MATSUZAKI

Institutional (in-house) business archives are assets that hold value for a number of reasons. Currently, efforts are being made to enhance the value of in-house archives and contribute toward improving the quality of the management of parent organizations. Further, there are some issues that are yet to be solved: the lack of recordkeeping that combines archive and records management; a perception gap with respect to the public accessing in-house business archives; differences in ideas about the appraisal policy that are linked to archival principles; how archivists should be trained and educated in order for them to contribute toward adding value to archive management; and the difficulties in managing archives and records of overseas subsidiaries.

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2019 Volume 69 Issue 3

Seminar report INFOSTA West Japan Committee
Column: Legal aspects relating to data utilization in library Masashi SAWADA
Introduction of User Activity Study in College Library: Experiments and Analysis Using IoT Devices Kentaroh TOYODA, Yumiko IGARASHI, Hoshika IMAI, Iwao SASASE
Introduction to “Analyzing Library Patrons by Data” Hiroe NAGANO

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