Constructing linkage between libraries and up-to-date news
Pages | 301-313 |
Published date | 20 June 2016 |
Date | 20 June 2016 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-11-2015-0109 |
Author | Wei Yu,Junpeng Chen |
Subject Matter | Library & information science,Librarianship/library management,Library technology |
Constructing linkage between
libraries and up-to-date news
Wei Yu
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Service,
Information Management School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, and
Junpeng Chen
School of Information Engineering,
Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China
Abstract
Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to construct the linkage between libraries and up-to-date news.
This study developed a system to recommend libraries’resources to those daily news readers who are
interested in the topics of the target news. The analysis of experiments results served as the reference
for the development and improvement of linking libraries’resources with other web resources.
Design/methodology/approach –Up-to-date news were gathered through the news feeds to make
the integration with the libraries’records. In task 1, the libraries’records were linked and recommended
to the target libraries’records which are of the same topics. In task 2, the system aimed to find the
relevant libraries’records for target news. Three recommendation methods were compared in both
tasks to find the most effective approach to the system.
Findings –Experiment results showed that: at first, in task 1, the system can assign the libraries’
records of the related topics effectively; second, in task 2, the recommending system can obtain a
satisfied recall hit rate through human evaluation. Therefore, regarding the popularity of the daily
news online, the linkage and recommendation with the libraries’resources can increase the visibility of
the libraries’resources and eventually promote the information consuming in libraries.
Practical implications –The authors have confirmed, using three matrix factorization methods,
that weighted matrix factorization used in the libraries’records recommendation system, could achieve
better performance than the other two. Based on the research, the libraries could incorporate the online
news and libraries’resources in practice.
Originality/value –To increase the visibility and promote information consuming of libraries, this
study proposed a novel method to construct the linkage between library and up-to-date news. The
results of data analysis indicate that recommendation of libraries resources through the daily news can
achieve effective performance. Thus, it can be inferred that the research results of this study are
representative and have practical values in real world practice.
Keywords Library services, Web resources, Information technologies,
Libraries resources recommendation, Up-to-date news, WMF
Paper type Research paper
Introduction
Over the last decade,libraries have experienceda steady decline in the number of users of
the online services, which in turn translates into a substantial decrease in the number
of information consumers who use library resources for their information needs.
Compared to the web searchengine and the news website, libraries may be too far away
from our everyday life: people pay more attention to online news that will bring visible
influence to our lives. Reportedly, the great majorityof the information seeking activities
start from search engines such as Google instead of library websites (De, 2005).
Though the daily news can bring fresh information and hot spots, it can also cause
confusion for people who have no background information or domain knowle dge about
the news. To help people grasp the gist of the news article, Wei and Gao (2014)
Library Hi Tech
Vol. 34 No. 2, 2016
pp. 301-313
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DOI 10.1108/LHT-11-2015-0109
Received 17 November 2015
Revised 5 February 2016
15 March 2016
Accepted 6 April 2016
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