Big Data in Libraries, Definition, and Importance

Document Type : Scientific Articles

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Senior Specialists - Rare Books, Library of Alexandria, Egypt

Abstract

The analysis of big data is one of the most important sources of information that have appeared in recent years in various fields of production and service, including libraries, and despite its spread, the spread of studies around it, it has not been accompanied by worthy follow-up from Arab libraries, Arab researchers, especially with the frequency of the results of these studies in quantity, Importance the benefits extracted from analyzing big data, whereas the process of analyzing big data is still new, unconventional and not prevalent in our Arab libraries, our Arab research, it was necessary for us to identify, disclose, indicate the importance to keep pace with the technological progress, requirements for needed implementations to us, The aspects of benefiting from it in our Arab libraries, the difficulties that impede the application, and the role of librarians in the face of big data.
The researcher used the documentary research method represented in reviewing the published intellectual production and searching in relevant previous studies using the descriptive-analytical method to analyze the content.

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