Member structure and sharing behavior: Social network analysis of CALIS online cataloging data in China

Publication date: Available online 11 January 2020Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Jiayou Ding, Shuangshuang Yu, Wei Xu, Haining Wang, Zhuozhuo LiAbstractThe active participation of members is of great importance to the sustainable development of the information resource sharing system. This paper uses China Academic Library &Information System (CALIS) 2018 Chinese online cataloging data to build a sharing network. It employs social network analysis to uncover the reality and explain the effect of members' participation in CALIS co-construction and sharing system. It is found that it presents a long-tailed distribution in the sharing behavior of CALIS members and that the benefit of the whole CALIS sharing system will be further extended with the continuous increase of CALIS members. The central libraries set up by CALIS play a central and intermediary role in sharing network. However, there are certain differences in their roles due to their permissions, region, and other factors. At the same time, regional imbalances and disparities persist in the members' sharing activities. This paper also explores the path of using social network methods to study the member structure and sharing behavior of information resource sharing system.
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research