Approaching librarianship from the data: using bibliomining for evidence-based librarianship

Given the current lack of systematic studies in librarianship, it can be difficult to do proper traditional Evidence-Based Librarianship This article starts by deconstructing Evidence-Based Librarianship down to the representations of the users involved. The bibliomining process, or the combination of data warehousing, data mining, and bibliometrics, is used as a framework to build a different path to EBL. Bibliominingbased Evidence-Based Librarianship is not appropriate for all topics; however, when the artifacts of library use can be gathered and explored, this method can provide a different path to reach the goals of EBL.