A Comparative Study of User’s Information Seeking Behavior in e-Book Recommendation System
Yi-Shin Lin, Ko-Chiu Wu, Saiau-Yue Tsau · International Journal of Information and Education Technology · 2017
E-book reading has become increasingly popular, the library began to provide joyful and interactive multimedia e-book recommendation system.The purpose of this study is to understand the characteristics of information seeking behavior of different users.Based on the back-end database of New Taipei City Library's e-book wall, we collected 655 users' borrowing materials and analyzed the knowledge keywords by text mining method to make a comparative study.With the expansion of library services, the purpose of the library is no longer limited to the academic orientation, and we also observed the emergence of entertainment and leisure-oriented readers.Understanding users' information seeking characteristics in e-book recommendation system will be conducive to the development of intelligent library and provide a reference for the system design.