Facilitating resource allocation decision through bibliomining: the case of UTM's library

Library has vastly developed and demand from the users, institutions, international organization needs and technology advancement has changed the library planning and decision making approach in many ways including library budgeting, human resource and infrastructure allocations. This research descr...

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Main Author: Karno, Md. Razib
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Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling my-utm-ep.781942018-07-28T06:26:21Z Facilitating resource allocation decision through bibliomining: the case of UTM's library 2015-01 Karno, Md. Razib HD30.213 Management information systems. Decision support systems Library has vastly developed and demand from the users, institutions, international organization needs and technology advancement has changed the library planning and decision making approach in many ways including library budgeting, human resource and infrastructure allocations. This research described (a) the investigation undertaken to examine the characteristics of data from data reservoirs regarding user/patron information and circulation information. (b) The information seeking to explore the patterns and trends among these data reservoirs using data mining analysis with about 957,224 borrowing history and overall 31,052 registered readers and 139,195 title author of books from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia library since 2008 to 2010. (c) To study how constructed patterns and trends generate informed decisions on resource allocation for circulation function by using cluster analysis, frequency statistics, averages and aggregates and market basket analysis algorithm. This thesis highlights the finding of a research using data mining technique (CRISP-DM) to explore the potentials of the bibliographic data of an academic library. With nearly 1 million records of collection in various formats, the Library of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia has been chosen as the case study for the research. The data mining technique was adopted to explore the relationship among statistically patterned and clustered bibliographic data. Bibliomining are tools that can visualize how libraries manage their costs, staff activity, customer service, user needs, marketing, popular books, circulation, reference transaction, quality of collection, educational programs etc. Similar data mining techniques are suggested to be employed in different library settings and even enterprises as to make more effective use of organizational resources. 2015-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78194/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78194/1/MdRazibKarnoMFM2015.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:98792 masters Universiti Teknologi Mara, Faculty of Management Faculty of Management
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection UTM Institutional Repository
language English
topic HD30.213 Management information systems
Decision support systems
spellingShingle HD30.213 Management information systems
Decision support systems
Karno, Md. Razib
Facilitating resource allocation decision through bibliomining: the case of UTM's library
description Library has vastly developed and demand from the users, institutions, international organization needs and technology advancement has changed the library planning and decision making approach in many ways including library budgeting, human resource and infrastructure allocations. This research described (a) the investigation undertaken to examine the characteristics of data from data reservoirs regarding user/patron information and circulation information. (b) The information seeking to explore the patterns and trends among these data reservoirs using data mining analysis with about 957,224 borrowing history and overall 31,052 registered readers and 139,195 title author of books from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia library since 2008 to 2010. (c) To study how constructed patterns and trends generate informed decisions on resource allocation for circulation function by using cluster analysis, frequency statistics, averages and aggregates and market basket analysis algorithm. This thesis highlights the finding of a research using data mining technique (CRISP-DM) to explore the potentials of the bibliographic data of an academic library. With nearly 1 million records of collection in various formats, the Library of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia has been chosen as the case study for the research. The data mining technique was adopted to explore the relationship among statistically patterned and clustered bibliographic data. Bibliomining are tools that can visualize how libraries manage their costs, staff activity, customer service, user needs, marketing, popular books, circulation, reference transaction, quality of collection, educational programs etc. Similar data mining techniques are suggested to be employed in different library settings and even enterprises as to make more effective use of organizational resources.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Karno, Md. Razib
author_facet Karno, Md. Razib
author_sort Karno, Md. Razib
title Facilitating resource allocation decision through bibliomining: the case of UTM's library
title_short Facilitating resource allocation decision through bibliomining: the case of UTM's library
title_full Facilitating resource allocation decision through bibliomining: the case of UTM's library
title_fullStr Facilitating resource allocation decision through bibliomining: the case of UTM's library
title_full_unstemmed Facilitating resource allocation decision through bibliomining: the case of UTM's library
title_sort facilitating resource allocation decision through bibliomining: the case of utm's library
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Mara, Faculty of Management
granting_department Faculty of Management
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78194/1/MdRazibKarnoMFM2015.pdf
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