Title :
Visual Analysis of Usage Efficiency of Library Books
Author :
Kan Liu ; Ping Liu
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf., Zhongnan Univ. of Econ. & Law, Wuhan
Abstract :
Nowadays the amount of books available in libraries has grown rapidly. Readers may find it difficult to decide which book(s) should be borrowed. The log data of loan history is a good source to find popular books that readers may be interested. This paper describes our efforts in exploring various visual techniques to analyze the borrowing history of the books in a university´s library. The visual analysis provides effective way to extract the book usage information and find breakthrough insights. Initial experiment has demonstrated that the proposed approach benefit users in selecting books more effectively.
Keywords :
academic libraries; borrowing history; library book; loan history; university library; visual analysis; Books; Computer graphics; Data mining; Data visualization; History; Image analysis; Information analysis; Information management; Information retrieval; Software libraries;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation, 2008. CGIV '08. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3359-9
DOI :
10.1109/CGIV.2008.32
