Challenges of remaining relevant to library users, particularly i) meeting the users’ information needs in the fabric of the user experience, for example, teaching and learning activities, scientific research, and scholarly communications; ii) promoting the most sophisticated intellectual inquiry, advanced thinking, the teaching and learning of the 21 st -century skills, knowledge advancement, research output, and decision making; and iii) linking of library resources, services, expertise, tools and infrastructure with research, teaching and learning objectives, processes, and outcome measures.
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Customer Relationship Management as an Imperative for Academic Libraries: A Conceptual Model-121 E-Agent Framework
Amanda Xu (New York University, USA) and Sharon Q. Yang (Rider University, USA)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 34
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6547-7.ch003
Abstract
This chapter proposes a conceptual model, the 121 e-Agent Framework, for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in academic libraries. Linked data and Semantic Web are the core components of this model. The implementation of the Framework will enable the participating U.S. academic libraries to reach out to their user communities through systematic customer group identification, differentiation, and interaction. The main contributions of the chapter are 1) applying Semantic Web technologies for CRM in academic libraries using the 121 e-Agent Framework, 2) defining the relevance challenges of CRM for academic libraries, 3) adding trust management to the linked data layer with a touch of tagging, categorizing, query log analysis, and social ranking as part of the underlying structure for distributed customer data filtering on the Web in CRM applications, and 4) making the approach extensible to address the challenges of CRM in other fields.