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Tyranny of Distance: Understanding Academic Library Browsing by Refining the Neighbour Effect

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Browsing is a part of book seeking that is important to readers, poorly understood, and ill supported in digital libraries. In earlier work, we attempted to understand the impact of browsing on book borrowing by examining whether books near other loaned books were more likely to be loaned themselves, a phenomenon we termed the neighbour effect. In this paper we further examine the neighbour effect, looking specifically at size, interaction with search and topic boundaries, increasing our understanding of browsing behaviour.

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This paper contains information from OhioLINK Circulation Data (http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/ohiolink/circulation.htm), made available by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and OhioLINK under the ODC Attribution License (http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/ohiolink/odcby.htm). Travel to the conference was partially funded by a Google Travel Scholarship administered by the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne.

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    Dana McKay & Shanton Chang

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McKay, D., Buchanan, G., Chang, S. (2015). Tyranny of Distance: Understanding Academic Library Browsing by Refining the Neighbour Effect. In: Kapidakis, S., Mazurek, C., Werla, M. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_21

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