Relevance of Data Mining in Digital Library

Data mining involves significant process of identifying the extraction of hidden predictive information from vast array of databases and it is an authoritative new technology with potentiality to facilitate the Libraries and Information Centers to focus on the most important information in their data warehouses. It is a viable tool to predict future trends and behaviors in the field of library and information service for deducing proactive, knowledge-driven decisions. Mechanized, prospective analyses of data mining move beyond the analyses of past events provided by retrospective tools typical of decision support systems. Wide spread database use including its explosive growth in their sizes precipitated to a mounted concerns for the libraries and information centres especially in a digital environment. In such an alarming situation, data mining tools resolved the problems in the service segments. It has become indispensable in view of the proliferated growth of digital resources and especially its scientific management, organization, retrieval and timely dissemination with the help of technology to the users