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标题：Using GIS to Measure In-Library Book-Use Behavior
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作者：Jingfeng Xia
期刊名称：Information Technology and Libraries
印刷版ISSN：2163-5226
出版年度：2004
卷号：23
期号：4
页码：184-191
语种：English
出版社：Library Information Technology Association
摘要：This article is an attempt to develop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techology into an analytical tool for examining the relationships between the height of the bookshelves and the behavior of library readers in utilizing books within a library. The tool would contain a database to store book-use information and some GIS maps to represent bookshelves. Upon analyzing the data stored in the database, different frequencies of book use across bookshelf layers are displayed on the maps. The tool would provide a wonderful means of visualization through which analysts can quickly realize the spatial distribution of books used in a library. This article reveals that readers tend to pull books out of the bookshelf layers that are easily reachable by human eyes and hands, and thus opens some issues for librarians to reconsider the management of library collections.