Introduction and Overview

• Who is Scott Nicholson?

• Three Acts

• Act I: Setting the Stage

  • Types of data produced through library services
  • Data warehousing and Patron Privacy

• Act II: Thickening the Plot

  • Methods of Analysis, Data Mining

• Act III: Considering from Afar

  • The Bibliomining Process
  • Bibliomining as Library Evaluation
  • Evidence-Based Librarianship