واقع استفادة المكتبات الجامعية من تحليلات البيانات الضخمة Big Data Analytics (BDA)‎ في تطوير خدمات المعلومات و اتخاذ القرار : دراسة حالة لمكتبة كلية الهندسة

Abstract EN

Today, information institutions especially university libraries, are facing the inevitability of dealing with the big data that emerged as a result of the digital boom which increases in size and quality due to the use of various information technologies by these libraries.

Therefore, The faculty of Engineering library is concerned with dealing with the big data in many activities such as the acquisition of various information sources, the availability of searching in the available databases on the Knowledge Bank, the statistical analytics of the used data , the managing of researching data by many tools , the use of social media and other.

Based on the above, the study sought to determine the real benefits of big data analytics in the library of the Faculty of Engineering in Alexandria, in addition identifying how to benefit from big data analytics in developing information services provided to users and supporting decision-making, as well as identifying the tasks performed by them to benefit from big data analytics, also identifying the skills needed for them to deal with it.

The study also sought to identify the difficulties face the librarian in dealing with big data ,The study relied on the case study approach in order to look more closely at the extent to which the libraries of the faculty of Engineering benefit from analytics of big data through personal interviews, and a questionnaire that covers the basic aspects of the study, Among the most important findings of the study: the various areas of benefit from big data analytics, as big data analytics helped to predict the evolving and renewable needs of the users from the library, through the users data coming to the library by multiple communication tools between them and the library.