[SigLT-L] Seeking ITAL submissions - Bibliomining: Data Mining for Libraries special issue

[Scott Nicholson]

Call for Participation – Special Issue of Information Technology and
Libraries on Bibliomining: Data Mining for Libraries

The December 2004 issue of Information Technology and Libraries
(http://www.lita.org/ital/), the peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the
ALA’s Library and Information Technology Association, will be dedicated
to the bibliomining process and will be guest edited by Scott Nicholson,
faculty member at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies.  

Bibliomining is the combination of data mining, bibliometrics,
statistics, and reporting tools used to extract patterns of
behavior-based artifacts from library systems. The bibliomining process
involves the larger issues of data warehousing, standards for library
transactions, and privacy of patron information.  More information about
bibliomining can be found at http://bibliomining.org.

ITAL is seeking articles about data warehousing in libraries, data
mining in libraries (theory or application), or applicable works about
privacy of transactional library data from ethical or legal standpoints
in either traditional or digital library settings.  Scholars,
practitioners, and library school students are all welcome to submit
articles.

Authors interested should submit a title and abstract no longer than 100
words by March 15th.  Full articles (typically 3000-5000 words in
length) are due by June 15th, 2003.

Questions and submissions should be directed to Scott Nicholson at
srnichol@syr.edu.